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The grams of waste per teaspoon of ketchup seems high.

What else has a super high packaging waste per consumable volume?

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Individually wrapped slices of cheese have always seemed pretty egregious to me

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That's actually an oxide layer of plastic that naturally forms on Kraft singles after the manufacturing process.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We have actual cheese in europe individually wrapped. It's a thing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked in the grocery department of a major retailer and Kraft singles came in on unrefrigerated pallets.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've never seen that. They always come in with the refrigerated dairy. Maybe the boxes of Velveeta loaves, but definitely not the singles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For that reason, alongside the important aspect of taste, I always recommend deli-style American. Kraft Deli Deluxe, or Land-o-Lakes, or any number of other brands.

Deli-style often comes in a brick, pre-sliced and offset for quickly peeling slices away from one another (like how restaurants do it). It’s firmer, due to a reduced milk content compared to the Kraft singles, and holds its shape better under heat while still being the perfect, melty sandwich cheese that American is. There’s a reason some of the best burger chains use deli-style American as their main cheese.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best advice I've received all day, and I had a meeting with a mortgage advisor earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Especially because wax paper works fine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe, but they last a lot longer in the fridge

I mean they used to. These days I definite prefer cheese to “cheese”