It's not cheese!

[Saraphim]

Me and a friend at work got into a discussion today about Velveeta (yes, it was a slow day http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif), and he says that it is cheese.
I told him that it was a "pasturized cheese product", kinda like Cheese Whiz. Real cheese has names like Cheddar, Swiss, etc. Velveeta is manufactured in a plant, like the one we work at. Real cheese is not.
Anyway, it was a ridiculous discussion to begin with, and I just wanted to get some other takes on the discussion.

[HUnewearl_Meira]

"American" cheese, such as Velveeta is a byproduct of the cheese-making process, usually cheddar. There's a great deal of cream that gets skimmed off the top of the vat of liquid that will eventually solidify into cheddar. Upon the observation that it is something that you can eat to no immediately apparent ill effects, it became marketted as a "cheese product".

Whether or not it's technically cheese is something to be questioned, I suppose, but it's made from all the same ingredients and merely comes from a different part of the process.

[Skorpius]

Velveeta is classified by the United States Food and Drug Administration as pasteurized process cheese spread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velveeta

[StarLionsX]

Hmmmmm.....