Everything food in Japan

[matsuki]

Kuro, that Kraft powdered, buttery cheese stuff is fucking addictive!! It's not that I want to eat it...I have no choice!

[kurogane]

He he. Good retro pull. Maybe I am a recovering addict? I find it gross in a Clockwork Orange aversion reaction way. It smells weird too. Besides, if you butter up the grated cheese it's yummy and real. But to each his own..............

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'm with matsuki on the Kraft fake mac n' cheese. I usually hate the frufru 5-cheese restaurant versions in the US.

[kurogane]

Oh, this is no froufrou Chef's Version, and 5 cheeses is 4 too many. It's just not chemically induced. Well, technically I suppose it is, but not synthetic chemical induced. I know what you mean, though. Nobody seems to quite believe I don't like Kraft Dinner. I rarely enjoy Chef'ed up versions of normal shit. The $45 cheeseburger in Van I had was sort of blah, and the patty way too thick and juicy; really nice proper bun, though, but it was more like a Japanese Hamburg steak in a bun. All my yuppy friends raved about it of course, but that was mostly because it was $45 for a cheeseburger I suspect. This New Credulity in All Things Foodified is weerd, man. Orwell would be in tears.

[matsuki]

...but if it ends up tasting like the Kraft stuff, isn't that a whole lot of work for no payoff?

I know many here don't like the artificial looking neon orange "cheddar" that's so common in the US but then I found the coloring most are using is some sort of natural (and good for you) stuff so it's not like they're using antifreeze to color things to be more appetizing.

[kurogane]

Well, no, because it doesn't taste like Kraft Dinner; it tastes like food made from..............food. It's that taste of KD I dislike. It tastes or smells like powdered cleaning fluid. But when I do make Macaroni & Cheese it definitely isn't that deli gourmet style SJ mentioned.

I still remember when they came out with uncoloured cheddar (i.e. whiteish) back home. I was about 18. My father used to have knipshitts if my mother forgot to be sure to buy Real Cheddar, which is orange, btw. And even back then it wasn't Red Dye No. 666, as you said. Then again, Japanese commenting on anything cheese related is a touch rich. I have friends that can't stomach anything but Yukijirushi, and that's not even cheese. I wonder what the percentage of Jpn is that have never ever tried ａｃｔｕａｌ　cheese, by which I mean stuff that says チーズ　ｏｎ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｌａｓｓｉｆｉｃａｔｉｏｎ　ｌａｂｅｌ．

[matsuki]

It was actually GG and some of the other Ozzie mafia here that were commenting on the color of North American Cheddar...the locals seem totally used to the processed stuff. I've seen that processed sliced shit used at "nice" restaurants as a topping...

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