Kraft will pay you to not make cheesecake this holiday season
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In light of the national cream cheese shortage, Kraft is offering customers $20 to bring another dessert to holiday gatherings instead of cheesecake.
Supply chain issues have disrupted United States markets for months, leading to shortages of medical supplies, liquor, athleisure, toys, gasoline and other items, and now cream cheese. In New York, bagel shops are struggling to meet the demand for the condiment, The New York Times reported, as suppliers' inventories run dry.
In response, Kraft, which manufactures Philadelphia Cream Cheese, is offering 18,000 people a $20 reimbursement for buying desserts that don't involve cream cheese this holiday season.
"A delicious cheesecake is a holiday tradition that many families look forward to," the company wrote on a site promoting the deal. "So, if cheesecake is on less holiday tables this year, we want to make sure that you still get that holiday feeling, even if through other desserts."
Would-be cream cheese buyers can enter to claim one of 10,000 spots on the promotion website beginning Friday at 12 p.m. EST. An additional 8,000 slots will open Saturday at 12 p.m. EST.
Those who land a spot will receive a unique link from Kraft. Upon confirmation of the reservation, customers can then buy "any dessert," as long as they get a receipt dated between Friday and Dec. 24.
Starting Dec. 28, customers can use their unique link to submit their receipt for a "chance to receive a $20 digital reward," according to the promotion website.
The supply shortage may not be going away any time soon.
A spokesperson for Kraft told The New York Times that the company continues to "see elevated and sustained demand" for a number of its products.
"As more people continue to eat breakfast at home and use cream cheese as an ingredient in easy desserts, we expect to see this trend continue," the spokesperson said.
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What can I get for cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting? Or carrot cake.............
Royal icing or caramel will work on cinnamon rolls...
Carrot cake is not the same without cream cheese.
A fantastic concept. Do you think I can get YouTube to pay me because I can't open its website here?
time to ration it down to a 1/2" layer on both sides of the bagel I guess...
No wonder we get along so well.
I will resist the temptation of a public reply with the next obvious joke here and let "the readers" imagination run with it.
The next knock on your door will be me with a basket full of cream cheese.
just walk in, I'll be in the kitchen wearing an altered bagel.
Thank goodness it's a cream cheese shortage and not toilet paper.
Considering how creamed cheese goes through me, by not eating it, I won't have the TP problem
On a somewhat related note, remember when you posted this:
It still makes me laugh.
I do remember and it still makes me ROTFL.
Evening...make a typical Aussie Christmas dessert...a pavlova..
Meringue, cream, strawberries or passionfruit on top..the $20 is a given..
Forget the cheesecake...
That is how Oklahomans feel about their pecan pie.
Evening JBB...heard of it but never tasted it.. will have a squizz on Google...
Pecan Pie Porn...
I assume it tastes nice as it does seem very popular over there...
Too damn sweet and rich for me. Just give me the pecans and I am good.
It's really easy to make, too. Do you pecans in Australia? You could use another type of tree nut that's popular in Australia
My ancient mom still races the squirrels to get to the pecans from her trees. She usually gets about a hundred pounds shelled on good years, but a late freeze can wiped out a crop.
I almost lapsed into a diabetic coma just looking at that.
Morning trout...yes I have seen pecans here in Woolworths... macadamia nuts I don't think are any good for cooking, just straight eating .
I've seen macadamia nuts in cookies, but I don't think they would hold up in a pie
Luckily i had just bought a mega pack prior to this latest supply snafu. Think there is six or eight boxes in there.
Taking bids for anyone who wants to make cheese cake.
Why is there a shortage of cream cheese? Don't we have dairy cows in the US? Don't we have creameries in the US? Are you telling me my Philly cream cheese comes from overseas??????
Unacceptable!
Yeah, I don't get this. I live in the second most dairy state, so I've seen milk cows, so why no cream cheese?
My dad owned a dairy farm for awhile in PA. Lots and lots of dairy farms (COWS!) in PA....and a short distance to Philadelphia
I'll bet you didn't see any Cream Cheese cows, did you?
The pandemic has heavily affected the dairy industries in both China and the United States through similar mechanisms, such as decreased farmgate milk prices, disruption and difficulties of moving milk within the supply chains, worker shortages, increased production costs, and lack of operating capital.
Well this should help everyone understand a little bit better
That doesn't explain why Kraft is having a problem filling orders for Philly cream cheese. This company is a rival to Kraft.
Therein, more than likely, lies the problem. Due to the fact that the rival can't catch up, Kraft has probably had a run on theirs because they could deliver even it if was short lived. I have a feeling that the restaurant/deli business may be a lot bigger than what you and I use.
Up here that would also mean a shortage of smoked salmon and capers. As to bagels, what we produce in Montreal are the real thing.
Ahhh....now it all makes sense. Thanks for explaining that
I thought Kraft owned Philly.
But that's just my pea-brain at work .......
They do
I'll have to check my grocery stores. I bought some cream cheese for bagels, but that was a few weeks ago. We have a dairy farm right in our town (lovely smell on hot summer days), so we shouldn't have shortages of anything dairy.
LOL...I remember well
I don't eat cream cheese, or sour cream or ranch...
I had two comments for this: Why? or WTF?
WhyWTF?
I agree with the ranch. Yuck.
my kids put that stuff on everything. plain ranch, blech... peppercorn ranch, acceptable...
I use to see a woman that dipped her french fries in ranch.
Me, too. Hate that stuff
seeing it put on pizza is what gets me... ....>hurl<...
Better than mayo like the Brits
On pizza? I have seen people use that Catalina but never ranch.
Would ruin a perfectly good pizza.
I have a friend who does that and it’s not even Hellmann’s, yuk!
Not a big mayo fan either.
When I was a kid, for a snack my father use to put mayo on saltine crackers...
Kinda ruined it for me.
In Belgium you can get fries with garlic mayonnaise or other options. The garlic mayonnaise was really good with the fries.
I tried it once with some Royal Marines we were training with. Hated it and it almost turned into fight because i refused to do it after that.
Those limeys .... crazy bastards.
The big fight in our family was over Mayo or Miracle Whip. My poor mother had to have both because of it.
I didn't care either way.
Me, neither. I hate the stuff and get really offended when it ends up on my sammich. I don't even like it for making salads like egg, potato, and tuna
I love cream cheese, sour cream and ranch ..... clearly the main reason for our vast partisan divide.
Oh and by the way, American cheese still makes the best grilled cheese sandwich for kids.
By far, just ask them.
Morning evil....errr what is ranch??
We have mayo, sour cream etc but never heard of that....
It's a horrible dip/dressing that most people put on everything. It's supposed to be made with butttermilk but it gets made with mayonnaise which makes it 10 times as bad. I tell servers that if I see ranch on my plate I will scream bloody murder.
I really, really, really hate the foul stuff
I would rather eat a salad naked (the salad, not myself) than eat it with ranch dressing. It's disgusting.
Oh I'll eat a salad either way. um.. don't laugh it's really cold in here!
Party pooper.
I like salad without dressing
Ranch dressing is horrific.
I guess it's time to perfect Jello Pie ... oh damn it already has been:
I suspect that this shortage of Cream Cheese is a plot by the ''Deep State''.
The dirty bastards. /s
I don't think we have ever had a cheesecake at Christmas.
Ditto.
I know we never did. My mother hated cheese. But we got apple, pumpkin, cherry, and lemon meringue pie. Coconut cream, too
Since I am severely lactose intolerant (yes, one of those intolerant liberals), my wife sometimes makes a cheese cake using soy cream cheese. I can guarantee that it is absolutely delicious. For the crust she uses graham crackers, but a couple of times she crumbled up lemon wafer cookies as the crust and the lemony flavor suffused the entire cheesecake. It was heavenly!
That sounds good. I used to have a recipe for a cheesecake that called for an oatmeal crust. It was delicious but I lost the recipe
You can find all kinds of recipes using Google.
I could....LOL!
I have a cousin that is lactose intolerant. when we were kids we spent the summers on the ranch together. instead of milk on his cereal, he'd put OJ or grape juice on it. after my initial reaction, I actually liked cereal better that way.
You'd have to pay and I would still refuse to use a Kraft product in my dessert.