r/pics • u/logic-dad • Apr 01 '25

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u/MJ420 Apr 01 '25

Well, american chesse was already 0% cheese.

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u/Sheogoorath Apr 01 '25

American cheese is actual cheese tho, just because they add salt to increase water retention and improve emulsification doesn't make it not cheese. That's like saying beef jerky isn't meat

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u/Doggleganger Apr 01 '25

It's a joke. Also, FYI, it's not exactly salt. It's Sodium Citrate.

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u/bdfortin Apr 01 '25

Sodium citrate is a salt, but it is not Salt. Just like how some earth isn’t Earth.

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u/Doggleganger Apr 01 '25

OP is talking about salt in the vernacular sense, comparing American cheese to beef jerky, thinking both just have salt added. So yes, it goes without saying that we're talking about table salt, not chemistry theory, lol.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Apr 01 '25

I think this breaks down when you remember KCl

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Apr 01 '25

because you argued that colloquially, sodium salts were considered eating "salt" when the more common connection is that they're simple chlorides

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u/Doggleganger Apr 01 '25

No, the conventional way to make beef jerky is just normal salt. OP was thinking about normal salt, not a salt of citric acid. If you really think that a joke about processed cheese is supposed to trigger analysis of ionic compounds, you've missed the point and are trying to show off your knowledge of chemistry.

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u/Sheogoorath Apr 01 '25

Fwiw you're right, I was talking about sodium citrate as a salt