Cream cheese and cheese Perhaps you thought that putting Philadelphia cream cheese in tubs, flavoring it many ways and/or whipping it for spreadability exhausted that product's possibilities. (OK, there's that ready-to-eat cheesecake filling, too.)
Wrong. Now there are four varieties of Philadelphia Cracker Spreads, described on the label as "spreadable cheese made with cream cheese." There's Cheddar with Monterey Jack, white Cheddar with roasted red pepper, Parmesan with garlic and herbs, and pepper Jack with jalapeño.
What exactly are they? Well, the first ingredient in the white Cheddar with roasted red pepper version is cream cheese, followed by Cheddar cheese, skim milk, water, cream, red bell peppers, dried red bell peppers, red bell pepper purée and lesser stuff. It's like thick dip.
Of course the Cracker Spreads cost more (the 6.5-ounce tubs cost 46 percent more per ounce at one store than all the various flavors of 8-ounce tubs of Philadelphia without mention of other cheese). But the white Cheddar, which Mr. Tidbit tried, does taste cheesy.
They're GRR...OLDEN! New from Kellogg: Frosted Flakes Gold. The box advises they are "crunchy flakes made with whole grain and baked with HONEY" and, although no actual verb is present, it implies that they do something about "long-lasting energy."
The honey (there's less of it than sugar and high-fructose corn syrup) must be what the "Gold" is about, but in terms of how it differs from regular Frosted Flakes, the bigger difference is the whole grains (corn and wheat) plus rice, corn bran and milled corn, where milled corn is the only cereal ingredient of regular Frosted Flakes. The result is that the 3/4-cup serving of Frosted Flakes Gold has 3 grams of fiber and 2 grams of protein, where regular FF has just 1 gram of each. And, perhaps due to "natural flavor," FF Gold seems to taste like vanilla.
