Slice Cheese facts
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In 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That's 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it's rules and capped the burger at 4x4.
In 2008, McDonald's saved $278,850,000 by removing one of the two slices of cheese from the McDouble Cheeseburger.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 28 of the best facts about Slice Cheese I managed to collect.
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Plastic-wrapped American cheese slices aren't slices at all and are actually put on the plastic as a warm blob that's flattened into a slice shape as it cools.
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In New York City, while its delicious bagels are not subject to a sales tax if they are whole, buying an ‘altered’ (i.e. sliced or with cream cheese) bagel will increase the sales tax by 8¢.
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According to the USDA, grilled cheese and PBJ are not sandwiches. A sandwich is "a meat or poultry filling between two slices of bread, a bun, or a biscuit."
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Peanut butter packaged in single slices like cheese is a failed invention.
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In 1851, Benjamin T. Babbitt became the first manufacturer to put soap bars in wrappers. Soap was previously sliced and weighed, much like cheese.
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The Suicide Burger is 800 calories. It contains 175 mg of cholesterol and almost 2,500 mg of sodium. This item is on the 'secret menu" and contains four burger patties, four cheese slices, bacon, and special sauce.
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There was a man in Philadelphia known as the "Swiss Cheese Pervert", because he would flash women while holding up a large slice of swiss cheese in an attempt to solicit sex acts.
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New York City pizzerias that served slices and refused to use Al Capone's cheese would be firebombed
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American cheese is not really cheese so it must be labeled "cheese product" or "American Singles". This is the cheese that comes in slices individually wrapped in plastic.
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One slice of Costco Cheese pizza has 700 Calories, or 28% of your daily suggested caloric intake.
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Costco Food Court slice of cheese pizza has over 700 calories!
Peanut butter producers tried to promote peanut butter in slices (individually wrapped like cheese) - source
The Heart Attack Grill’s “Quadruple Bypass Burger” has 9,982 calories and has been identified as one of the "world's best junk foods". It consists of 4 half-pound beef patties, 20 strips of bacon, 8 slices of American cheese, a whole tomato and half an onion served in a bun coated with lard. - source
McDonalds’ corporate policy is to serve a half a slice of cheese on the Filet-O-Fish so that the cheese doesn’t “overpower the delicate taste of whitefish” mounted to the side of the sandwich to match its advertised picture.
On the day before he resigned, for his last lunch at the White House, President Nixon had slices of pineapple with cottage cheese and a glass of milk.
Matpakke (food package, or packed lunch), which is the most popular lunch choice for Norwegian students and workers. Individual slices of brown bread, topped with an additional ingredient (often liver pate, brown cheese, or jam), are separated by mellomleggspapir, or between-layer wax paper.
The tradition of putting a slice of cheddar cheese on apple pie dates back to ancient times when combining cheese and fruit was thought to aid in digestion. The combination was brought to the New World by European settlers
The Dagwood sandwich served in Dagwood Sandwich Shoppes includes three slices of deli bread, Genoa salami, ham, pepperoni, turkey, cheddar cheese, provolone, lettuce, tomato, roasted red bell peppers, banana peppers, red onion, deli mustard, and low calorie mayonnaise.
One of the key reasons why James L. Kraft, founder of Kraft Foods, was able to make his company into an empire was to make his cheese easy to slice
Home Alone's Macaulay Culkin sang and played kazoo for a band named the Pizza Underground -- that has a pizza box percussionist, wears pizza slices as masks, and parodies rock music by replacing words with other pizza-themed words such as "slice" and "cheese".
