I think Velveeta isn't even legally "cheese"...it's "cheese food product" which means a bunch of chemicals, artificial stuff and sodium. There may be a tiny bit of something real in there, but it's not cheese and it's not enough to make a difference.

I grew up with Miracle Whip and I LOATHE it. My mother always said it was the same as mayonnaise, and I didn't find out any better until I left home, married, set up housekeeping on my own, and bought my first jar of Hellman's to mix into various sandwich fixin's. Different universe. Now I'm a mayonnaise abuser and eat it on french fries (chips), burgers, etcet etcet. Wish I had the time to make mayo from scratch -- that's what The District served when we took Jeri there for her birthday lunch. (Home made tomato ketchup, too.)

Spam is something else I can live very easily without.

There's a bunch of "food" out there right now that scares the crap out of me: meat glue (yeah, they "glue" pieces of meat scraps together to make steaks), HFCS, artificial sweeteners...not to mention a lot of the "frankenfood" that Monsanto is foisting on us and trying to make sure it's not labeled. And everything from chicken to beef that is fed everything from chicken shit ("chicken by-products") to corn -- cows were designed to eat GRASS, not corn. Corn fattens them up fast but it's a race to get to market weight before the corn rots them from the inside. Ugh!

I hate talking about this before dinner!

Linn