/ck/ - Food & Cooking

People actually think what it says on the label represents what that product actually contains, if you'd take a moment to read the FDA labeling guide you will quickly realize that most proceed food you're eating is a chemistry experiment disguised as food. I'm pretty confidant there isn't even a legal requirement to list ingredients by quantity in product, you can use a minutiae amount of milk in your actual product but still list it first as to appear to be the main ingredient. You have to also realize that cheese must fall within a certain criteria to be called "cheese", but american slices are just that "american slices" they are not cheese, they never claim to be cheese, so they do not require meeting the cheese criteria because what you're ultimately selling is not cheese.

https://www.fda.gov/media/81606/download

Is this actually a thing? I always thought this was just a slang term people use in US restaurants when ordering pie. Why would you put cheese on a sweet pie? I can understand maybe on a steak and ale, or a kidney pie, some sort of savory pie atleast. But apple pie with cheese just sounds revolting, is it just apple pies you subject to this, or all pies?