A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say “WHAT’S ELON’S CUM TASTE LIKE?,” and “NAZI CAR,” and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc.

    • @Rooty
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      338 minutes ago

      Cybertruck owners are huge fragile bitches, who’d have known?

    • @SPRUNT
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      136 hours ago

      Just wanted to say that the hate on American cheese is unjustified. American cheese is just cheddar that has been heated to 170f (iirc) for long enough to kill bacteria and make it shelf-stable. They add an emulsifier (again, iirc) to help it bind better and have a more pleasant texture.

      All other criticisms of America are valid, but the cheese doesn’t deserve the hate it gets.

      • MrsDoyle
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        52 hours ago

        pleasant texture

        I’d go with “rubbery”.

        • @SPRUNT
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          11 hour ago

          “Pleasant” in the context of what it would be otherwise. My understanding is that, without the emulsifier, it would be crumbly and kinda chalky, and not hold a form very well.

      • @[email protected]
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        You forgot to mention that it’s watered down. That’s what the emulsifier is for, to make the oils in the cheese mix well with the added water. The concept is fine - for some applications - if it were only that, but this is hyper-processed American food we’re talking about here. Gotta pad out that ingredient list:

        CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SKIM MILK, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, LACTIC ACID, MILK, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE, ANNATTO (COLOR).

        The above is the standard Kraft singles ingredient list, and at a glance is the shortest one I saw on their website.

      • @ParadoxSeahorse
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        33 hours ago

        Literally this is why it gets hate. It’s not remotely Cheddar. Real Cheddar is deliberately none of these things. I love a crunchy cheese crystal and a crumbly organic texture. To each their own, but it’s not Cheddar, barely cheese. I’d have it in a burger, but only because so few places will melt real cheese properly. Brie is pretty good in a burger. Is Somerset Brie really Brie? Time for a Frenchman to tell me to gtfo…

        • @SPRUNT
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          33 hours ago

          I didn’t say it was cheddar. I said it was made from cheddar. It’s decidedly not cheddar, which is why it’s not called “cheddar”.

      • @Botunda
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        44 hours ago

        American Cheese is not actually cheese. It is cheese food product. Even deli American cheese is not cheese.

        • @roofuskit
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          11 hour ago

          Legally they can’t label it as cheese, but get anyway with cheese being part of the name.

      • @andros_rex
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        54 hours ago

        IMHO, it has three purposes:

        1. a grilled cheese on cheap white bread with enough butter to guarantee an acid reflux episode
        2. melted on Chef Boyardee ravioli
        3. on a slice of apple pie

        If your Kraft singles are too precious, I think the Dollar Tree brands stray even further from gods light.

        • @smort
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          Wait wtf you put American cheese on your apple pie?!?

          Are you from the US? I’ve never heard of that, and honestly I’m horrified and intrigued

          • @andros_rex
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            115 minutes ago

            I think it might be an “older people in the south” thing. (Like all boomers and older I’ve talked to about it know about it, usually not younger) I worked at a diner for a bit, and it would be Silent Generation types that would order it.

            It’s pretty good, but real cheddar would be better. It’s that similar salty/sweet combo that makes French fries and a McFlurry better than sex.

    • @AbidanYre
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      55 hours ago

      Post his picture everywhere so everyone knows who he is… and he never has to pay for his own drinks again, I suppose?

    • @[email protected]
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      76 hours ago

      I’m sure the synthetic oilly shit has a wonderful reaction with that unprotected stainless steel.

      Not to mention that depending on force of the throw, and precise angle of the impact of cheese slice, the thing could start falling apart.

      … which now I think about it, also explains the:

      “hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”

    • @[email protected]
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      3510 hours ago

      Remember that to these people the law exists to oppress.

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    • Alphane Moon
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      6211 hours ago

      “hey police, someone threw cheese at my car, I’m in fear for my life.”

      This had me chuckling.