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[-] prole 8 points 20 hours ago

There's so much awful shit to criticize the US about. Just horrible stuff.

But the food ain't it.

[-] carotte 4 points 20 hours ago
[-] Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Well yeah, how else are you supposed to enjoy a Twinkie wiener sandwich?

[-] prole 3 points 18 hours ago
[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

This is one of my favorite weird ones - people decry it as "plastic cheese" and hold it up as a paragon of american culinary regression based on that assumption. But as it turns out, it's... not that bad?

Easy Cheese is an aged yellow (annatto) cheddar cheese emulsion (of cheese and some amount of milk + oil + water), sold in a disposable charger. It's pretty much just that - the only things that aren't cheese are a couple emulsifying salts (gross fun fact: sodium citrate (one of the salts) is the most common anticoagulant used for the preservation of whole blood - if you've ever had a transfusion, you've had it flowing through your veins!), alginate as a thickener and Apocarotenal (E160e), the only really questionable ingredient. It's purpose, as far as I am aware, is only as a color stabilizer (derived from spinach originally, now usually extracted from citrus pomace!) and it could easily be removed. While approved in pretty much every country for food use, there's been some studies coming out that show that excess amounts can accelerate cell oxidation (which I don't know what means but it sure sounds very scary).

People have been making whipped/blended cheeses by hand for thousands of years, and spray cheese for about as long as whipping siphons have been around (IIRC it originated in France with a "foamed brie" dish that (apocryphally) blew up the kitchen where it was developed due to an improvised and leaky gasometer. I doubt this is true though, as I cannot figure out how they would have pressurized the siphon assembly. Maybe some kind of spray-cheese whoopie cushion?). I personally quite dislike the texture, but I also dislike Nitro coffee/tea because of the overly 'smooth' texture the nitrogen gives it, so I suspect that's an issue exacerbated the autism.

That all said, the 'american' flavor of Easy Cheese is just this side of "dead rats" on the scale of "concerning things to find in someone's fridge" - it's basically flavorless, and although that begrudgingly does make it mostly inoffensive, anyone who willingly obtains it in favor of the cheddar version is probably angling to turn your skin into a charming couch cover...

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

More pedophiles in positions of power than the rest of all human history put together.

[-] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Sure, bud. Rich people just decided to start fucking kids this generation and not like, five minutes after the first ape had a thought.

[-] Bohne93@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

(I) Wonder (if you can even call it) Bread

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wonder Bread is fine. Is it "good bread"? Lmfao no, by no metric, but what it is is dirt fucking cheap, subsidized by the government, widely manufactured throughout the country and enriched with enough developmentally essential nutrients/vitamins to prove very effective in reducing childhood and adult malnutrition related diseases amongst the poorest populations in the country for the last 60-some years.

It's not a parisian baguette no, but absolutely nobody has ever thought it compares (with one hilarious exception), and the world is overall better for it's existence.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

That's more or less a summary of the major issues with American food. It's industrialized and standardized into a way where it'll keep you alive for cheap and is inoffensive. But it's weirdly sweet and one can't help but wonder why the first mass subsidized bread wasn't whole wheat.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

White bread lasts longer than whole-wheat bread, and white flour is the cheapest available flour (well, since industrialization. Historically it was reserved for special occasions and the social elites) . Also Wonderbread is available in whole wheat. Also also:

In the United States, consumers sometimes refer to white bread as "sandwich bread" or "sandwich loaf". [9] It is often perceived as an unhealthy, bland, and unsophisticated menu item.

Hostess, the makers of such delightful American™ staple foods as Twinkies, Ho-Hos and (for many years) Wonderbread, went bankrupt more than a decade ago, so like... they weren't (and aren't) a huge part of the american diet.

But but, CHEMICALS! shakes violently in European

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