Posted on 12/06/2021 12:33:37 AM PST by blueplum
NYC's bagel cafes are making pleas for cream cheese amidst a growing supply chain shortage, with many just days away from running out of the classic spread
From Zabar's to Pick-a-Bagel, bagel makers citywide say they barely have a few days' supply left, threatening to take a NYC delicacy off the menu indefinitely
Absolute Bagels on the Upper West Side currently has enough cream cheese to last them until Thursday
Nick Patta of Absolute Bagels said that his Queens-based cream cheese supplier had run out of cream cheese for the first time that in over a decade
New York bagel sellers go through thousands of pounds of cream cheese every few weeks
One Brooklyn deli owner even drove a truck to New Jersey to pick up 2,000 of the foodstuff
Meanwhile, dairy suppliers said cream cheese orders placed with manufacturers have come up short over the last three weeks
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Yep! Exactly.
You were warned New York. Beware the Technology Trap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcZ_5uCldg
Be interesting to learn the cause.
I could joke about cow carbon footprint, cows on strike, collusion to get prices up ...
I think this is just something that happens from time to time. Story says it happened ten years ago.
Intuition says some unexpected demand surge ate the float (in inventory), and lead time to replacement is a few weeks. Truly a transient shortage, unless something other than milk (like a packaging material) is holding up production rate.
It has a long shelf life.
Not long comapred with velveeta, but "months" anyway.
“But I seriously do not see how this can be. I thought it was a domestic product.”
But how ‘domestic’ is anything, anymore? Even without foreign ingredients in the end product, I have no doubt that there is tons of Chinese content involved with the making of cream cheese, from microprocessors to heavy equipment.
Now, when one considers that China is getting ready to ‘liberate’ Taiwan from the clutches of capitalism, and that China, no doubt, prefers that the ‘liberation’ be done without any violence, perhaps China is sending little signals to us, pin-pricks if you will, to make it clear as to just what they’re capable of, without even having to fire a shot.
Any soft cheese won’t do?
Neuf Chatel? Brie? Yogurt?
Greek Yogurt works pretty good.
“Besides, they would still depend on distribution to get the ingredients. Should they also keep their own cows out back?”
Exactly, and even with the cows, how about their food? And what about the farms to grow the food, probably not practical in Manhattan or Brooklyn, as there is only limited land available.
“Truly a transient shortage, unless something other than milk (like a packaging material) is holding up production rate.”
Most likely transient and will clear, probably with some decent price hikes - but as the one guy noted, first time in 30 years. And lots and lots of these stories, since Brandon took over.
The COVID shutdowns from about two years ago have all sorts of side effects.
Sudden opening of air travel, for example, caught car rental companies, and prices jumped. They’d sold off vehicle inventory. Travel resumed (pretty suddenly), and suddenly not enough rental cars.
https://marketrealist.com/p/why-is-there-cream-cheese-shortage/ <- Oct. 28 2021
This is the WRONG kind of ‘stop the spread’!
Exactly. Making a few ounces of cream cheese in one’s kitchen is quite different from making it in ton lots.
Is it true that bagel delis typically produce their own bagels? I would think that most of them buy from bakeries.
In San Antonio, couldn’t get Philly in the tub. Only packages.
I was trying to find cream cheese for a dish at Thanksgiving and there was none! Total empty shelves in middle Tennessee.
Maybe, just maybe this will finally get the Libs attention to how bad it is! There are over 700,000 fewer office workers in NYC, estimated one million residents moved from NYC. So Hugh loss of bagel demand and they cannot keep up with cream cheese? People wake up!
Could be they can’t get the tubs due to supply chain issues.
The horror!
Well, I had plenty of cream cheese on my bagel this morning. No cream cheese problem here in America
I wonder what Louis Rossman has to say about this. Anyone else watch his channel? He repairs Macs, and gripes about the cost of office space in NYC.
The best bagel delis in the NYC area make their own. Plus they do not contain all the preservatives that mass production bakeries have.
For example, in June my wife and I visited Tarrytown, NY in Westchester County about 30 miles north of NYC. The morning we left we went to a bagel place in town. We purchased a baker’s dozen to take back home to NH. After about 2 days at home these bagels were hard as a rock. I almost needed my wood shop band saw to slice them. Meanwhile, I had some Pepperidge Farm grocery store bought bagels in the cupboard that were still relatively soft, even though they were over a week old.
It made me wonder what preservatives or gluton were in the store bought bagels.
Louis is great, he has gone from repairing Apples to becoming an in the street reporter of the on going issues in NYC. Stories the MSM do not cover, there’s Louis. Well worth the time watching him. Makes you think how and way building owners do not seem to care if they have renters. Money laundering comes to mind.
No, no, no. We have reached Peak Cream Cheese and must switch to a Green alternative now to save the planet! We can no longer consume cream cheese and ignore the effects on our fragile planet! Excess cream cheese consumption could be the tipping point from which the planet will never recover! Time to boycott bagels! After all it’s for the children!
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