American cheese

English

Noun

American cheese (countable and uncountable, plural American cheeses)

1. A common processed cheese, yellow or white in colour and mild in flavour, with a medium-firm consistency.

   Synonyms: rat cheese, store cheese

   • 1977 August 13, Paula Bennet, “By Her Own Admission — Soap for Straights”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 6, page 9:

     The end result of such efforts is something akin to processed American cheese: smooth, odor-free and entirely without taste.

   • 2022, “Follow the Fool”, performed by Primus:

     Look at that there fool playing dirty tricks
     He must be made of Teflon 'cause nothing ever sticks
     Dancing 'round the room while farting in the breeze
     Friends huff it down like it's American cheese

Translations

common processed cheese with a medium-firm consistency

• Dutch: Amerikaanse kaas
• Finnish: sulatejuusto (fi)
• German: Sandwichkäse m, Toastkäse m (roughly equivalent)
• Portuguese: queijo americano m
• Romainian: brânză americană
• Swedish: amerikansk ost c
• Ukrainian: Американський сир (Amerykansʹkyj syr)