Cholov Yisroel cream cheese has apparently listened to government and medical personnel to “stop the spread”, and consumers are reporting a shortage of the product.
Consumers report that most Kosher supermarkets have no cream cheese whatsoever. One person told YWN they went to six stores in Flatbush on Monday morning before they were able to find any.
Besides for normal usage, the cheese product is highly popular this time of year as many recipes call for cream cheese to make many items consumed on Shavuos.
Companies such as J&J say the shortage is due to employees only working half their normal hours the past few weeks due to COVID-19.
Beside for “stopping the spread”, the shortage will most definitely help “flatten the curve”.
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Great No Cream cheese , cheese cake
Rebetzins Cheese cake
2 bags Ostreicher lemon cookies (20 oz.)
1 stick butter
Crush cookies. Melt butter and mix with cookie crumbs on low flame. Press 1/2 of the crumbs on bottom of 9×13 pan and reserve the other half for top.
2 lb. farmer cheese
8 oz. sour cream
6 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 Tbsp. vanilla sugar
juice of 1/2 lemon
8 flat soup spoons flour
Mix all ingredience in bowl with fork. Pour over crumbs. Top with reserved crumbs.
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Good ones! This CHEESE article made me smile 🙂
The “Battle of the Bulge” resurfaced!
If the shortage is due to employees only working half their normal hours, then semi-skimmed milk products should be available 🙂
We all need to realize, that however frustrating it was to have Corona commence so close to פסח, not withstanding:- It is חסדי-השם that by then all פסח products had already been manufactured and were pretty much ready, whereas if this Corona had commenced earlier in the winter, many פסח foods including most מצה baking would have been totally screwed up.
Prize goes for best written closing line:
Beside for “stopping the spread”, the shortage will most definitely help “flatten the curve”.
Good one!
i have half a container of cream cheese in my fridge anyone can have it if they like no, i don’t deliver
nebech klal yisroel will have to eat cheese cake from farmers cheese, oy vey gevald
now is the time of year when our parents used to give tikin for their families perished in holocaust and 70 years later we have a problem with cream cheese?
Kol hakood to the ehrliche yid who had the time and resources to shlep to SIX stores in Flatbush to find a container of cream cheese. A true tzadik with more time on his/her hands than any one yid deserves. Perhaps the quote was garbled from an interview the reporter had done for Purim about the shortage of prunes for Hamantashen.
There are also cheesecake recipes with greek yogurt.
Maybe Hashem wants us to focus more on the Torah and less on the cheesecake.