A question for the Americans

[gordonzola]

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

Comments

[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.