extra sharp cheddar ftw. I always get small blocks and shave off slices for sandwiches. I will admit the singles do something magical for grilled cheese sandwiches though. other than that, I dont touch the stuff
I never even thought about whether it was cheese or not. I usually made grilled cheese with these and just looked at the ingredients recently. Ugh. Definitely not cheese.
Kroger Brand American Cheese for me, when it comes to that stuff. Sucks that my local Kroger doesn't have a real deli because I'd def be a cheese snob if it did. My local Walmart's deli is decent but I avoid that place whenever possible. So it's Kroger brand or Sergento over here.
I eat the fat free slices on a regular basis, melted in egg white breakfast tacos. Main ingredient seems to be skim milk. Don't see what's so bad about that. Call it cheese or don't, still tastes fine to me.
Not cheese All you Kraft fans might be cheating yourself. I know a guy who always used it on his sandwiches, then I told him it was fake and to use real cheese. He didn't know what I was talking at first. He finally tried it... said it made the sandwich taste completely different. Now he always uses real cheese.
You can tell by the label. If "cheese" or "cheese culture" isn't the first ingredient, it's not real.
I always had the standard cheese product growing up, and so I continued to buy it. It wasn't until I met my wife, who was on WIC, that I discovered what I was eating wasn't real cheese. WIC makes you buy the deli deluxe version, which is labeled as cheese rather than cheese product. Though I only use American for Burgers or Grilled Cheese. I can't eat regular Kraft Singles anymore. They gross me out.
