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Many of us think a little bit of cheese can't hurt, especially when it taste so good. However, you may be surprised to learn how the cheese you are eating is made and it just might make you want to skip it altogether!

The Reasons Why You Shouldn't Be Eating American Cheese Include:

What's to like about it as an adult? Is it the taste? Surely, any normally developed palate cannot think this stuff tastes good. The texture is gummy and the flavor is limp. It smells… sweaty. It feels sweaty. Honestly, it kind of looks sweaty. And yeah, it tastes sweaty, duh.

I'm not just offended by the taste and the sticky, floppy texture. It's not even real cheese! Everyone should know this already, but it bears repeating: American cheese is not even real cheese. And fake stuff makes people fat. Look, I even sat on my living-room floor with a paring knife and a tripod for three hours to make this stop-motion video about it for a college design class six years ago:

Why should anyone bother with fake and fattening Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product when there are so many righteous alternatives that are free of emulsifiers and saturated vegetable oils?

I love cheaper cheeses of objectively lower quality. I'm not a cheese purist, this is simply about occasion. And there's never an occasion for American.

There is, however, a special time for every other kind of cheese, even the cheap ones: string cheese is a dope snack, Fine Cut Shredded 4 Cheese Mexican is the only thing that suits Ortega tacos, and the cheddar that sits on the shelf next to the butter in the grocery store is exquisite on Triscuits. But when a server asks me if I want cheddar, blue, Swiss, or American atop my burger, I won't even consider the latter.

What's wrong with Havarti? Or Swiss, or provolone? They might not render down into liquid like American, but they can cement two pieces of toast together just fine.

At the bar, sometimes I just don't feel like drinking for various reasons. I sip a seltzer disguised as a vodka soda to avoid the incredulous “Why aren't you drinking?” queries, but inevitably an effervescent friend offers me and the rest of the group shots, and my fraudulence is exposed. I'll have to reluctantly explain why I just don't want to partake, ashamedly aware of my inability to engage with the moment, to participate in an experience that everyone else enjoys. This is how not liking American cheese feels.

Finished!

Now that you know some shocking reasons why American cheese may not be everything you thought, you might just want to go with a different kind next time you want to enjoy cheese. Did you know these things about American cheese already?

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Article Source: Thrillist