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It feels like such a waste.

EDIT: This is the type of cheese I am referring to. It comes wrapped in a piece of plastic then bundled together with x more and all of them get covered in plastic

    • clif
      7•7 months ago

      “American cheese”. I searched for an image and conveniently Wikipedia shows one with the clarification that it’s an “American cheese single”.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese

      But, imagine ten or twenty of those individually wrapped slices wrapped together in another bit of plastic.

      You can hit an image search for “American cheese singles” and find a lot more examples.

    • Froyn
      3•7 months ago

      Any cheese by Kraft labeled as “singles” would fit the bill. I’ve seen American, Swiss, and Mozzarella done this way. Italics as I cannot confirm other countries would consider it cheese.

      check the labels folks, “Cheese food product” is called that because it cannot legally be called cheese.

      • rhythmisaprancer
        2•7 months ago

        I think that even in the US it is not considered cheese, but a cheese “product.”

        • @piecat@lemmy.world
          3•7 months ago

          That’s only because agriculture had really great lobbyists at one point. So we have really specific naming regulations.

          It’s just ground cheese with citrate.

          • rhythmisaprancer
            2•7 months ago

            Mmm pre chewed cheese!

            I think it would be disingenuous to call it cheese since it has been processed, just like it is probably inappropriate to call a hot dog ground pork.