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The surprising reason you can't find cream cheese anywhere
CNN ^ | 18 December 2021 | Ramishah Maruf, CNN Business

Posted on 12/18/2021 8:26:27 PM PST by blueplum

New York (CNN Business)This year hackers have unleashed cyberattacks against pipelines, ferry boats, meat packers, even police departments. And now they've come for the cream cheese.

In October, a cyberattack against the largest US cheese manufacturer contributed to a nationwide cream cheese shortage shortly before the holidays, Bloomberg News reported, endangering holiday treats for millions.

Bloomberg reported the attack targeted plants and distribution centers. As a result, Wisconsin-based Schreiber Foods was unable to fully operate for several days — just as it was heading into its peak busy period before the Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas holidays.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: creamcheese; cyberattacks; cyberwarfare; manufacuredcrisis; shortages
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To: Jane Long

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.


21 posted on 12/18/2021 8:55:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: blueplum

22 posted on 12/18/2021 8:57:26 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: TigersEye

Yep. Trying to start food fights, or something.

Can’t have any peace and calm.


23 posted on 12/18/2021 8:58:26 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: blueplum

It’s the same people who killed bubblegum cigarettes.


24 posted on 12/18/2021 8:58:29 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: gundog

Naw, she is fixated on the Big Meat Conglomerates


25 posted on 12/18/2021 8:58:40 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: blueplum
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.
26 posted on 12/18/2021 9:01:23 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: hecticskeptic

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


27 posted on 12/18/2021 9:03:31 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: hecticskeptic

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


28 posted on 12/18/2021 9:03:40 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: Jane Long

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. :)


29 posted on 12/18/2021 9:03:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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To: TomGuy

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.


30 posted on 12/18/2021 9:04:29 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: blueplum

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…


31 posted on 12/18/2021 9:05:12 PM PST by datura (Trying to find each possible way to reduce government influence on my daily life.)
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To: blueplum

Give me Philadelphia Cream Cheese or give me death


32 posted on 12/18/2021 9:05:38 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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...


33 posted on 12/18/2021 9:07:46 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: blueplum

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?


34 posted on 12/18/2021 9:07:58 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Stravinsky
Milk (or cream) + Lemon juice + Salt = Cream Cheese.
35 posted on 12/18/2021 9:10:12 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: monkeyshine

No blintzes for you comrade!


36 posted on 12/18/2021 9:16:16 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: monkeyshine

Yet people here on FR embrace the automated suck..


37 posted on 12/18/2021 9:18:12 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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To: mylife
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.

38 posted on 12/18/2021 9:18:36 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: TomGuy
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?

39 posted on 12/18/2021 9:20:01 PM PST by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I liked the old ways fine


40 posted on 12/18/2021 9:20:07 PM PST by mylife (Christmas is cancelled, all the reindeer have Covid and a red nose, Donner and Prancer and Vaxxen)
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