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kleinbl00  ·  1995 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Millenials Strike Again. RIP American cheese.

American cheese is more properly called "reconstituted cheese." It starts out as cheddar that gets reheated under pressure with preservative added. Velveeta is effectively the refried beans of cheese.

Now that irradiation is an everyday workaday part of dairy processing it's hella easier to make any cheese shelf-stable long enough to sell at the grocery store. The reason we all ate Fucking Velveeta is that it was the only goddamn cheese that lasted longer than a week. Now? Now I can buy like fifteen different types of sliced sargento, not to mention that whole frickin' island of cheese from like Greece'n'shit.

This has exactly fuckall to do with millennials. nobody will eat Fucking Velveeta if there are other choices. 'cuz you know what? Laughing Cow is doing just fuckin' fine, thanks.





katakowsj  ·  1994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. We have better food while older folks that can't deal with the change. This time it's those damn millennials at fault.

Eating crap cheese was good when were kids. That's the way it was, and we liked it.

kleinbl00  ·  1994 days ago  ·  link  ·  

More specifically we didn't know any better.

I thought I hated fish my entire childhood. Except trout, which you catch yourself, haul home and then clean and fry. That shit was good. But anything else? I mean, ZOMG who the fuck would eat "red snapper?"

Then I moved somewhere that seafood wasn't caught, frozen, shipped to Los Angeles, trucked to Phoenix, trucked to Albuquerque, thawed, trucked to Santa Fe, allowed to sit overnight, trucked to Los Alamos, allowed to sit overnight, unloaded, put onto styrofoam trays and allowed to sit in the reefer tray for three days.

Fucking Velveeta lives in an era where you should never eat sushi when you're more than a couple hours' drive from the coast.