plastic cheese
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the cheese's resemblance to glossy plastic.
Noun
[edit]plastic cheese (countable and uncountable, plural plastic cheeses)
- Any soft cheese that can be moulded.
- (informal) Any processed cheese of an inferior quality, often sliced and wrapped in plastic film.
Quotations
[edit]- 2005, Maestro Martino, The Art of Cooking:
- A buffalo-milk cheese similar to mozzarella (ie. a plastic cheese) but harder.
- 2001, W. L. Swarts, Within These Walls:
- After five minutes of eating my cold hamburger with plastic cheese, I decided I was sick of being ignored.