How low on avocado do you need to be to not be allowed to say that it’s guac? 3.5% will certainly do it.

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    at least they’re up front about their bullshit. unlike “american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print. when i worked at starbucks we had to call it a “chocolatey chip” frappuccino instead of “chocolate chip,” because the ingredients didn’t fit the legal definition of chocolate

    i’m also impressed they called it “rapeseed oil” instead of canola oil. though maybe there are new rules about that

    edit: ok, “canola oil” is a stupid americas thing–i withdraw my impressedness

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      Honestly not sure why people get so upset about American cheese. It’s just cheese with an emulsifier in it that softens it. Best burger cheese by far.

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        It’s less the emulsifier softens it, more it allows water to the added. Cheese is largely fat/oil which doesn’t mix easily with water.

        The emulsifier allows you to melt and cast left over cheese, and add water to increase it’s volume. Its original invention was to make use of scrap cuts of cheese.

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        Best burger cheese by far.

        How can you possibly say such nonsense when swiss and muenster both exist

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          Swiss is an abomination of a cheese that should never have been made. It’s hard, dry, flavorless and is terrible at melting. Not even just for burgers there’s no need at all for swiss cheese in general. P.S. modern Swiss uses sawdust to make the holes. Enjoy eating your sawdust.

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        Then you need to try a few different brands of American cheese to find out that the most affordable options often use so much vegetable oil that it basically tastes like oil with some whey powder in it.

        Yes there are good quality American cheese offerings, Land o Lakes and Boars Head both have an actual cultured American cheese.

        But nearly all of the non-premium brands are frankly unpleasant.

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        You clearly haven’t had a burger with a good quality bun & patty grilled to medium rare with layers of cheddar, Colby, pepper jack and Swiss melted on top

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          None of those cheeses melt well, they split and leak oil. Sure they get soft and gooey but a bit of sodium citrate would make it better.

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            What do you mean by it “splitting?” How does real cheese not “melt well” exactly? And oily cheese? Where do you even get oily cheese?

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              Splitting, or breaking, is the separation of sauce, cheese, or other emulsion. As a milk product, cheese is a mixture of water, oil, and protein (and some sugars, fungus, coloring agents, details vary). Heat causes those elements to “split” and is the reason you can’t make a cheese sauce without some kind of emulsifier.

              Premium American cheese, labeled “pasteurized process American cheese”, is mostly traditional cheese by weight (usually cheddar, often with Colby or others mixed in) with salt, color, emulsifier, citric acid, and up to 5% added dairy fat. That’s all the same stuff traditional cheese has except for the emulsifier (commonly sodium citrate or phosphate) which keeps it from separating as it melts.

              Also all cheese is a “processed food” before anyone gets riled up about the terminology.

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      Hasn’t it always been called rapeseed in the UK?

      As I understand it, canola oil as a term is used predominantly only in the US and Canada, with canola itself being a portmanteau of Can -adian and Oil

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      Here in the USA something that says “guacamole inspired” would for sure have zero percent avocado lol

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      Canola is a North American thing. AFAIK the British are familiar with the term “rapeseed” and don’t need the rebranding.

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        canola is a specific cultivar of rapeseed, regular rapeseed contains more erucic acid. there is no good reason for this because erucic acid has no proven health impacts on humans but they did it anyway

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      In Swiss, Milk alternatives like oat milk, aren’t allowed to contain “milk” in the name, because they’re not milk.

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        Honestly, I think thats just nonsense.

        Everyone is very much aware that Oat Milk and Soy Milk and all the other non-dairy milks don’t have any cow juice in them

        Just the name itself makes it clear.

        It’s as equally stupid, in my opinion, as the argument that we shouldn’t call a vegetarian or vegan burger a “burger” because people might think it has meat when it doesn’t.

        It’s all a play by the dairy and meat industries to make vegan alternatives sound unappetising, and it’s very transparent.

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      "american cheese” that has “pasteurized processed cheese product” in fine print. or “ice cream” with “frozen dairy product” in fine print

      Maybe this is just because I live in Wisconsin where the dairy and alcohol lobbies are both extremely strong, but most not-icecream is labeled as a “frozen desert” and those terrible plastic Impersonations of cheese also aren’t labeled as cheese at all.

      Granted the graphic design does a ton of the heavy lifting. On the “frozen desert” it shows a scoop of ice cream in decidedly ice cream like packaging and says the flavor really huge, then in much smaller print below that “frozen desert” and I think Kraft Singles just shows a picture of cheese and the branding without actually specifying what the product is