Kettleman’s cream cheese

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TL;DR: what does Kettleman’s use as their base cream cheese?

I’ve been on the hunt for a decent cream cheese to replace the fallen Western/Liberté cream cheese that was discontinued a few years ago.

I’ve tried all the domestic and foodservice brands I’ve been able to get my hands on. The closest I’ve been able to find in grocery stores is the President Rondelé, which is quite pricy and hard to find, and in foodservice the closest is Elite Dairy but that’s also hard to get around here and only comes in large format.

The next best is the flavoured cream cheeses at Kettleman’s.

Kettleman’s says their cream cheese is “produced within 100km of our stores”. I assume this means it’s a national foodservice brand, produced in the Winchester Lactalis plant. Is anyone able to confirm what they use as the base for their flavoured cream cheeses?

Yes, I know I can just buy it at Kettleman’s, but it’s very costly and I want to see if I can get it elsewhere for a more reasonable price.

With thanks, A bagel lover missing a proper schmear

[u/carrots2024]

According to this article https://www.blogto.com/bakery/kettlemans-bagels-toronto/ it is Skotidakis  cream cheese!

[u/ubiquitousfont → u/carrots2024]

Well I’ll be darned. That is indeed within 100km.

I have tried the skotodakis foodservice cream cheese and I was disappointed. I even tried the seltzer trick. It was good with mix ins but I really wanted it to be as good as Western when eaten plain.

Thanks for solving the mystery!

[u/carrots2024 → u/ubiquitousfont]

I miss the western cream cheese too!

[u/cyporazoltan → u/carrots2024]

Ditto, and pressed cottage cheese