Remember that huge Facebook freakout your friends threw over "sawdust" (plant cellulose) being added to Shaky Cheese to prevent caking and no matter what you said they continued to believe that it was sawdust?
Anyway. Eff FB.
Yay Shaky Cheese.
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In case anyone else believes that there is wood in cheese- https://abbeythefoodscientist.com/is-there-really-wood-pulp-and-sawdust-in-your-parmesan-cheese/
People were so INVESTED in believing that sawdust hoax that they screamed at me when I tried to explain plant cellulose.
And that's when I started backing away from FB.
These were otherwise intelligent people. Not RWNJ.
Most of them heavily Left.
It was crazy.
@Shelter I mean, it is often made from sawdust, but it's usually other plant waste. It's fairly harmless, but it's still a way to rip off consumers by adding non-nutritive filler.
In ancient Rome, adding fillers like ashes or sawdust to bread would get you a hand reduction.
My concern isn't that it's a dangerous product it's that it inflates volume and weight without value.
It's totally valid to be pissed over a label that says 100% cheese if cellulose is added to prevent caking.
But the sawdust freakout was wild.
@Shelter Like the "pink slime" thing. I tried to tell people "that's what's been in the hot dogs and bologna you eat all along".
I have discovered that MOST people want to remain unaware of how the sausage gets made.