Walter Bushell wrote:

Anyway anything
containing hydrogenated oils are food like substances.

Speaking of food like substances what happened to American pasteurized
process cheese? The labels used to say it was legally cheese. It used
to be Velveeta was fake and other American cheeses were low quality but
still real enough to be legally cheese.

I recently read the labels carefully on Kraft American cheese. Now it's
some sort of cheese food product that's not legally cheese. Okay, time
to switch brands so I read the label of Borden. Nope, same wording. On
to store brands and brands at other stores. Nope, same wording
everywhere. My wife asked what I was looking at. When she read that
part on the label she switched to buying precut slices of cheddar.

Has the fomula for American cheese changed so it's now so crappy it
crossed the boundary into fake territory? Or have the labelling laws
changed again and it's still the same old recipe that used to produce
low quality stuff that at that time used to be legally cheese?

The next time I'm at Woodmans I'll read the labels on the big chubs of
American cheese. They look like "welfare cheese". Some are presliced
but not individually wrapped. Some are not even presliced. They all
seem to come in those big 5 pound chubs like "welfare cheese" used to.

I like almost any cheese that doesn't have mold in it. I'm not fussy
about cheese. I like American cheese. I just want the stuff I eat to
legally count as cheese.

I remember about 1999 when I first read the labels on tomato paste most
brands had added HFCS so I settled on the one brand that did not. Maybe
5 years later someone told me to read the labels again. Bingo none of
the brands had HFCS any more. They still don't. Good stuff. Far as I
know that was a change in recipe not a change in labelling laws. Is it
a change in labelling laws this time not a change in the recipe?