Except Kraft (who emigrated to the US from Canada) patented sodium citrate stabilised cheese in 1916. This was done for logistical reasons since it didn’t need refrigerated storage rather than being explicitly designed as a burger condiment. Kraft was a cheese wholesaler before he was a cheese maker.
American cheese took off in part because was used in rations for ww1 being energy dense and shelf stable.
It was also used as rations in ww2 which was due to a quirk of history before operation paperclip, which was predominantly done out of cold war paranoia.
I get that it’s fun to dunk on America, but it should be possible to do so without resorting to a purely fictitious history.
I hate this so much,
Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don’t support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.
And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it’s debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.