Ask a foreigner

[Teasel]

Lots of us grew up eating white bread, American cheese, mustard and bologna sandwiches. The ultimate non-food American lunch! :laugh:

I'd really like to try them :D

I found this - It came from a jar
They mention kraft singles, they are different to american cheese though right?

 

[bellbird]

Gal I worked with was from NZ....she can't stand peanut butter

Maybe she came from way out in the wops (middle of nowhere), since most of us here in NZ have grown up on PB and J (where the J stands for jam and not jelly, because jelly == jello) :tup: .

Curious if anyone has tried marmite / vegemite (inferior to marmite), and your thoughts? >>> Black gold.

 

[Friday]

They mention kraft singles, they are different to american cheese though right?

In 2002 the FDA ruled that kraft singles can’t legally be called “food”! :roflmao:

American cheese... is really a series of varied recipes for cheese flavored jell-o? None of them can legally be called cheese, but have to have some version of “cheese product” or “processed cheese food” on the label instead. (Like anything containing less than 11% chocolate has to be called chocolaty or candy, and can’t be called straight up chocolate. Or how marmite/Vegemite is a yeast byproduct from the brewing process, not beer.) Technically not all of them contain gelatin, many are just cheese powder mixed with “emulsifying agents”. Some use gelatin, some use eggs/oil, some use chemical numbers of mysterious origin. So it varies by brand. But they’re all essentially cheese flavored jell-o. Kraft singles are individually poured & wrapped “slices” of cheese flavored jell-o rather than a denser block of it. Colonial recipes for it are melted cheese, milk, & aspic. Modern recipes are very 1950s “better living through chemistry” :rolleyes:

 

[somerandomguy]

Curious if anyone has tried marmite / vegemite (inferior to marmite), and your thoughts?

I've tried it several times and I hated it worse each time. Definitely something tou have to grow up eating. Yuck.

 

[Teasel]

cheese flavored jell-o?

Wow :D I never knew that! And we have those kraft single type things on burgers all the time. I don't know why, but I thought American cheese might be a bit like Edam, though I do sorta remember hearing foreigners turn their nose up at American cheese in articles and stuff. I'm guessing dairylea triangles must be similar - I love them!

I grew up as a determined marmite hater @bellbird I remember aged 7 mistakenly taking my brothers packed lunch to school and when i opened it up i cried lol.

Marmite and Sage, about 2 of the only things i really disliked. Though in recent years I've realised I quite like it if it's spread really thin on toast. Never had Vegemite, it's similar isn't it? In flavour I mean?

 

[LuckiLee]

I use Kraft "cheese jello" (lmao) slices in my cheese sauce for broccoli or whatever. And it makes a great grilled "cheese jello" sandwich. ?

I have a love/hate relationship with bologna. Sometimes I crave it. (Bought some yesterday). We grew up eating it fried with eggs. Yum/Yuk. And we ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches. Mom didn't like jelly/jam so we never had it. Lol.

 

[bellbird]

Never had Vegemite, it's similar isn't it? In flavour I mean?

As a New Zealander, I feel the only appropriate response is "it's worse".

The more truthful answer is that I've either never, or not in the last couple decades at least, had Vegemite, but I'd assume as two tar-like yeast spreads, they can't be that different from one another.

Though in recent years I've realised I quite like it if it's spread really thin on toast.

Thin is key! I think most people who try it as a thing, will just take a spoon or something. But that's never going to be good for someone who's never had it before :D

Thin on buttered toast, or spread thin on crackers with cheese (perhaps not jello cheese though ;) ) is the way to go :tup:

 

[siniang]

I neither like PB, Vegemite or Marmite.

I'm a Nutella gal :D

 

[somerandomguy]

Yeah I have no problem with American cheese - the stuff from the deli case is actually cheese, Kraft less so, Velveeta barely so.

Up until a few years ago Nutella was very hard to find in the USA (at least in the parts of the USA that I've lived anyway). Now it's available pretty much everywhere. I can't eat it though, I'm allergic to hazelnuts. My wife just eats it with a spoon right out of the jar!

 

[siniang]

Warning, snobby European in-coming.

American Nutella is way sweeter than European Nutella. So are many other things. The exact same product....significantly sweeter in the US than in Europe.

Cheese....TOUCHY subject for this European. So are sausages :D:bag:

 

[LuckiLee]

I found out recently that my favorite candy when I was growing up is still made in Europe. It was called the Marathon Bar and they stopped selling it here in the 80's. It's called the Curly Wirley now. Ever had one? After all these years I still think about them. ?

 

[Friday]

Marmite is DELICIOUS :inlove:
Vegemite just makes me happy :happy:

I ate both as a kid, though. Funny story.... When we moved back stateside there were a number of things I couldn’t wrap my head around & kept looking for everywhere (proper toilets, instead of western toilets, candy that you ate the wrappers -botan rice candy- don’t get me started on the numbers of butterscotch, firehots, etc. I put in my mouth and waited for the plastic to dissolve! :hilarious: ) AND “the stuff you put on toast”. I didn’t know what it was called, or what it was, and various attempts to “make toast right” included (but was not limited to) black strap molasses :eek: bouillon cubes (maybe Americans rub it on their toast instead of using a knife? NOPE! This is AWFUL!) :sick: Nesquick, chili paste, something German that may not have actually been a food based product, Nutella, mole, several different dark jams, the stuff that goes on the Icelandic x as cake my mom makes every year ( :wtf: super duper gross, doesn’t qualify as jam no matter what she says), and ketchup old enough to have been made with death apples :whistling: It was in my grandparents panty.

Eventually I gave up forgot all about it... until my 30s and OMFG!!! This is IT! I’ve been looking for this for TWENTY YEARS!!! :D :D :D :D