Uo oh. The reduced workforce caused by the coronavirus has caused a shortage of cream cheese, a key staple of Shavuos which arrives next week, BoroPark24 reports.
A spokesman for the J&J dairy company told BP24 that workers who used to come in six days a week have averaged in recent days just half that amount, resulting in reduced production of cream cheese, though J&J expects supplies to be replenished “within the next few days.”
{Matzav.com}
IS THIS A WARNING THAT PRICES R GOING UP ???? !!!!
Crisis??!!! It’s cream cheese!!!!!
Crisis? You’ve got to be kidding!
Since when is J&J the only manufacturer of Cream cheese??!
Why would you label something so insignificant as a crisis?
This furthers my theory that media drives the shortages by hyping up minor lack of resources as a major “CRISIS” which causes a run on the stores and people start hoarding.
So stop buying “clicks” at the expense of people who are going to go shopping for cream cheese on Erev Shavous and won’t find any because the editor at Matzav.com decided it would be fun to cause a run on the markets.
The reason I am writing this despite the fact that in the actual article it clearly says that it is NOT a crisis, and stores will be resupplied shortly, is because people get a lot of information from the headlines and often don’t actually read the articles.
(think of all those times that we decry different news sources or politicians for a headline or a sound bite that sounds antisemitic or tone-deaf, but in the full article, or context says otherwise. eg. NY Post Menachem Stark “who didn’t want him dead” we all rightfully were horrified at that headline, because people read headlines.) I am not saying that this is as egregious as that, but as a news source for the frum community, you must walk a fine line and be extremely conscious of the ripple effect of your work
No cream cheese is a CRISIS?
Bist di meshige?
chuchem: Yes, as it may be MONAYEH SIMCHAS YOM TOV!
One can make cream cheese yourself. Put sour cream in a cloth and let hang for 24 hours, liquid will drip out. Add salt it will taste like regular us whipped cream cheese.
There is plenty here in Lakewood in all the stores ,No need to panic!!
Tinonkos shel beis raban are losing out daily on limud hatorah.
BMG is closed.
We don’t know when we’ll ber able to daven in a shul.
Cream cheese???????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! No!!! Just not a cream cheese!!! Rabbonim should postpone the Shvuess until everyone be equipped with proper amount of essential cheese cakes!
Here is one for the misyavnim crowd: If shuls are to be shut down, then so should cream cheese factories. Unless a cream cheese is more “essential” than a shul, in their little empty minds.
Don’t bring “sakonas nefoshos” argument, since the virus can be transmitted in a cream cheese factory just as well; so if you are so strict on “sakonas nefoshos” that you make “gezeiros” even for “social distancing” minyanim, then kol shekein you should prohibit factories where workers are not “socially distant”. You don’t say anything about cream cheese factories, therefore you are a phony. Checkmate.
at least someone listened when the said “stop the spread!”
IS J&J the only CY cream cheese? There other CY brands?
Ah groiser oomglick
People are dying, shuls/bateimidrashim/chadarim/yeshivos are closed. Get a flipping grip.
best cheese for cake is farmer cheese!
The point was it’s needed to make Shavuos cheesecakes. Minhag Yisrael and people would feel terrible missing this taste of Shavuos, especially with all the downers we are going through. Obviously, not comparing to the true tragedies. Just another straw on the camel’s back.
Fake news.
Interesting that the same company has no shortage with their milk, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc… It’s only their cream cheese right before Shavuos. I have a bridge to sell you.
Apparently price gouging is going full steam, here in Brooklyn. Even Shoprite jumped on the bandwagon. They quietly raised their prices on almost everything they sell or have in stock.
There is an abundant supply of cream cheese at Krogers, Stop & Shtup, Safeway, Shoprite, etc. all with good hashgochos but not cholov Yisroel. I eat them. They’re great and cost half as much as JJ or Ahava or Mehadrin.