A question for the Americans

[gordonzola]

What cheese did you buy for Thanksgiving or No Thanks to Genocide Day celebrations/commemorations?

Comments

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

VG is another processed cheese, so it's a quintessentially american product, even though I associate veganism with britain more than the US. :]

Her site is inexact in two ways though:

1) It does not really melt. Not in the way that I understand cheese to melt. It kinda wilts an becomes wet. Weird. But that's better than straight-out drying.

2) VG is available in Toronto as well as Western Canada. It's recently disappeared from my natural foods store though, so I'm currently investigating this disappearance.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well this is a very American post so it's appropriate.

1. duh.

2. yeah, I dunno. It's our best selling non-cheese "cheese" and that's mostly through customer word of mouth. Angel hooked up with a much bigger company (Follow Your Heart who make that Veganaise and other stuff) and volume hasn't been an issue for a couple of years

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

We like Vegan Gourmet "cheese." Although I agree with the other person about how it doesn't really melt. But it doesn't scare me like Tofutti, either.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Tofutti is scary. I carry the non-hydrogenated "cream cheese" but nothing else. Though they promise it's changing soon, the sliced "cheese" is

1. not organic (rep: "well it is, but we just can't say that on the label." uh huh)
2. hydrogenated
3. has preservatives

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I think it's really plastic. :P

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well yeah. it's basically processed cheese made with no dairy. The government definition for processed cheese food is this: (my bold)

(a)(1) A pasteurized process cheese food is the food prepared by
comminuting and mixing, with the aid of heat, one or more of the
optional cheese ingredients prescribed in paragraph (c) of this section,
with one or more of the optional dairy ingredients prescribed in
paragraph (d) of this section, into a homogeneous plastic mass.

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

What I love best? The "optional" part. Geeze. Okay, I'm not buying the Tofutti "cheese" slices anymore.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh, don't get me wrong. that's the same for all fake cheese including the "Vegan Gourmet". And I reference the government definiton as an example of plastic food, the definition of fake cheese is non defined by government.

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should resign myself to sprinkling nutritional yeast on foodstuffs and be done with all things fake. Actually, it's my gf who's the vegan.