What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?

governorkeagan@lemdro.id to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 92 points –

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It feels like such a waste.

EDIT: This is the type of cheese I am referring to. It comes wrapped in a piece of plastic then bundled together with x more and all of them get covered in plastic

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I have never encountered this product. Can you give a brand/product name example?

"American cheese". I searched for an image and conveniently Wikipedia shows one with the clarification that it's an "American cheese single".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese

But, imagine ten or twenty of those individually wrapped slices wrapped together in another bit of plastic.

You can hit an image search for "American cheese singles" and find a lot more examples.

Any cheese by Kraft labeled as "singles" would fit the bill. I've seen American, Swiss, and Mozzarella done this way. Italics as I cannot confirm other countries would consider it cheese.

check the labels folks, "Cheese food product" is called that because it cannot legally be called cheese.

I think that even in the US it is not considered cheese, but a cheese "product."

That's only because agriculture had really great lobbyists at one point. So we have really specific naming regulations.

It's just ground cheese with citrate.

Mmm pre chewed cheese!

I think it would be disingenuous to call it cheese since it has been processed, just like it is probably inappropriate to call a hot dog ground pork.

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