bethzaring
Master Chef
Well folks, lets just duke it out right now
I have not thought of Velvetta in decades, since my childhood. I love cheese and spend time loitering around cheese counters when I visit stores that have them. I do not find Velvetta cheese in the refrigerated cheese counters I visit, thus it has not been on my mind. BUT this past week, when I went to the market for some onions I cruised past the cheese counter to see the offerings, nothing there that caught my interest . But just past the cheese counter, on a regular shelf, was VELVETTA, in boxes, not refrigerated. How can grocery stores do that? Also on the Velvetta shelf were those green canisters of parmesan cheese. Again, how can parmesan cheese not be refrigerated? My guess is that it is not real food.
I chuckled when mylegsbig recently said he wanted to use the best ingredients in a home made version of hamburger helper and was intending to use Velvetta, I was thinking, I don't think so. If you really want to use the best ingredients, please get rid of the Velvetta. I also want to use the best ingredients in the foods I prepare and Velvetta does not make the cut, plastic tasting water added to some processed cheese food. And I now realize it is not even refrigerated in the grocery stores, that is a big red flag for me. Real food is perishable. If Velvetta is not refrigerated, then it can not be real food.
The intent of this post is to get folks to think about the ingredients they buy and use. Of course I fully realize that we consumers vote with our dollars. If people stop buying velvetta, it will stop being offered. But by the amount of dry shelf space that was devoted to velvetta, that ain't gonna happen soon.
I have not thought of Velvetta in decades, since my childhood. I love cheese and spend time loitering around cheese counters when I visit stores that have them. I do not find Velvetta cheese in the refrigerated cheese counters I visit, thus it has not been on my mind. BUT this past week, when I went to the market for some onions I cruised past the cheese counter to see the offerings, nothing there that caught my interest . But just past the cheese counter, on a regular shelf, was VELVETTA, in boxes, not refrigerated. How can grocery stores do that? Also on the Velvetta shelf were those green canisters of parmesan cheese. Again, how can parmesan cheese not be refrigerated? My guess is that it is not real food.
I chuckled when mylegsbig recently said he wanted to use the best ingredients in a home made version of hamburger helper and was intending to use Velvetta, I was thinking, I don't think so. If you really want to use the best ingredients, please get rid of the Velvetta. I also want to use the best ingredients in the foods I prepare and Velvetta does not make the cut, plastic tasting water added to some processed cheese food. And I now realize it is not even refrigerated in the grocery stores, that is a big red flag for me. Real food is perishable. If Velvetta is not refrigerated, then it can not be real food.
The intent of this post is to get folks to think about the ingredients they buy and use. Of course I fully realize that we consumers vote with our dollars. If people stop buying velvetta, it will stop being offered. But by the amount of dry shelf space that was devoted to velvetta, that ain't gonna happen soon.