TOTALLY GEEKED!

Dona Worry Be Happy wrote:

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I don’t even know why you all are at each other's throats. IKWTDS and I started it.

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 We didn't start anything except throwing a topic out there.  Apparently people are passionate about their american cheese.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Pollan says everything he's learned about food and health can be summed up in seven words: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

Probably the first two words are most important. "Eat food" means to eat real food -- vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and, yes, fish and meat -- and to avoid what Pollan calls "edible food-like substances."

Here's how:
•Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.
•Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
•Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.
• Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.
•It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"
•Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.
•Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.

www.webmd.com/food-recipes/20090323/7-rules-for-eating

Yes, he's crazy!! The man is clearly an idiot!

Listen to husker instead.

-- Edited by weltschmerz on Monday 18th of April 2016 06:28:12 PM

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 I find it hilarious that you quote this crap when convenient, but argue with me about genetically modified food.  LOL. 

IKWTDS - you can now get REAL American cheese.  It's been reinvented by the organic industry.

 

Slices, 8oz

It never seemed right that the cheese that represents our nation—American cheese—was not actually cheese, but processed cheese food (what the heck is that, anyway?). It seemed even less right that our nation's children eat an awful lot of that processed cheese food. What choices did parents have? So we decided it was time to reinvent the American classic. It took some time and a lot of experimentation to get our recipe right, but we've finally come up with a cheese that has the mild, melty cheesy goodness kids love, with none of the emulsifiers that worry parents. And of course we make it with the creamy organic milk produced on our small family farms. If that's not truly American, we don't know what is!

• 100% Real, unprocessed
  American Cheese!
• Mild, cheesy taste that kids love and
  parents approve (Preferred 2:1 over
  Horizon American PasteurizedProcessed Cheese Food)
• Perfect for grilled cheese
  sandwiches, burgers, snacks
  and the school lunchbox
• Made with certified organic
  milk. No antibiotics,
  toxic pesticides,synthetichormones or GMOs.
• From Organic
  Valley familyfarms

 

 

Hmmm

I still don't trust it.

W'sell back to burgers.

Slater 50/50 makes theirs with 50% beef and 50% ground bacon, of course yo can also add bacon, bacon ketchup, bacon cheddar cheese and a bacon bun.

One month they had a 100% ground bacon burger.

-- Edited by cadiver on Tuesday 19th of April 2016 12:20:37 PM

American cheese/product/whatever you want to call it has its purpose. On burgers, on chili, in grilled cheese sandwiches....but I like velveeta, too, which my brother calls, "the cheese that never dies." Although I don't eat either very often. I had a block of Velveeta in the back of my fridge I discovered last week which was hard as a rock. Since it has an extremely long shelf life, my guess is it's been in there for a few years. I guess I need to pay more attention to what's in the back of my refrigerator.

Ohfour wrote:

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Government Cheese. That was the BEST stuff!!!!!

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 YES!!!!!!!!!!  My grandfather used to go pick up a block and share with me.  

Lexxy wrote:

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I see a mushroom Swiss burger in my future. Or maybe TGIF's Jack Daniels burger.

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Did someone say Jack Daniel's?   

I'll go!

LOL!

Cheddar is good, too! Extra Sharp! I love TJ's NY Extra Sharp Cheddar!

Extra sharp for most things, yes.
But I like mild for grilled cheese, and the Vermont Sharp for things like mac and cheese.

We all prefer mild or medium cheddar chunk cheese. Man, we go thru a lot of cheese.

That's my two cents worth folks. 

Lawyerlady wrote:

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I went to the store last night and bought 7 different kinds of cheese. I blame all of you.

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 Did you set your alarm for the crack of dawn so you could post that?