Inverted hamburger buns, processed American cheese food product, bacon, jalapeno, chips, dip. Mayo for browning.
Cost per person $1.78
Inverted hamburger buns, processed American cheese food product, bacon, jalapeno, chips, dip. Mayo for browning.
Cost per person $1.78
I’ll talk badly about it when you can go to any store’s deli to get real American cheese that is actual cheese. (American cheese proper is just colby and jack melted with sodium citrate which changes the physics a bit, so it’s legit and delicious. Kraft Singles are shitty, but are good for some melty applications - but real American cheese is always better)
I don’t know if I’ve ever had actual american cheese (I’m Canadian), I’ve eaten over the border countless times and there could have been american cheese in my burgers but I can’t say I’ve knowingly eaten it. Is it the same as government cheese? Do they come in blocks or individually wrapped like kraft singles? I really only know about it through memes and pictures and to me, it just looks like the typical mass produced cheddar blocks you can get at any grocery.
Well, there is a huge HUGE variety in cheese quality in general. American cheese is no different.
US Government cheese is American cheese, although while classic American cheese is made from colby and jack, a wider variety can go into Government cheese. I cannot speak to the quality of it at all, having never had it to my knowledge. But at least it should be better than Kraft singles (which do still have a place, imho, just a small one. lol. Like… fine on a burger or whatever)
Anything single-wrapped in plastic is almost certainly “cheese food” or whatever.
In the deli, it will come in typically five or I think ten pound blocks - blocks, anyway. It can be sliced like any cheese.
To me, cheese is many different things. I enjoy your standard cheese types sold in most grocery stores, although I also enjoy cheese from a dedicated cheese shop on a wholly different level. I have a number of favorites that I will have a couple of ounces of along with some fancy crackers, good sweet gherkins, black olives, various things like that - or a good crusty bread or a nice challah or something.
So deli American cheese doesn’t rise to THAT level, altough just tonight I had some great smoked gruyere along with Boar’s Head yellow American and sweet gherkins for a snack, and the American held its own in that mix. heh.
I would say that I personally prefer a nice sharp cheddar - anything below medium is boring, so even a good quality mild cheddar is pretty boring to me. It’s not a fair analogy, but I’d say the cheese food stuff is like a mild cheddar - fine but boring. Gimme a nice extra sharp and we’re talking. Well, gimme a good deli American cheese and it’s one I’ll eat on its own. Lesser stuff is only okay if it’s melty on some sandwich or something.
I hope that helps a bit. lol. I’d imagine your local deli should have some sort of American cheese, though I don’t know that for sure. It’s just that it’s really common for sandwiches, so if they have a decent cheese selection, surely they will. lol. Board’s Head makes a good one, Land’O’Lakes is pretty decent. I can’t think of any others, but I have forgotten a common brand or two that should exist. heh.
“American cheese” is defined as cheddar cheese, Colby cheese, washed curd cheese, or granular cheese, or any mixture of two or more of those. Kraft Singles are a “Pasteurized process American cheese food product” by staying above 51% actual cheese, with the rest being added milk, cream, or whey, or products of these.
You have to capitalize Colby, or the Colby people will send their agents out after you.
I’m half-joking. We used to have “Co-Jack” cheese but they made a huge deal about it. It can’t be called Colby if it’s mixed with anything else.