Posted on 12/04/2021 9:38:50 AM PST by mylife
The latest symptom of a broken supply chain could take away your breakfast. The looming possibility of a cream cheese shortage is affecting Massachusetts, especially at restaurants. Perry Makarios, the owner of SPoT! Bagel in Norwood, said the restaurant usually goes through 1,500 pounds of the stuff in an average week. He said his suppliers recently began giving him unfilled orders.
"Every week we were ordering our cream cheese block, and it was short 200 pounds, short 300 pounds, short 500 pounds, so finally one week I just said, 'we don't have any,'" Makarios said.
Consumption of cream cheese across the United States was already rising in the last several years. Makarios said when he scrambled to find another distributor for cream cheese, they were charging 40% more for the same product.
He said his customers have been okay switching over to breakfast sandwiches, and he's grateful for the business, but it's hard to run the store this way. Despite the ubiquity of cream cheese in his shop, Makarios said bagel stores aren't even the worst hit.
"The majority of the cream cheese in the United States is not used on bagels, it's used for crab rangoons. So the Chinese food restaurants are going crazy," he said. Makarios is starting to hoard his supplies until further notice.
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One more thing to tack on the head of Joe Biden!!
:)
The ultra orthodox Chabad have it being ok
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/815625/jewish/Is-Lox-and-Cream-Cheese-Kosher.htm
In the future the new word for clusterf&^% will be “Biden”.
“What a Biden!”
This story gives me more questions than answers. Why only cream cheese? Are other dairy products affected? Does the shortage involve cream cheese that’s produced domestically or imported? Because my impression of the supply chain problem is that the bottleneck is primarily with imported goods.
This is far from the most pressing issue that we face today, but I think we’re only getting half the story here. As usual.
Use Hummus!! It is favorite bagel spread at Orthodox coffee hours, especially during Fast seasons like the one now in progress!!!! So others can use hummus when they can’t get cream cheese!!
Why would his suppliers give him unfilled orders?
Did he receive empty containers?
“Hi Boys and Girls, I’m Jimmy Carl Black, and I’m the Indian of the group.”
Lox is fish. Dairy is beef. No prohibition there, that I know of.
According to some
No doubt if Frank were still alive he would have been leading the charge against “Cancel Culture” a long time ago.
damnable chickpeas!!
wild or farm raised? smoked or brined?
I read this as I am eating a Noah’s sesame bagel with store brand California cream topped with sliced tomatoes sprinkled with lemon pepper.
1500 lbs cream cheese in a week?
Geez, that’s incredible.
Good nosh....
dude was a cheese pusher...
Every week we were ordering our cream cheese block, and it was short 200 pounds, short 300 pounds, short 500 pounds...
So, someone is cutting the cheese.
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