WTF is the difference between cheese and cheese food anyway?

[KitchenWitch]

[tk2kewl]

1. People eat cheese

Cheese eats cheese food

:shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. One comes from a cow..the other from a lab

[Worst Username Ever]

6. Yellow Lab or Black Lab?

Just kidding. Gross.

[tk2kewl]

8. LMFAO!

[arcane1]

3. cheese is food. Cheese food is not

:P

[xray s]

4. One is cheese...

...and one is a corporate marketing departments imitation of cheese.

[maveric]

5. One of them I buy. The other I dont.

I just dont like the sound of "cheese food" or "cheese product".
I buy and eat "cheese".

[Jessica]

7. Same as the difference between

juice & "fruit drink." x(

[Archae]

9. Or chocolate and "chocolate flavored."

Only REAL chocolate is in my place!

[bif]

10. Cheese food is a petroleum byproduct.

[BikeWriter]

11. Cheese actually has cheese in it. :-) n/t

[mcscajun]

12. Well, that did it...

...just thinking about cheese and cheese food sent me to the kitchen (well, it was time to start dinner anyway.)

Baked Macaroni and Cheese is on the menu tonight. Sauce made with Real Sharp Cheddar AND Velveeta (more of the former than the latter).

It'll be ready by 6:00 PM EST.

[Bertha Venation]

13. Humans eat cheese. Cheese eats cheese food.

:shrug:

[n2mark]

15. Cheese

is cheese, real cheese, cheese food is garbage.

[Inland]

14. More words in name, less cheese. By law.

Note the progression:
Cheese.
Cheese Food.
Processed Cheese Food.
Processed Imitation Cheese Food.
Plastic Shaped Like Processed Imitation Cheese Food

[jmowreader]

16. Cheese is pure cheese. Cheese food is not.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html

Pasteurized process cheese food may have dry milk, whey solids or anhydrous milkfat added. It must contain at least 51 percent cheese, less than 44 percent moisture and have at least 23 percent milkfat.

This from the USDA.

Don't even ask about pasteurized process cheese product.

[hfojvt]

17. a serious answer

for a change.
I was all up in arms about cheese food and cheese product and my sister read the label. It was basically cheese with skim milk added to it.
Now I am reading the label on the cheese product in my refrigerator and it looks different than I remember. It says "milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, salt, calcium phosphate, sodium citrate, whey protein concentrate, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid, apocarotenal, annato, enzymes, cheese culture"
So now I am wondering "where is the cheese?"
Then I also wonder, "what is cheese anyway?"
Probably I will be sorry that I asked.
People who love laws, sausages and cheese should not ever watch them being made - raisins too I might add.