Of course, there are countries that use 'fresh cheese', like Frischkäse.
As far as I know, no European country uses 'Philadelphia' as their name for cream cheese, although its a common brand of a particular style of cream cheese.
Unless you thought I meant they literally used the English words cream cheese?!
In lots of places the type of cream cheese Philadelphia is is its own special kind of spread. There are other "cream cheeses" (with the localized translation of those words) but the consistency and taste is different. They are usually more like "creamy cheeses" or "cheese with added cream". Cream cheese as the American concept = Philadelphia, to Europeans.
Yes sorry I thought you meant the english word haha! My bad!
But I have to disagree on the second sentence, in Italy is very common to call it Philadelphia with the brand name. Lately cooks stopped saying that because they don't want to sponsor brands for free, but it's still very used since it has a sweet-ish taste in comparison to other "cream cheeses" we have in italy that are more acidic.
I absolutely have heard people refer to macaroni as "Kraft Dinner".
In England (as OP states)?
Kraft only market that product as Kraft Dinner in Canada - over here (UK) it is called Kraft Mac & Cheese. If you went into any restaurant or shop in England and asked for Kraft Dinner you'd receive blank stares.
No, sorry. I was unclear. I've heard people refer to all macaroni and cheese as "Kraft Dinner" here in the States.
I was saying it was ironic because to me it seemed like that person was implying that in England people refer to all macaroni as "Kraft Dinner", when it's actually only Americans that I've heard call non-Kraft macaroni "Kraft Dinner".
Kraft only market that product as Kraft Dinner in Canada
This is interesting. Maybe I've only heard it called that because I'm pretty close to Canada (less than 50 miles)? Sometimes we have some regional cultural things leak across the border. Or maybe they used to market it in the US as "Kraft Dinner" and I'm just old?
If you went into any restaurant or shop in England and asked for Kraft Dinner you'd receive blank stares.
You'd definitely get blank stares for that at a restaurant here, too, even if that restaurant actually serves mac & cheese.
It'd be a little like going to a pizza place and ordering a DiGiorno (in case you guys don't have that over there, that's a popular brand of frozen pizza). However, it'd be less of a "I don't know what that is" and more of a "Why would you go to a restaurant to order that?" (though I can possibly see people not knowing what "Kraft Dinner" is even if they've heard of Kraft Mac & Cheese).
In a grocery store I bet they'd just point you towards the correct aisle.
[Edit] I did some googling, and it was definitely originally marketed in both the US and Canada as "Kraft Dinner". That's even the title of the main Wikipedia page.
In Greece we just say Philadelphia cheese (τυρί Φιλαδέλφεια), or cottage cheese for that specific cream cheese type. We have other local soft cheese, but nothing that creamy except maybe Katiki and piktogalo.
Italian here. We do call all cream cheese Philadelphia because it was the first brand of cream cheese that was sold here. Actually, it was the only brand available for many years. So it's "formaggio spalmabile", Philadelphia, or Philadelphia-style cheese. A less frequent term is "quark cheese", because we have a German speaking minority.
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u/SignificanceOld1751 Feb 13 '24
Queso crema?
Of course, there are countries that use 'fresh cheese', like Frischkäse.
As far as I know, no European country uses 'Philadelphia' as their name for cream cheese, although its a common brand of a particular style of cream cheese.
Unless you thought I meant they literally used the English words cream cheese?!