American cheese is any cheddar or colby cheese with a little bit of baking soda and citric acid (lemon or lime juice) added in (which makes sodium citrate). It changes the texture of the cheese when cold but lets it melt easier. Lot's of dipping or melting cheeses do the exact same.
In Canada, they are called "processed cheese slices" instead of "American Cheese". They are still crap.
Use real Canadian cheese. Actually, Poutine is made with cheese curds.
I am from The Netherlands. I am hoping the Netherlands and Canada will reach a trade agreement on Dutch cheese. Canada will rebrand it and flood the American markets with it! 🧀 No tariffs!
Smoked Gouda is really popular in Canada. Is it authentic NL cheese or is that a Canadian thing? There's quite a bit of flavoured Gouda here, wondering if you eat it like that. Wish we could get NL butter here. NL & FR butter are better than any of our local stuff.
Oh dear. They're curds!
Pale little misshapen balls that squeak.
Mild flavour, touch of saltiness.
Curds!
Try them. Prepare to have your mind blown. They're delicious, either cold or melty.
Black Diamond makes processed cheese slices like Kraft does - Kraft are made in Canada but still an American company so profits go there, Recommend keeping the money in Canada. You can also get real cheese slices from Balderson that are even better - Balderson is Ontario based.
Kraft Extra Cheddar are the best processed slices. Yes - issues with American HQ and profits but many, many of Canada's companies are American owned. Because we're "ripping them off" right?
James Lewis Kraft (/ˈkræft/; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902.
Cheese slices … using slices will do you no good… it will unlock the gates of hell and every demonic chef shall haunt you and make your cakes fall, your bread won’t rise and your cream will curdle. Don’t piss them off , or you will
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We make poutine frequently in my WA home, with fallapart brisket under the gravy and cheese curds. Juat make sure they are as fresh as you can find. Old cheese curds lose their hallmark *squick squick* sound. Fred Meyer (for me) has a cheesery that sells decent curds.
Sadly this is why the JFK juniors of the world get taken seriously. Americans are not citizens they are products to be monetized to every possible business to make as much profit on their backs as possible.
I could smuggle a block or two across if you let me stay for a few years. You won’t even notice I’m there. I’m little. Just while the US is going through some things.
Oh dear lord. Poutine and “slices” do not belong in the same neighbourhood.
That processed cheese shit belongs south of the border. We prefer real cheeses here. Although… I think there was a legit cheddar slice made briefly before Canadians torched it.
No plastic cheese on this side of the border, please!! Fortunately, you can get real cheese slices. Many deli counters make their own - hopefully from local cheese. Ask! There are also packaged varieties but you have to look to find the blue cow.
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Struggling not to make a sarcastic reply here due to my location, but you wouldn’t be able to make cheese curd slices unless you did it by hand. I have had small ones whole on burgers before and it was predictably awesome
I liked the Govt cheese when I was a kid. Was way better than the cheap American cheese from the grocery. It is still available as "Butchers cheese" in some grocery stores.
And if you'll just consider for a moment my fondness for Canadian fatback, you'll understand that I'm having lots of cognitive dissonance eating my cheeseburger with Canadian cheese and bacon on it while trying to maintain my dignity as an American!
A) as every one has already said, poutine needs cheese curds, not slices
And B) yes, there are Canadian cheese slices , by Black Diamond. Superior in taste to Kraft singles, IMO
Armstrong makes a decent sandwich slice, but the best I've had (so far) is Bothwell. Right now, I'm enjoying a Bothwell combo pack which includes medium cheddar, Monterey Jack with *hot* peppers, and mozzarella.
I haven’t seen the Armstrong slices, but we do get their block cheese. Haven’t heard of Bothwell. I’m in the Maritimes, so it might be a local thing.
We’re not big on processed cheese, so we get the deli style slices in packets. Can’t remember the brand though.
Lot of Canadian cheeses, but for the equivalent of "processed cheese" (it's not called American Cheese here) like a basic kid-friendly thing with no flavour, that'd be Marble Cheddar.
no Ontario makes many cheeses, as does Quebec, From various cheddars to all the soft and hard cheeses. Curd is what poutine is traditionally made with.
If you're ever in northern Vermont/New Hampshire and the border is still open check out Laiterie de Coaticook Ltd. (Coaticook Quebec) for REAL cheese curds and REAL dairy.
Cheese curds all the way!
Experimentation is risky. Regretfully tried a poutine from a restaurant in Quebec (province) trying to be 'unique' using Blue Cheese (not curds) in their poutine. Disgusting does not cover it. Think about it: gravy and melted blue cheese... kind of smelled like vomit.
The Canadians in these replies don't seem to understand that a flat rectangle is required for sandwich slices, or that this post was about sandwiches at all.
"American cheese", specifically the processed form, was invented by James L. Kraft, a Canadian immigrant who moved to the United States and founded Kraft Foods. He patented a method for making pasteurized cheese in 1916, which became the foundation for the processed cheese we know today.
Yes, and if you were to try to sell poutine up here made with processed cheese, you'd probably be put in the hospital. 100% if you tried that in Quebec.
Yes I think so. (Checking ….) sadly I have been unable to find the population of the village but the Nation (municipality in eastern ON) has just under 13K. So maybe?
I will definitely be picking some up next time I'm in 'berta, though I once told a guy with Alberta plates that his suspiciously clean lifted Ram was dumb, and now have a province-wide bounty on my head.
And just to get something going here!!
Hawaiian pizza, despite its name, was invented in Canada, specifically at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, by Greek-born Canadian restaurant owner Sam Panopoulos in 1962.
As a Canadian, I buy Black Diamond cheese slices, a Canadian cheese company with it's factory in Belleville Ontario.... That said, poutine is cheese curds, which I'd use Armstrong's (also Canadian)
that's the thing. There are oodles of great cheeses made in America. "American" is, in theory, one of hundreds of varieties. But to NAME any such cheese "American" is stupid.
Hence there is no "Canadian" cheese. When I'm at the shop, there are dozens of French cheeses, but not "FRENCH CHEESE."
Probably something similar to KD... A pasta adjacent product with a cheese~ish powder in a convenient package.
That bring said, Canada does have many native cheeses, the most famous of which would be Oka cheese, and cheese curds.
River Rat Cheese in the Thousand Islands region in (Clayton) NY has great cheese curd and they ship. No tariff, but honestly, prob not as good as Canada’s curd…even if they’re on the border.
Not with cheese slices!! You need cheese curds and chicken gravy, (never beef for me). I also like a sprinkling of raw, diced spanish onion in the mix. 🇨🇦
I tried poutine for the first time just a couple of years ago on a trip to Banff national park, so my appreciation exceeds my knowledge of the dish exponentially
I know and bravo to Quebec for doing that and it's turned into a national dish. Heard a Black comedienne from Georgia ask, "how in the world did we not figure this out decades ago" Lmao
😂😂😂 the simple things aren’t always the easiest thing to think of! It’s a big and funny debate here, where exactly this was invented.. I vote for Warwick! I learned that in my visit there au « festival du fromage » where Jean Leloup performed a memorable show!
Now don't come after me, but in a moment of "craving but caught without curds", we took some Babybels and tore them in quarters...and it was pretty freaking awesome poutine.
You mean not even a can hiding in the back of the cupboard or an envelope tucked in your spice cupboard? Does this happen!? Lol
Some butter, flour, broth (or bouillion & water), s+p in a pinch?
Beyond that, just go with salt and malt vinegar and try again tomorrow. 😉
Recepie: make a roux (butter and flour) add beef stock and chicken stock, barbecue spices, a spoon (or two) of ketchup and a drop of worcertershire sauce. I personally add onions and cayene. BON APETIT! 🥓
Poutine secret fresh cheese curds. So delicious and the sauce. Perfection. Blue Cow Black Diamond. With push to buy Canadian huge selection of Made in Canada sites which will have you drooling. I'm headed to our fridge after reading the descriptions.
Let him do it,you can only get real squeeky cheeze in quebec anyway fresh enough unless you own a private jet,we have dairy cross canada but none are local to us,in mb we have botwell,believe is armstrong in south ontario.But yo dude its a big freaken country.
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Use real Canadian cheese. Actually, Poutine is made with cheese curds.
2nd, never, ever use cheese slices on poutine.
3rd, tariffs are worth paying for Canadian cheese😍
Pale little misshapen balls that squeak.
Mild flavour, touch of saltiness.
Curds!
Try them. Prepare to have your mind blown. They're delicious, either cold or melty.
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Sorry.
James Lewis Kraft (/ˈkræft/; December 11, 1874 – February 16, 1953) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and inventor and the founder of Kraft Foods Inc. Kraft immigrated to the United States from Canada in 1902.
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So it's like a smorrebrod, topped with fries, cheese curds, gravy. The NATO of sandwiches?
Which is fitting considering what our government allows air corporations to do to us.
Stop posting crap on social media, son. You're already such a disappointment to us.
That processed cheese shit belongs south of the border. We prefer real cheeses here. Although… I think there was a legit cheddar slice made briefly before Canadians torched it.
If I pay $5.49 for 11 slices, do you pay:
a) $5.49
b) $6.83
c) everything
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Also, yes, we know how to slice cheese. The 49th parallel is thankfully not some magical line where cheese suddenly becomes unsliceable.
Also if you brought that idea to the St-Albert Cheese Collective, they’d likely sign you on with a bonus and a nice big bag ‘o’ squeaky cheese.👇🏻😁
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I'm becoming continental!
And poor...
And B) yes, there are Canadian cheese slices , by Black Diamond. Superior in taste to Kraft singles, IMO
We’re not big on processed cheese, so we get the deli style slices in packets. Can’t remember the brand though.
And American cheese is just plastic. Don't eat plastic, kids.
We're both curious and gotta know. 🤠
Oh and I assume we're talking about Bison milk and not 'milk imported from Buffalo NY', lol.
Sounds dangerous 🫠
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_mozzarella
I like watching cheese being made...not a big eater so I'm not familiar with any of it.
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Experimentation is risky. Regretfully tried a poutine from a restaurant in Quebec (province) trying to be 'unique' using Blue Cheese (not curds) in their poutine. Disgusting does not cover it. Think about it: gravy and melted blue cheese... kind of smelled like vomit.
The cheese will tell you very politely to fuck off.
It may not be authentic, but it’s what I have on hand, so it’ll always be poutine to me.
Tangentially, if Denmark just happened to loan Greenland to Canada, that would also be acceptable.
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Completely different!!!!!
1. Dear Lord do not allow this person to use a cheese slice and call it poutine. This will make a Canada Goose self-immolate.
2. Use cheese curds. Best brand is Bothwell Squeakers (small town Canadian) but shredded block cheese also works.
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Hawaiian pizza, despite its name, was invented in Canada, specifically at the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, by Greek-born Canadian restaurant owner Sam Panopoulos in 1962.
This began the War of 1812, and began many other wars over the course of history... albeit mostly cheese related wars.
1) using processed cheese
2) not pouring gravy over it.
But also yes.
https://www.loblaws.ca/en/singles-original-thick-slices/p/21189807_EA
Poutine is squeaky cheese curds.
Any other cheese is not poutine.
Sold here as American cheese is processed “cheese food”. There are lots of small dairies making real cheese.
Hence there is no "Canadian" cheese. When I'm at the shop, there are dozens of French cheeses, but not "FRENCH CHEESE."
I'm saying "that's stupid."
That bring said, Canada does have many native cheeses, the most famous of which would be Oka cheese, and cheese curds.
ou could buy poutine sauce to dunk your sandiwch too
https://www.st-hubert.com/en/grocery-products/canned-sauces/poutine-gravy.html
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"...squik...squik...?"
I'm afraid my colloquial pronunciation may lead to an injustice against cheese
Squeak squeak maybe?
I tried poutine for the first time just a couple of years ago on a trip to Banff national park, so my appreciation exceeds my knowledge of the dish exponentially
God bless Canada 🫡🇨🇦
Some butter, flour, broth (or bouillion & water), s+p in a pinch?
Beyond that, just go with salt and malt vinegar and try again tomorrow. 😉
They fry those things down here.