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Why is american cheese? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.