Talk:Cream cheese

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Contents 1 cream cheese In a salad? blasphemy! 2 Is cream cheese vegetarian 3 Is cream cheese Jewish? 4 Flavors 5 Debate about origns of the Brand Philadelphia Cream Cheese 6 NPOV

[edit] cream cheese In a salad? blasphemy!

Please provide some evidence. I don't believe this is common or customary. Should be taken off the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.236.151.5 (talk) 23:12, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Is cream cheese vegetarian

Is it vegetarian, or do they use rennin from calves and pigs to curdle the milk? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.186.153.25 (talk • contribs) 15:09, 1 December 2006

Well it is a dairy product so it depends on what you mean by Vegetarianism. It isn't suitable for someone who follows Veganism or Ovo vegetarianism simply because it's a dairy product. As to the use of Rennet, I'm pretty sure it's not used because cream cheese is an acid-set cheese. This might make a good clarification in the main article if a source can be found. --Elipongo 21:05, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is cream cheese Jewish?

I'm Jewish and I always just sort of assumed that cream cheese was Jewish because, well, bagels are Jewish and that vast majority of cream cheese is consumed on bagels (right?). I'm hesitant to edit the article with this information, though, because "anecdotal evidence" does not fit the standard of quality for Wikipedia. Also, is it okay to edit the article to reflect that cream cheese is delicious, or is that not NPOV? --Cyde 00:47, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I have it on good word ( a baker at my local store) Cream Cheese is not Jewish, although it may be that in an attempt to make money, cream cheese was introduced on bagels for one reason or another... I suppose --ViceroyInterus

The article doesn't give a name or an ethnicity for the farmer who invented Cream Cheese, perhaps he was Jewish? I always figured that cream cheese was popular with Jews because, being a soft cheese, it doesn't need rennet, so it's much easier to make kosher. Elipongo 06:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

How long does cream cheese typically last? Seems like that'd be relevant information... --129.97.221.68 05:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

If it wasn't a "jewish food" before, it is now. Ethnic foods generally get -adopted- into an ethnicity, not created into them. I'm sure bagels existed before jews began to eat them en masse.

[edit] Flavors

I'm surprised the flavors listed in the article are all savory. I can't imagine eating a cream cheese that wasn't sweet and flavored with something sweet-compatible... Fruit, etc.

My Office orders Bagels and Cream Cheese every Mon. & Fri. and one of the craziest flavors so far is Parmasean & Artichoke Cream Cheese. EEWW ----

[edit] Debate about origns of the Brand Philadelphia Cream Cheese

"ABOUT PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE IN NEW YORK" Excerpt from www.foodtimeline.org

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Except taken from www.foodtimeline.org Nattysmiff 07:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Here's the link to the text I removed http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcakes.html#newyork. Feel free to cite the material from the site into the article, but please paraphrase the information, don't insert it verbatim. —Elipongo (Talk|contribs) 10:11, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

"It is also delicious on breakfast foods such as bagels, toast, and english muffins." This statement is highly suspect; as a matter of indisputable fact I do not consider cream cheese in the least delicious on any of the aforementioned pastries. I demand an edit to a NPOV and that someone corrects the capitalization of the word "English". - SovietCanuck (talk)