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Easy Cheese logo.

Overview

Easy Cheese is the trademark for a processed cheese spread product distributed by Mondelēz International. It is also referred to as "spray cheese", "cheese fizz", or simply "cheese in a can", and is similar to "squeeze cheese" (a semi-solid cheesefood from the 1970s packaged in a squeezable plastic tube). Easy Cheese is packaged in a metal can filled with air covered with a plastic cap that reveals a straight, flexible nozzle where the cheese is extruded.

Easy cheese cans

Three flavors of Easy Cheese, all in cans.

The product was first manufactured by Nabisco and sold under the name "Snack Mate" from 1965 until 1984. Advertisements often displayed the orange product adorned in flowy peaks atop several different types of appetizers. As a 1966 advertisement says, it was "instant cheese for instant parties.”

Flavours

Easy Cheese is currently available in these flavours.

Discontinued flavours

Main page: Discontinued flavours of Easy Cheese

Discontinued varieties include Pimiento, French Onion, Cheddar Blue Cheese, Shrimp Cocktail, Roasted Garlic Cheddar, Nacho, Cream Cheese, and Pizza.

Can Design

The can is not actually an aerosol spray. The cheese does not usually combine with a propellant (such as nitrogen) to turn into a fine mist upon being sprayed. Rather, the can contains a piston and a barrier plastic cap which squeezes the cheese through the nozzle in a solid column when the nozzle is pressed and the propellant expands in volume. The propellant does not mix with the cheese. Normal aerosol cans are charged with all of their contents through the single opening at the top, but spray cheese cans are separately charged with the product through the top and propellant through the bottom. This explains why the can has a small rubber plug on its base. The can design also ensures that the cheese can be dispensed with the can upright or inverted.

See also

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