As a child growing up I always preferred Temp Tee Whipped Cream Cheese over Philadelphia Brand Whipped Cream Cheese……(Was I a foodie as a child?)…… Latter when I left home as a young adult I didn’t eat much cream cheese……but these days I do eat cream more. In Arizona Temp Tee brand cream cheese isn’t sold at any major grocery store. Every once in a while East Coast Foods show up at the 99 cent store. Breakstone’s and Hellman’s products show up every now and then along with Temp Tee Brand Cream Cheese. Today I happened to pick up some Temp Tee Brand Cream Cheese. I happened to have a tub of Philadelphia Whipped Cream Cheese at home so I wanted to see the taste difference for myself and how accurate my childhood memory of Temp Tee was.
I turn both tubs around and look at the ingredients. To my surprise both cream cheeses are owned by Kraft?????
Philadelphia Brand has more ingredients. Pasteurized milk and cream, Skim milk, Whey protein concentrate, Whey, Modified Food Starch, Salt Carob bean gum, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Lactic acid, Natamycin ( a natural mold inhibitor), Vitamin A Palmitate, Cheese Culture.
Temp Tee has less ingredients but more fat. Pasteurized Milk & Cream, Salt, Carob Bean Gum, Cheese Culture.
I go to smell them.
I think they smell similar but slightly different.
I taste Temp Tee first.
It’s very creamy and also buttery and bright. It is very smooth in my mouth. It has a very rich mouth feel. Temp Tee taste like heavy cream and whipped sweet butter with a little tang. It taste natural and very good.
Now the Philadelphia Brand Whipped Cream Cheese.
Do I have an off batch?….. It’s almost like those Jello deserts that people used to make like Jello and Whipped Cream mixed together. This cream cheese is very flat tasting after the Temp Tee and has some flavors I can’t identify. It lacks that natural cream and butter kind of taste with sour instead of tang. After the Temp Tee it doesn’t taste or feel natural. It’s very disappointing after the Temp Tee. Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese seems slightly gross to me after the Temp Tee. I do note that Philadelphia Brand Cream Cheese usually does taste good to me but it’s only after tasting Temp Tee that I really notice the difference.
I hate to admit this but This Philly Girl (I was from the Philadelphia Area) Proclaims that New York Temp Tee Brand Cream Cheese is Forking Better than Philadelphia Cream Cheese by a long shot.
I do note your opinion may differ.
Those were my Forking Thoughts on Philadelphia and Temp Tee Brand Cream Cheeses – They do indeed Taste Different!
The Forking Truth
Temp Tee is the superior cream cheese. And excellent on matzo!
I was about to head to the store to get Temp Tee and out of curiosity googled it just to see how they actually spell it, with a hyphen, one or two words…and came across your article. When I was a kid I just thought Temp Tee was cream cheese, and only at motel breakfasts did they serve the waxy Philadelphia.
Passover starts tonight and my favorite way to eat matzah is with cream cheese : ) Even when we brought home bagels as a kid we never bought cream cheese from the bagel shop, we used Temp Tee at home : )
Temp Tee cream cheese is a good memory. Have a Happy Passover Neil.