LMFAO! I hear ya there!

Sorry to say that I don't remember what brand of cheese it was the first time I tried that years ago, but I can tell you what brand not to use as I just basically confirmed they use plastic wrap, Great Value.

I never did try rolling or smoking a joint with either test though. Being naturally skeptical about the random advice, I only tested just burning the wrap by itself. Weed costs too much to waste on experiments ya know haha!

I can help you on that.

The brand is Trip. It works alright (both for rolling and smoking), but there are better paper (e.g. Raw).

I'd consider it as mostly gimmick. Again, not a bad product overall, tho.

Upvoted for username haha! Good luck, test first..

That just might depend on the brand and what sort of glue they used, if any. I dunno, the handful of times I smoked clear doobies with my friends, they held together just fine. 🤷‍♂️

They also don't seem to burn nearly as well. IME they always needed to be relit multiple times.

I dunno how things are today, but not too many years ago if you searched Google Images for blue cheese, some of the images it would bring up would actually be nuggets of weed haha!

Ha ha in France they just stopped giving you straws. The paper cup for the drinks just said on it something like "To drink, remove lid and lift cup. You're not an infant " lol

Now they have those reusable cups and fry holders, which are suspiciously smaller than the paper ones

Only thing I noticed that was single use plastic was the little tub of sauce

Ah the, "I'll have a diet coke with this Big Mag, Cheesecake bites, large French Fries" mindset.

Don't forget the gallon of gas you burned in the drive thru 👍

Yes but that was bio-degradable plastic. It will only last 10,000 years in a landfill instead of eternity.

WHAT?!???!?

really? cool!

No no, you see, it's because libertarians are dumb

Looking at the thumbnail, I assumed this was going to be a joke about the cheese being essentially plastic

Was just about to say this. A decent amount of brands do use paper instead of plastic to separate individual slices, but I’ve only seen it with real cheese. Never with American cheese

Also before anyone says something, no, American cheese is not real cheese. In fact, it contains less than 50% cheese. It is officially considered a “pasteurized processed American cheese food”.

Also it’s only good for grilled cheese, bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, or melting onto leftover spaghetti. I will die on this hill.

Might dry out

Try a good deli-style American. So much better than Kraft Singles. Much lower milk content, so it’s more solid. Not individually wrapped, but individually sliced. Higher cheddar and Colby content, so its flavor is better. Still melts beautifully. Best burger cheese out there, IMO.

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American cheese is specifically designed to melt well, I don't know what you're talking about

You must really be doing something wrong if your cheese doesn't mostly melt, because this post of mine from like last week actually came from a block of real mild cheddar...

https://lemmy.world/post/7427560

Uh... Yeah... I've experienced homelessness throughout my teenage years and... Uh... It really makes the things "normal" people complain about or stress over seem small and insignificant.

We'll reach them once everyone dies in the hunger wars of 2088

LEGO isn't made to be thrown out. Plastic straws and bags are.

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Where I live the only fruits that don't have stickers are tomatoes.

I always go for sharp cheddar instead which I feel is close if not better... or Bleu cheese, although that definitely is crumbly.

Just like the cheeseburger your mother could barely afford.

Forreal haha. I just call them Kraft Singles bc I refuse to acknowledge it as cheese.

The name brand in the US is Kraft Singles, but at least here that type of orange cheese is just referred to as American regardless of brand

I've never heard of Chester cheese. There's Cheshire cheese, but that's quite crumbly and wouldn't hold up to being packaged like this. You might also be thinking of cheddar. A genuine cheddar would be too brittle, but in modern marketing, cheddar is often shorthand for any homogenous, yellow cheese. So this stuff might be described as cheddar on the packet.

I think this stuff is more of a cheese-flavoured sauce, that they inject into the bags and leave to set. It's more an invention of the convenience food industry, than any culinary tradition.

Here's the weird thing about that:

Sargento Colby Jack at Walmart, 34.7 cents/ounce

Kraft Singles at 31.1 cents/ounce

That's an egregious example because you can find better sliced cheese (store brand) for much cheaper than Sargento even, but still disturbing to see how expensive those singles really are.

Public outrage from one, probably staged, viral video.

There's a disturbing number of viral videos that are downright animal abuse against turtles just for views.

Idk what that other guy is on but our grocery deli has American cheese they slice themselves, it's not much more expensive than craft

Kraft has “Deluxe American” cheese slices that aren’t individually wrapped and have a better flavor and texture.

I think by Good American cheese they meant something more like this:

https://www.landolakes.com/...

It is very much a different thing than Kraft Singles, you can get however much or little of it (or various competitors) you want anyplace that has deli meats, and the per-pound cost is not that much more, last I checked.

Although some kinds of cheddar might be made in the US, I don't think Vermont Cheddar is what anyone usually has in mind when they say "Deli American Cheese."

I've had no problem getting a good melt on burgers with "good" American, FWIW.

Most block cheeses with a good fat and moisture content will melt well when shredded off the block right before you intend to use it. The pre-shredded or pre-sliced stuff has additives like starch in and on it to stop it from sticking together in the package and melting during transit, which prevents a good melt. Get yourself a cheap rotary shredder from Amazon (they're like $20, mine never stays clean because I use it like every other day) and see for yourself.

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I don't know what you're talking about. The lyrics seem pretty clear about the song being about cheese.

Her green plastic ez-cheese can

For her fake Chinese cooking pan

In the fake cheesy earth

That she ate from a spray cheese can

In a town full of muenster plans

To get rid of American

It wears her out

It wears her out

It wears her out

It wears her out

She lives with a queso hand

A sliced American hand

That just crumbles and molds

He used to get pepper jack

For girls who want that jack

But American always wins

And it wears him out

It wears him out

It wears him out

It wears

She looks like the fake cheese

She tastes like the fake cheese

My fake plastic cheese

But I can't help the feeling

I could chew through the sealing

If I just turn and taste

And it wears me out

It wears me out

It wears me out

It wears me out

And if it could be cheese you wanted

If it could be cheese you wanted

All the cheese

All the cheese

cook yourself between two pieces of bread and maybe you'll be compared to american grilled cheese instead

Random tip, if you have a block of cheese but no slicer, you can wrap it once with dental floss where you wanna cut and pull the ends together to cut through the cheese. It can be just a tad awkward though, just basically try to make sure the floss ends stay lined up on the plane of the cut. I dunno, just a quick hack anyways.

I have a cheese and meat slicer on my wishlist, I'll get there one of these days.

Gone are the days of being properly fed off a normal wage.

Markedly. The stuff wrapped in plastic is like play dough in comparison to getting it in a block or sliced from the deli counter.

Are you okay?

I dunno man, the whole point of using a Twizzler as a straw is that you eat it after....

Imagine if, instead of showing bling replacement teeth, rappers posed for photos with Twizzlers in their mouths. Craig Charles surely would have looked different.

Absolutely.

Although I imagine some sort of German engineered version, where the hole isn't all that big but somehow maintains structural integrity yet significant flow rate.

The life we could've had if McDonalds didn't dictate things.

I used to drink root beer out of the licorice red vines, those held up quite well. Though, the lart was around seven years ago. I haven't seen blaok red vines in ages around these parts.

Have no idea if the red ones would have held up. Never liked those too much, heh, and other than root beer, birch beer, I'd drink coffee instead.

For the record, good American cheese does exist. It's just a blend of cheddar and Colby with some annatto for seasoning, instead of the extruded "cheese product" stuff in plastic wrappers.

Oh yes, sorry.

""""""cheese"""""" like this always tastes gross.

True those taste good, but they taste even better made with Havarti or Gouda

No thanks. I prefer actual cheese on my sandwich. Not this salt paste. flings the frisbee cheese back at you take this abomination away.

First google it, then click on Wikipedia. Next time you tell someone to google it, but you really mean click the Wikipedia link… well you get the idea

Because banning plastic straws is more visible to consumer, and takes less from the profit margin of the companies?

pretty dang sure littering is already generally illegal and that has done basically nothing to stop people from doing it. But people can't throw plastic into the ocean if they can't get their hands on plastic to throw in the ocean.

Took a lot of digging to find a sane comment. No one is putting singles out on the charcuterie board, but it has a purpose, and it does it well.

The "process" is melting and adding emulsifying agents, vegetable oils, unfermented dairy ingredients, salt, food coloring, and sometimes sugar. the end product typically contains about 50-60% cheese.

and no, a mornay is not a cheese, its a sauce.