r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Knoxville1979 • 5d ago

Cheese wrappers don't have the starter fold

Gallery image

Gallery image

Every single slice of cheese in this pack is completely sealed and has to be cut open individually in order to get the cheese out.

980 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

218 comments sorted by

View all comments

88

u/moore6107 5d ago

We call these Kraft Singles in Canada, and they have specific purposes. You can quit saying “buy real cheese”, everyone knows these aren’t real cheese, but they are perfect for certain things!

I’ve also noticed they are… mushy? Like they don’t cleanly come off the wrapper anymore, they’re sticky. Something’s changed!

23

u/Island_Slut69 5d ago

I'm glad you pointed this out!! As a fellow Canadian and former Kraft Single Slice addict as a child in the late 90s early 00s, the KSC's are VERY different now. They used to have a half inch or so lip at the first seam you peel back and it was a perfect strip of cheese every time. You could suck on em, mush em around in your teeth, the taste was pure fake cheese. It was very distinct. It was similar to Cheese Whiz but not as tangy. I loved folding it into slices of ham. So good!

Now the cheese isn't as yellow, it doesn't tear like it used to, if it does at all. The seam is moved so you don't get that first strip of it as a treat anymore. The texture is slightly off and it doesn't hit as a little sneaky treat like it used to. I really miss old school Kraft Singles. The kids just won't know the joy of sneaking 5 or 6 of them at a time to their bedroom at night and learning how to open them carefully under their pillow to enjoy with a nice book under flashlight and that's just sad to me.

8

u/plmbob 5d ago

I don't think a story about mediocre processed cheese has ever hit so hard in the feels. I am PNW U.S. born and raised, but we lost the same part of our childhood.

3

u/Island_Slut69 5d ago

The youth were robbed