What purpose does American cheese serve? What problem does it solve?

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Yup, it does have multiple meanings. That’s why I said “arguably”.

    When people say “it’s plastic!”, they’re usually conveying that it’s made from inedible stuff, I’m aware that they don’t mean “it’s made from a polymerised substance that has been moulded while it still had some plasticity”.


    It’s a bit of off-topic but your comment made me realise that it’s theoretically possible to create cheese out of petroleum, air, and salt. It would be expensive and awful-tasting, but probably edible?

    I might do the synthesis route of that just for fun.

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      It might no even taste awful. Petroleum has a lot of interesting compounds that you could probably convert into flavor molecules if you could isolate them. This isn’t an endorsement of the practice, but chemistry is pretty cool.