Amazing facts about the origin of popular products. 3. American cheese American cheese in slices is one of the main advantages of the American diet. Put it on the burger and watch it melt! But how truly American is this product? It turns out that what Americans eat as their own product was born in Switzerland. It was there that at the beginning of the century they began to cut the remains of cheese into slices as thin as petals, so that the scraps would not disappear. In 1916, this economy was adopted by the famous food manufacturer James Kraft, the owner of the American food giant Kraft. To make the slices sell better, a legend about a particularly delicious American cheese was invented. #RandomThoughts