The surprising reason you can't find cream cheese anywhere

CNN ^ | 18 December 2021 | Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business

[TigersEye]

This must be some kind of CNN fearporn. Not sure why they would do that with Potato Joe in charge but panic, fear and division does seem to be a big part of their game plan.

[mylife]

[Jane Long]

Yep. Trying to start food fights, or something.

Can’t have any peace and calm.

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s the same people who killed bubblegum cigarettes.

[mylife]

Naw, she is fixated on the Big Meat Conglomerates

[Steely Tom]

My local grocery store — a chain based in western New York State — has been out of their store brand of whipped butter for several months, although the national brand is there, for about 40% more. Not a big deal, but interesting. The store brand has never been out of stock before to the best of my recollection. It has certainly occurred to me that perhaps they have not been able to operate their store-brand manufacturing facility at full capacity due to staffing problems, perhaps the result of COVID.

[mylife]

My online Christmas shopping (food stuffs) has been a nightmare, hopefully arrives tomorrow.

[mylife]

My online Christmas shopping (food stuffs) has been a nightmare, hopefully arrives tomorrow.

[TigersEye]

The CPM (corporate propaganda media) must have really been proud of themselves in April 2020 when they panicked the entire nation into stripping the shelves in every grocery store in America.

I’d like to live to see some payback. :)

[BiglyCommentary]

This is bullbleep fear porn. A week ago I was in a Kroger and there must have been 300 boxes of several different brands of creme cheese.

[datura]

Make your own, better, more delicious cream cheese!!

Take good quality pain Greek yogurt, place it in a couple layers of chessecloth over a strainer and bowl, let the whey drain out of it in your refrigerator.

Cream cheese is only yogurt minus the whey…

[Stravinsky]

Give me Philadelphia Cream Cheese or give me death

[mylife]

They don’t keep paper record?

LOL!!!! people live and die by the internet now.

Try to call an actual rep on your order, you talk to a machine, and it cuts you off...

[monkeyshine]

Oh yeah, those Russian Hackers out to get our Cream Cheese.
Hackers are messing up the port computers. Hackers took the distributor caps off half of America’s trucks, too!

Yeah, that’s it.

This is what happens when you get rid of people who know how to do things and replace them with automation. You mean to tell me there isn’t anybody who knows how to make Cream Cheese without a computer? Nobody knows how to rack and stack ships at the port using a paper and pencil?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Milk (or cream) + Lemon juice + Salt = Cream Cheese.

[mylife]

No blintzes for you comrade!

[mylife]

Yet people here on FR embrace the automated suck..

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I keep paper record for seven years and offsite back up for pretty much forever.

The internet is really nice but put not your trust in it when FedGov comes calling. Or even State Gov for that matter.

Smiling at them and asking exactly what record they would like to see and then bringing them the folders one at a time can result in you passing the audit.

Let them into your electronic records and they are going to go fishing, no matter what the warrant says. And you did something wrong. Absolutely guarantee it. There is no way you can follow every single rule because what did not apply to you last year will apply to you this year for... reasons.

Not to mention the regulations that contradict each other.

[rhinohunter]

I was in Aldi’s yesterday

So what is the draw of Aldi’s?

I walked into one just out of curiosity and was not inspired to shop there.

Are their brands of exceptional quality and/or value?

[mylife]

I liked the old ways fine