Last night as I was enjoying a Kraft Velveeta Extra Thick Individually Wrapped Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread sandwich, my attention was inadvertently drawn to the nutrition information on the side of the package. Here’s the rub: there are 10 slices per package, but according to the label, the package contains 12 servings! Is this some sort of corporate typo or have I been making cheese sandwiches wrong all this time? If I can’t even swing elementary lunchmaking my career in politics may just grind to a halt here and now. –Andy S., Washington, D.C.
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You worry about mere ignorance in a country that just elected Dan Quayle? Besides, there’s nothing wrong with your sandwich-making skills. Kraft just arbitrarily decided that its standard cheese “serving” was going to be one ounce, regardless of how much a slice actually weighed. Your package of Velveeta weighs 12 ounces, ergo 12 servings. By comparison, 12-ounce packages of Kraft Singles contain 16 slices, but a “serving” is still considered to be one ounce. Some ascribe dark motives to this procedure, saying Kraft is trying to jigger up the nutrition figures or fool you into thinking you’re getting more servings than you really are. But the truth appears to be that Kraft simply wants to make nutritional information among different styles of cheese more readily comparable.
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