When I moved to Boston my Dad and brother drove out there with me to help move boxes. We found a little diner by my apartment to have lunch and my brother got a tuna melt. He really liked the taste of the white cheese that was on it. When the server came by he asked her what kind of cheese it was. “American cheese.” She said. We were confused. American cheese was always orange every place we had ever been. The next day we went to the cheese section of the grocery store and sure enough all the American cheese was white. I found lots of funny little regional things like that from moving across the country.
we carry both white and yellow at the the deli where i work in North Carolina. I don’t see the difference, but i don’t eat much America chease.
lol. the exact opposite thing happened to me when i was little- i went down to my grandma’s in Oklahoma and all the american cheese was
ORANGE. i wouldn’t eat it.
Cheese that comes with peppers inside is the only cheese worth contemplating.
Mmmm, pepper jack.
As a deli worker, the fact that there’s both white and yellow American annoys me to no end. Some customers seem to have gotten it into their mind that white is somehow fancier and superior to yellow American cheese. One time we were out of white and a customer asked for it. I told her we didn’t have any more and that we did have yellow, they were pretty much the same and she could sample it if she wanted to. She acted like I insulted her mother. She began lecturing me about how she would never buy yellow because it was disgusting. I was just like “okay, whatever lady. I don’t care that much about your cheese problems.” On the flipside, we have the parents who only want the yellow American cheese because their little brats won’t eat anything else and heaven forbid they force precious junior to eat something that isn’t a color he approves of! Yes, I’m cranky.
You would be too if you had to deal with this every day.