What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? - eviltoast

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It feels like such a waste.

EDIT: This is the type of cheese I am referring to. It comes wrapped in a piece of plastic then bundled together with x more and all of them get covered in plastic

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It bundles them together. Imagine buying a loose handful of slices, it doesn’t work well.

    • governorkeagan@lemdro.idOP
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      1 year ago

      I’ve bought plenty like that, they’re sliced and bundled together in a plastic container. Unless there is some substance between them that I’m unaware of

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        1 year ago

        I was talking about the outer plastic.

        The kind of cheese slices I’m thinking of are sort of a solidified cheeze-wiz substance, I suspect that if there was nothing between them they’d merge back together into the blob they were probably originally extruded from.

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          Not only that, but iirc they are packaged in liquid form and it solidifies into flat sheets as they are pressed together.

      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Those aren’t individually wrapped in slippery plastic.

        That kind of “cheese” is super melty, you can get American cheese made just like other cheese, it just isn’t this.

        • My point is that deli slices of American cheese don’t come individually wrapped. They’re usually wrapped in wax paper and tossed in a bag. It’s only the artificially shelf stable shit that does. Unfortunately people are lazy and don’t want to wait 5 minutes so it’s more popular.