I've been told that the stuff isn't actually plastic, but rather clear cellulose, and can in a pinch be used as a wrap to roll a joint. Yes clear cellulose papers do exist, but you think I'd actually trust smoking cheese wrapping stuff? Hell no!
Regardless, after hearing that years ago, I did try burning a cheese wrap after that, and much to my surprise the wrap didn't melt like plastic, it burned like paper.
I just got done trying it again, with a different brand of cheese, and yeah this one burned and melted like plastic. ☹️
I guess different cheese makers use different wrapping material, but either way, if someone suggests rolling a joint in cheese wrap, just say NO!
You are a modern day Magellan, never change
You can't just drop a thesis like that without telling us what the good brand was my guy :(
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.
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I have clear rolling papers and they're a cool gimmick but not at all practical for everyday use. Harder to roll and doesn't stick to itself as well.
They also don't seem to burn nearly as well. IME they always needed to be relit multiple times.
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. 🤷♂️
I wonder if there’s any correlation with cheese wrapper joints and strains named cheese.
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!
I've been told that the stuff isn't actually plastic,
Some even claim this stuff is cheese
I knew it wasn't cheese! Cellulose!
notin America
I got a milkshake a while back, in a plastic container, with a plastic lid, for some reason it also came with a plastic spoon, and a paper straw, since they are cutting down on plastics...
>go to mcdonald's
>order hot cakes and a large orange juice
>receive hot cakes in plastic container, with six individually plastic wrapped teaspoons of butter and a plastic tub of high fructose corn syrup and a large plastic cup of orange juice
>throw away plastic straw
>pull out reusable metal straw
>I'm saving the environment one breakfast at a time
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
Don't forget the gallon of gas you burned in the drive thru 👍
Ah the, "I'll have a diet coke with this Big Mag, Cheesecake bites, large French Fries" mindset.
I know this probably isn't the best place, but I really hate the way paper straws feel, but I also hate being handed a any straw when I can just drink straight from the cup anyway.
In my community, most of the lids are biodegradable. Still not great (require an industrial composter), but at least if it is left out, it does breakdown somewhat faster than "never"
I mean there was some joke libertarian candidate that literally ran under the slogan "Make America Grate Again" claiming that he would outlaw sliced and shredded cheeses to make America embrace its graters and its grating roots.
I bought a rotary grater about two years ago thanks to a post on Reddit and I rarely ever buy sliced cheese anymore, if I do it's the kind that comes in one pack with parchment paper in between the slices.
If they didn't they would all melt together cause that stuff isn't real cheese.
when the contents have as much plastic as the packaging
Looking at the thumbnail, I assumed this was going to be a joke about the cheese being essentially plastic
They could use parchment paper I think.
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
Personally, I like cheese but I always found plastic sliced cheese just fucking gross. Melted cheese in plastic blech
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I'm never exposed my child to this stuff, she's been raised with mild cheddar slices or better, I guess they use it in fast food places though.
It's plastic isn't it?
You couldn't be more wrong 😐
We just have them separated by baking paper here.
Kraft does sell non-singles sliced american cheese. Nothing between the slices and it doesn't stick together. Also doesn't have that plasticy taste.
which is super ironic because this trash doesn't melt
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...
That's because all you absolute fucking babies are still crying they took your plastic straw away.
The reason we don't have sensible climate conversations leading to real action is because the SLIGHTEST thing anyone suggests and you fucking scream your toddler heads off for years!
Many modern humans are a bunch of entitled little shits and it applies across the political spectrum.
I strongly believe every person needs to experience serious adversity at some point - homelessness, joblessness, food insecurity, chronic health issues, or chronic pain. I have had most of the above (and still have some, yay chronic health issues) and that made me a better person by giving me perspective. I don't give a shit about losing plastic straws; on the contrary, I welcome their loss, they're stupid and polluting. I can walk and I have a warm place to sleep at night, losses like plastic straws seem as trivial as they truly are.
All the best people I know went through some shit or are empathetic enough to understand what it's like. The worst people I know either were protected from adversity, lack the empathy to learn from others, or went through an adverse situation but didn't have the tools to properly work through it so it made them worse.
Ask me how I know we're not gonna reach our climate change reduction goals.
We'll reach them once everyone dies in the hunger wars of 2088
For folks worried about plastic straws and bags and simple little shit, remind them what Lego is made of and how much of that is out there with the rest of the trash...
Don't get me wrong, I love Lego, but still in the long run it's just more of the plastic pollution problem. Of course this isn't the only place they end up, but check this...
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Dang, sorry for not being 100% on board with something that'll make things worse for some disabled people while having an immeasurable impact on the climate
Remember when fruit stickers used to be paper and biodegradable? Now they're all fucking plastic because they need their logo to be shinier I guess.
Or just don't buy American cheese because it's gross and fake.
I have come full circle. I loved processed American cheese food (pacf) when I was a kid because I was a kid. Then I got into fancy sliced cheeses like cheddar and Gouda. But they don't melt as nicely! So now back to pacf for burgers and melts because it is the best ingredient for that job.
Its also cheap, tho.
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.
It’s delicious and who cares if something is real or not?
Two things: these are basically plastic anyways.
Also, the plastic straw thing was a PR move. Corporations don't give any shits unless it will make money or lose them money.
I'm sure there was a nontrivial number of customers who either boycotted or threatened to boycott companies that didn't switch. When their bottom line gets threatened like that, they take action to prevent revenue loss.
Nothing more. There's way more problems with everything than plastic straws. My favorite PR move is how they convinced everyone that their cars are causing the majority of CO2 emissions from transit.... Between that and airplanes, everyone is up in arms about the electrification of everything.... Yet, the most major transport offenders are freight, and they have no plans or intention of changing their ways. I heard somewhere that if you were to have zero carbon emissions for your entire life, you would save the approximate amount that freight liners emit in a year, at most. I think a year is too long. I forget the exact figure.
They emit more CO2 than all the cars, and all the planes and everything else you could point to... Yet, I have yet to hear anyone tell me about it, either personally, or on the news or anything. Everyone seems oblivious to the facts. They latch on to these "issues" like straws and personal vehicle CO2 emissions which are trivial....
People saw that video of the sea turtle with the straw in its nose and, rightfully, got mad. If only they also got mad about microplastics being inside everyone and everything.
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.
Good American cheese isn't individually wrapped. Only the really cheap shit comes like that.
Good American cheese is the really cheap shit.
The whole point of American cheese is that it’s barely cheese and more like a delicious coagulated milk-stuff sheet.
Gourmet American Cheese is some 1%-er bullshit.
Kind of depends. Vermont cheddar cheese is fantastic and very nice but if you looking for a good smash burger or juicy Lucy burger you have to use that crappy Kraft singles stuff for the proper melt. Sure you can get Kraft in a block of sliced cheese but I am rarely cooking for like 50-100 people, which these blocks come out of.
Kraft cornered the market for a stable cheese in the early 1900’s here in America that melts really nicely and has a long shelf life with Velveeta.
A fun short little history and company story is by the Company Man on YouTube https://youtu.be/Hp0uhC15RtI?si=JAPmRQztP7ee5eSU
But even Guga Foods on YouTube highly recommends using the crappy cheese over the fancy stuff
I think by Good American cheese they meant something more like this:
https://www.landolakes.com/products/cheese/deli-american/
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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Fake Plastic Cheese, good radiohead song.
I admit growing up pretty poor, these were considered a treat lol.
You may be remembering Radiohead a bit differently than the rest of us.
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
Considered the following:
The slices of cheese are analogous to each of our individual lives: it's boring, manufactured, and there is a wrap of plastic which define us as individuals but keeps separate from one another. The only good aspect of American cheese is that it is designed for melting, so in essence, by removing the plastic barrier that keeps us separated, we, like the humble slices of American cheese, can melt and become part of something greater than our individual selves (like a burger or a grilled cheese).
Or as Karl Marx once said: Life is plastic, it's fantastic.
Being compared to American Cheese is the worst insult I've ever endured.
cook yourself between two pieces of bread and maybe you'll be compared to american grilled cheese instead
I really want American cheese that is not wrapped in plastic. Kraft makes it but it costs more than double the plastic wrapped stuff. I've paid that price when times were plenty but they are no more.
Buy a cheese slicer and thank me later. Another pro tip buy cheese from Amish people if you can, I love like 30 minutes away from an Amish store & their cheese is on another level.
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.
Why the fuck didn't Twizzlers capitalise on the non-plastic straw market?!
Have you ever tried to snort coke through a Twizzler?
'nuff said.
This...So much thie...but red vines rather than twizzler. They have a much bigger hole.
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.
Why can’t they make the straw out of the same thing that the inside of the cup is made out of? My cup isn’t disintegrating in seven minutes due to exposure to liquid.
Cheese like this always tastes gross.
This is not real cheese, it is american cheese.
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.
A daily reminder that durable biocellulose plastics have been available for over 75 years.
I've just realised why that stuff always tastes like plastic
Would have been less work to wikipedia types of plastic than make a whole meme
Mmm... 64 slices of American cheese.
I heard that in my head. 🤤🤤
Don’t even think about calling that sludge cheese. But it’s definitely American, that’s for sure!
64
Oghm...
Well in this case plastic for plastic seems fine
Let's not forget about milk in plastic bags
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Well, in my country they've replaced the straws on those 2dl juice boxes by a flimsy paper straw that disintegrate with any contact with any liquid, and can't punch trough the tiny METALLIC seal for the straw hole. These useless paperrolls are packed in pladtic, and gued to the side of the box...
Paper straws are so bad 😂 😅 🤣 😂 Why not ban throwing plastic into the ocean instead of banning plastic straws?
Because banning plastic straws is more visible to consumer, and takes less from the profit margin of the companies?
my mom used to buy that crap along with nasty white bread. she still microwaves food on plastic plates that are decades old with visible knife cuts and bacteria stains in them. she used to be a life long democrat like our blue collar grand parents. Now she wants to stop immigrants even though she wouldn't recognize any and doesn't live anywhere near a border and she's already retired.
Anyway, don't eat that cheese, pick something else and don't turn into a dick when you get old.
You'd think these could be seperated perfectly by pieces of wax paper.
Edit: oh, and you basically have these smoked cheese sausages. Which is basically the same thing, but pressed in a sausage shape with an artificial skin. I'd bet the unsmoked version of that would taste very similar to this. And you could just cut your own slices. And they'd fit even better on a burger since they're round.
To be fair, the so called “”cheese”” inside the plastic wrap is probably mostly plastic / petro product as welll…
My favorite is when Brody puts the full slice in his mouth and removes the casings like an owl regurgitating mouse bones.
Lucky for you.
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Baby steps... Baby steps...
Just eat real cheese, not this processed crap that's so gunky it sticks together. Double win!
The "process" is melting, and the "crap" they add is milk and phosphates.
Calling Kraft singles "not real cheese" is the equivalent to calling a sauce Mornay "not real cheese" - technically correct I guess, but its still made out of perfectly safe ingredients and serves it's purpose well.
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.
They used to sell it without the wrappers though too. But now it’s so unpopular that they often only have tv he individually wrapped ones.
I buy this stuff once a year for smash burgers in the summer. Use the rest up for grilled cheeses and then try to forget imitation just wasted all that plastic.
Unpopular opinion : stacking CO2 in plastic bags does less harm than pumping it to atmosphere
As a Canadian I find it dumb, but also somehow the ban was deemed unconstitutional(Dont you think there are more important issues to use our federal courts for?)
There’s more plastic in that “cheese” than there is in a straw
Ban plastic straws...but let's just make sure the american public forget the the US blew up the nordstream pipeline and some oil company set an area of the ocean on fire when an oil spill happened
this rhetoric is so fucking exhausting, how many people litter this kind of plastic packaging? when do you see someone throwing plastic out the window of their house????
we're getting rid of plastic in TAKEOUT packaging because people will merrily toss that out the car window as they speed down a highway with a burger in their hand, it's not rocket science to figure this out.
fucking facebook-level post
We wrap too much in plastic. This and takeout and everything. You're a facebook-level user.
