Indeed. It’s frightening to know that people eat this chemical shit that shouldn’t be called food.
Its canola oil, fake cheese, and yellow food dye. Better than whatever monstrosity Taco Bell comes up with.
What a weird take. Both are shit tier foods. Not sure what makes spray cheese somehow better.
Don't get me wrong, I love shit tier foods! And I think people should be free to enjoy them as they please. But what in the world makes one overly processed product better than the other? We aren't comparing a 5 course meal at a 5 star restaurant to a bowl of instant ramen. You're comparing stuff in the same tier as each other.
So there's a scene in A Goofy Movie where a guy gets paid for his part in some shenanigans by some edible substance in a spray bottle. Given that I was a kid in a non-English speaking country growing up and watching this movie dubbed to my native language, the substance that the character proclaims that he has received is 'Caramel sauce'.
It was only later in life, when I watched the movie with the original English language, that I learned that the character in reality proclaimed 'Cheez-Wiz'.
All of this to say that the concept of spray cheese was so foreign to our country that they decided to substantially change this scene.
Looking back, I think they should have kept the original - gulfing down caramel sauce straight from the bottle just doesn't hit the same as gulfing down spray cheese.
And you miss the "leaning tower of Chees-a" pun.
That line has lived in my head rent free since the first time I saw the trailer as a 6yo
A few years back, I was dating an Italian woman (she was a uni lecturer here in the UK). One day, she saw me grating cheddar cheese onto a pizza and she went fucking mental
Italians acting like food gods is one of the most obnoxious things ever.
What an obnoxious behaviour. What problem she had with cheddar cheese on pizza?
"This is not the cheese for pizza! Why? Why you do this?!" she kept saying over and over, I thought she was joking at first but genuinely distressed. Tbh she was a bit of a strange woman (and I say this as an objectively strange man). It didn't last longer than a few months!
Final straw was when she had been saying she missed home badly, so for her next visit I bought a dining table, assembled it myself, bought a bunch of Italian foods, some Italian wine, got it all setup with a nice tablecloth and spread when she got to mine, and she literally went "meh" when she sat down hahaha.
And then they have the fucking audacity to criticise beans on toast.
Yuropean here. What in the world is that?!
It's delicious cheese product.
Cheese-like product* for legal reasons we are not able to call it cheese.
What's odd is it is literally cheese though. It's called cheese product because it is a spread, not whole cheese, and has been processed to not require refrigeration long term.
I did not know this until I googled it, so figured I'd share.
I've seen this on the 'American shelf' in supermarkets before and was tempted by it as a novelty. I just looked at the Wikipedia and its just processed cheese extruded by a piston. Europeans buy processed cheese too, you get it in every supermarket. And maybe the smelting salts (is it called that?) are not too healthy when constantly consumed, but what isn't? I don't mind, let people have fun, stuff's hard enough as it is.
I agree with your sentiment, and I haven't had it for probably like 20 years, but it's nasty. As an American, I don't understand it. I won't tell anyone they shouldn't eat it (except for pointing out how much salt it has in it), but it really shouldn't exist I don't think. There are better ways to eat unhealthy things.
As a European I'm... sort of not in love with the idea of that. I'd try it, though.
American "cheese", the individually wrapped kind, is pretty useful in cheese sauce. Maybe not something I'd use on its own.
As an American, I will observe that it has the property of melting perfectly on a properly-cooked burger. Does great in a grilled cheese sandwich as well. Since we eat a lot of burgers and grilled cheeses, we find it to be a useful cheese and eat a lot of it. And nachos, which are often made with american cheese since, as you say, it melts great into a sauce.
Most Americans don't use american cheese on everything that has cheese in it, but it has its specific role.
American cheese is basically cheese with sodium citrate added. That's what makes it so good at melting.
Processed "real" cheese or not Tried it twice, its a vile can of piss coloured poison to me
Probably doesn't help that I'm not american
I feel like this product would be better if it didn't pretend to be cheese, but just some form of spread.
Now tell them you enjoy spray cheese on a Ritz cracker with caviar because you're cultured
It is nasty, and I won't defend it, but Europe has plenty to apologize for, culinarily speaking.
I have never actually seen this once in my life or known anyone to ever eat it. Is this a regional thing?
It's pretty common everywhere in the US I've been, and I've been to every state except Hawaii and Alaska.
It's amazing on Ritz. Especially the bacon one.
Southeast born and raised here, never seen it in person lol. And trust me, I know everything in the cheese aisle
You won't find it in the cheese aisle because it's definitely not cheese.
Try the chip/cracker aisle.
-"Yay! Finally due for some American-style freedom and democracy! At last the mathematical majority of the populace will decide who gets elected! No longer will an elite clique of corruptible intermediaries have the last word on who gets to be in power in the country!"
-"Weeeeelllll, about that..."
-"Aw, well at least we get some real cheese!"
-"..."
We aren't frightened, because our definition of cheese is different.
I had the same idea for a while, but as taco addicted Norwegians unsatisfied with the current cheese options in our meaty tex mex burritos, and we were seduced by Adam Ragusea's cheese sauce with sodium citrate emulsifier.
We tried and dropped the whole "mix lemon juice with baking soda until no longer tart" and just bought the finished sodium citrate (E331) instead.
The result with that was a cheddar sauce so smooth and awesome that I don't believe for a second that any of you to the south could outcompete it, no matter how expensive or funky you go.
Perfectly emulsified cheddar cheese sauce is magnificent. It was like 90% cheddar. It was delicious.
There's a ton of degenerate things in Europe too. For instance, italians have a pizza with potatoes on top. Swedes like cheese inside their coffee. Swedes also like tomato sauce, cheese and i think ham paste off an aluminium toothpaste like squeeze tube. Swedes are absolute lovable degenerates.
Germans have these devices which look like a massive cow tit to "milk" as it were, their ketchup and mayonnaise from.
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