{"id":137310,"date":"2018-10-11T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-cheese.html"},"modified":"2018-10-11T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:51:44","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-american-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-cheese.html","title":{"rendered":"The Rise and Fall of American Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the predictions of the death of Kraft American Singles are a bit exaggerated, but sales are flat or declining, restaurants are touting cheese as an a distinguishing ingredient rather than a glop, and Americans are buying more stuff that isn&#39;t American Cheese Food.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a good thing, I think, though I&#39;ll still grab some singles to make a quick toasted cheese sandwich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-10\/american-cheese-is-no-longer-america-s-big-cheese'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/OECVDzA4Q8ANrh1vOfRKUz6n7oPmlQzVDczx4O9JcI8-TPrdP7Squnfd0kf1zm6m2Kx1f6AZrWg9MjVaR3SIlPNQxRvr1cG5GcUE-ETf1CPjJHTzeGO7ICduet5F=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-10-10\/american-cheese-is-no-longer-america-s-big-cheese'>Millennials Kill Again. The Latest Victim? American Cheese<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAmerican cheese will never die. It has too many preservatives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/KZg9Yee3Jpg'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the predictions of the death of Kraft American Singles are a bit exaggerated, but sales are flat or declining, restaurants are touting cheese as an a distinguishing ingredient rather than a glop, and Americans are buying more stuff that isn&#39;t American Cheese Food. Which is a good thing, I think, though I&#39;ll still grab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-cheese.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Rise and Fall of American Cheese&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136629,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/on-cheesy-mac.html","url_meta":{"origin":137310,"position":0},"title":"On Cheesy Mac","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-May-18 9:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Macaroni and Cheese is an American staple, but its history is an interesting one, as is how it fits into various subcultures in the US across racial and economic lines. 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