> Usually "true-HEPA" is just a marketing term used when selling non-HEPA filters.
I don't understand how companies are allowed to add an intensifying or strengthening adjectives to a noun and ends up with a weaken definition of the noun. For example, Full Self Driving is less than Self Driving and now true-HEPA is less than HEPA. Could I advertise that a product as Perfect-HIPPA compliant then?
Another personally-painful example is "podcasting", which Spotify appropriated while creating a closed equivalent of our open web medium. Now everyone's forced to say "standards-based podcasting" or "open podcasting" to use its original meaning.
No, Apple did not create it, they supported the standard for an RSS feed of audio files that was created by others. It's true that the name is an homage to the iPod, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast#Etymology
I mean I know what it is. affected apple marketing fluff for "an audio file that is not music.", basically, "we created a category for talk shows on the ipod. and gave it a stupid appleesque name". but i find it weird that people don't just call them talk shows.
podcast is audio files and an RSS/atom feed somewhere. That's all that's required. podcasting is what a podcaster who publishes podcasts does.
the "spec" was made so that itunes - or whatever else - could fetch new content by itself and load it onto your portable music device the next time you synced it with your computer.
Now it's a push notification on an app on your phone that a new file is available to listen to.
> weird that people don't just call them talk shows
Talk show to me feels like it describes the content and not the format. And the dictionaries I have checked agree: “a radio or television programme on which famous guests are asked questions about themselves, or members of the public discuss a particular subject” (cambridge dictionary)
Some podcasts are documentaries content wise, some podcasts are newsreels, some are actual play ttrpg, some are radio drama. And yeah, many are indeed talk shows, but that doesn’t mean it is one and the same.
It kind of like how many TV shows are sitcoms, but not all TV shows are sitcom.
I would say important part of podcasts is delivery process. Which at this point due to wide spread of on demand streaming services has somewhat lost many of it's unique features.
Some years ago if someone said a talk show I would think TV or radio which might be prerecorded but was still broadcasted at specific time.
Not all podcasts are talk shows. Some podcasts have more of news update format, they are still called podcasts due to technical format, but you wouldn't call them talk shows. There are also more educational podcasts, with single person informing people about some topic that isn't news.
When podcasts started a distinguishing feature was that you would download them (at time of your chose) and later play them at time of your choice. Another factor is since it isn't radio or TV, medium was a lot more accessible to many creators. This allows creation of much wider variety of shows for niche interests compared to what you would get on TV or radio.
Now that a lot of media is consumed on demand through various streaming services like Youtube, Netflix, Spotify but TV and Radio usage has significantly decreased that's not unique anymore. Even traditional media companies might be publishing parts of their shows either on their own or existing platforms after the initial broadcast, thus allowing on demand access to their content.
One more change that has reduced podcast standout features is overall internet speed access. Internet largely has become fast enough that directly streaming audio is easy, there is little need to predownload it. Not only it has become fast, through the mobile networks it's accessible on the go. For a long while even if internet speed was fast enough for audio streaming, mobile internet was quite expensive thus encouraging to download stuff at home for later listening on the go.
On the topic ease of creation. While there might some podcasts which are now quite popular and the budget that exceeds smaller talk shows on TV and many on radio, the lower bound for podcasts is still much lower. TV and radio has limited broadcast time available, so there will always be some lower bound of budget (depending on size of TV channel) which will likely be above most podcasts (in terms of amount published, not necessary amount of listeners).
Limited broadcast time has another interesting implication - limits on length. You will unlikely see talk show on TV that's much longer than an 1.5 hours, and anything shorter than 15min will likely be part of bigger show. Podcasts can be as short as 5 minutes (usually for news update style podcasts) and up to 2.5h or longer. Even a single podcast can significantly vary in length between episodes depending on guest, you can't do that on TV or radio where you have specific time slot.
Names aren't always about content but often also various technical details and loosely defined common properties. Why do we need separate words for CD, vinyl record or Radio, for saying "I was listening a CD", when we could just say listening a song regardless of how it happens. Having more words allows expressing more information. An when you say that you listened a vinyl record that implies a lot more than listening a song.
- Kraft and maybe a couple other brands of “not cheese” slices and blocks
- A larger selection of real cheese blocks and pre-sliced, pre-shredded options (I know dust parm and some shredded have filler that we’d probably also not count as real cheese)
- A whole deli counter on the other side of the store of all “real” cheese options.
Now, maybe consumption is 80% those Kraft slices, idk the stats, but just in terms of shelf space, it’s like 80-90% real cheeses.
I think the person you're replying to put the quotes in the wrong place. They weren't talking about all cheese in America, they were talking about a specific product called "American Cheese", which... well, it technically has cheese in it, but some of its components are not-cheese, and it's made in a mass-produced way that turns off many cheese aficionados.
The other reply was correct. I'm not talking about all cheese in America, I'm talking specifically about the fact that Kraft slices are ostensibly "American cheese", but in reality are not legally "cheese".
Everyone trying to add some sort of cheese snobbery but the actual answer is that it legally literally isn't cheese. That's the only reason it is labeled "processed cheese product". It's the same kind of nonsense around "Frozen dairy dessert" instead of something being ice cream.
Guess what, I KNOW this tub of mostly cookie dough isn't made out of just cream and sugar and cold. I prefer it that way in fact!
Be assured, Americans buy A LOT of cheese and Wisconsin will have strong words to say if you act like Americans don't "know" cheese
Give it another decade or so and people will have the same false snobbery around whether their canned alcoholic beverage of choice is a "real seltzer" or a "spiked soda" or....
In a typical American grocery store, many of the individually wrapped orange slices in the "cheese" section do not legally meet the requirements to be considered cheese. They still have their uses though (it's great for grilled cheese sandwiches, and contains emulsifiers that makes it great in soups or mac & cheese). There's also "American cheese" which is cheese, usually along the lines of a very mild cheddar, it's also a totally fine product.
To me, the label "pasteurized process American cheese" still says that it's cheese. Just the "pasteurized process American" kind. So it's still legally cheese.
Some of it is certainly gatekeeping, but part of it is that it contains components that are definitely not cheese, and it's mass-produced, which turns a lot of people off.
It's fine as a thing to eat, if it's a flavor and texture you like. Personally I avoid it, but it's passably ok as a part of a sandwich where there are other flavors around it. If I just want to eat some cheese (with or without some delivery mechanism like a cracker), American Cheese is the farthest thing from my mind.
There's a bit more to it. What most identify as American "Cheese" is the Kraft Single or its equivalent competitors, a product without enough cheese in it (< 51%) to even legally label as cheese, and per the FDA at least is not legally "American Cheese". It must be labeled as a cheese "food" or "product". But the branding emphasizes American, Singles, and Calcium, the rest is the fine print.
There are higher quality actual American Cheeses, that can actually call themselves cheese unqualified, brands such as Kretshcmar, Boar's Head, etc. Kraft does make a somewhat lower end version under the Deli Deluxe label. They are produced from a combination of Cheddar and Colby.
But its not just gatekeeping there is a wide latitude in the quality and constitution of the various products marketed as "American" cheese ..., some of them don't contain any milk! This type of market segmentation isn't as common with better quality cheese varieties for a number of reasons. At the extreme the "American" label gets put on dollar store imitation "cheese" singles. Whereas I don't know of much imitation provolone sold anywhere.
And mass-produced has little to do with it. Most deli cheeses are mass produced but people tend to have strong preferences for alternatives to American irrespective.
cheese and cheese food?
American cheese should just be american cheddar that's been made pliable for easy slicing. I forget the extra step or two, offhand.
Growing up i always heard "cheese food" isn't cheese, but if it's made from curds and whey...
I don't understand how companies are allowed to add an intensifying or strengthening adjectives to a noun and ends up with a weaken definition of the noun. For example, Full Self Driving is less than Self Driving and now true-HEPA is less than HEPA. Could I advertise that a product as Perfect-HIPPA compliant then?