notbob wrote:
>
> On 2004-06-23, Nancy Young > wrote:
>
> >
> > If you look, perhaps your store carries Kraft Deluxe. It is not
> > individually wrapped. It's the closest thing to the real American
> > cheese I grew up on.
>
> I haven't seen those in a long time, Nanc, and I've looked. Tillimook, a
> onetime quality cheese producer, has recently come out with AC shingles, but
> thay don't really do it, either.
>
> > Other than maybe color, the real thing bears
> > no resemblence to those yucky singles. (smile) Perhaps you won't
> > like that, either, it's cheddar like, but don't think those singles
> > things are even cheese.
>
> Most of them aren't. Borden's, once an icon for wholesome milk, now has
> zero milk in it. They didn't even bother to put in a poor facsimile of
> cheese flavor. They're just plain ol' yellow vegetable oil-based polyvinyl
> crud, as are many house brands, like Albertson's, etc. They taste just like
> brie.

(laugh) Well, I felt badly about even feeding the singles to my dog,
but she didn't seem to mind. American cheese as I had it, growing up,
came in a box, it was somehow waxed? and about a foot long. Sliced
American cheese slabs (?). My father was in the Army, so he got it
from the commisary. Bore no resemblence to the current singles. I
promise. Damned shame that people might think that is American
cheese, those singles. Gimme a box of that Army cheese any day.

nancy