American Cheeseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

American cheese (countable and uncountable, plural American cheeses)

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

   Synonym: store cheese

   Hypernyms: cheese, cheese food, processed cheese < food

   Near-synonyms: rat-trap cheese, rat cheese, government cheese

   Many of you other brothers can't deny that American cheese on white bread with yellow mustard is a guilty pleasure that reminds us of our childhood.

   • 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

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see American,‎ cheese: any cheese made in America.

   The opinions on importation of American wheat and steel did not seem as negative as those against importation of American cheese and beer.

   • 2026 February 25, Tenaya Darlington, “American Whey: With artisan cheesemakers in every corner of the country, there’s never been a better time to be a cheese lover in the U.S.”, in Food & Wine‎:

     After all, I’ve spent 15 years following the U.S. cheese scene, first as a lone blogger and now as an author of two cheese books, so I’ve put in my time as a turophile. I don’t let anyone conflate “American cheese” with Kraft Singles—not when there is so much good craft cheese being made stateside. Cheese has come a long way in the U.S. since its production became industrialized in the 1800s, when we began pooling our milk supply to pump out cheap factory-made blocks. It took a brave band of dairy dames in the 1970s and ’80s—fondly known as “the goat ladies” in cheese circles—to kick off a full-blown artisan movement around the country.