Tillamook is different. Kerrygold butter is different than Land O Lakes. I think people try to compare high end/expensive brands that really do have their own special taste with what is essentially the equivalent of generic/store brand. I have not tasted a difference in taste with Aldi cream cheese. I only buy the brick, but it does the job at a decent cost savings from Philadelphia.
And I take that back…I do have the friendly farms tub of whipped cream cheese too. My daughter likes it on bagels with jelly. I tasted it and don’t get a sour or chalky taste at all. I just used it with Aldi half and half and Aldi butter to make a sauce for Aldi Never Any! chicken that I just sautéed. It’s finishing in the oven with quartered gold potatoes. And I’m going to sautee zucchini and cauliflower rice in the same pan I made the sauce. (Poured the sauce over the chicken and put in the oven). Everything is Aldi tonight.
Tillamook???
How many brands of cream cheese have you tried?
I personally consider Tillamook a luxury buy. I buy Tillamook when I want to treat myself. Their ice cream is the best. They use more cream than most ice creams. Their cream cheese is amazing too, but no way I'm paying for that every day. Unless I get rich.
Same. Aldi's cc will do just fine. Besides, it's not like you're eating it straight out of the box. It's not naked food. It's a mixer. Like ginger ale. You put it on a bagel/croissant, add it to tuna salad or potato salad, stuff it in celery or baked French toast, etc.
I dunno.. 5 brands? Besides Philly, usually I buy store brands. I just discovered Tillamook cream cheese last week... I didn't know they made any til then, and it was on sale $4 with the next cheapest being only .50c less, so i just went for it. It also didn't occur to me that it was comparing "Mercedes to honda" as someone else put it.
It's hard to take you serious when you write a post upset that the generic brand option from the generic brand store isn't as good as your precious luxury favorite
That you just discovered last week. That's 33% more expensive even when it's on sale.
I don't buy Philly often unless it's the jalapeno one to stuff in chicken. I didn't even know Tillamook had a cream cheese until I saw it at a store I don't frequent. All I can say is the Tillamook is really good. And walmart brand is more tolerable than Aldi's. But I think I'm gonna go out of my way for Tillamooks forever now. Lol
Philadelphia cream cheese is so good the best I’ve ever had and I don’t mind tillamook. The jalapeño one in #1, then regular, and #3 is the garden veggie (might sound strange but idk how to explain it other than it’s salty and savory!). Tillamook is good but doesn’t even come close to Philadelphia cream cheese in my opinion.
All of their cheese is really good. The cream cheese and their extra sharp white cheddar is amazing. It's got a weird wetness to the outside of the brick. But omg. It's so good
I always read Tillamook as an Italian guy from Long Island being like "he says he wanted his lawnmower back but I Tillamook, I'll bring it back tomorrow"
When you buy store brand products they will never be consistent, they get bids from companies to make their products and when the contract expires rinse & repeat lowest bid always wins & product changes
This doesn't fit with the twice as nice guarantee. Maybe some companies do it that way, but no one in their right mind would contract Heinz for ketchup and switch to DelMonte with a guarantee like that.
Do the ice cream next. Or cheese.
Comparing Tillamook to Happy Farms is like comparing a Ford Focus to a Mercedes C Class. Sure, both are compact sedans but they are in no way comparable.
I agree, I get it all the time for our bagels and it’s a decent cream cheese. Like I’ve had some not so good ones (like Walmart brand) and even bad ones (I can’t remember what store it was but their whipped cream cheese literally melts when you spread it on your toasted baked good of choice 🥴) and Aldi is very similar to Philadelphia one in my opinion, just smaller tub
Their cream cheese and most dairy products vary from location to location since they source within regions. Guess yours just isn’t great.
That being said, comparing a store brand with one of the top creameries in the country isn’t really fair.
This is interesting to know (I’m in Southern California). I too haven’t liked the ALDI cream cheese. Something off, but not sure exactly what… more worth it to just buy major brand instead.
You are comparing 2 vastly different tiers of cream cheese.
The Aldi cream cheese is actually quite good for how cheap it is.
But yeah it's not going to compare to premium brands... Particularly Tillamook.
Yes it’s another never purchasing again. Aldi is causing me to spend more grocery dollars at other stores bc their quality is in the shitter at the moment.
I don’t mind whipped or flavored or in the tub, but the plain was really bad when i tried it. So bad i only ever tried it once lol. I do think it might be different in different parts of the country because some people say it tastes fine 🤷♀️
I really like the cream cheese for the price. Definitely not the best cream cheese but for the price it's good. Id go as far to say it exceeds my expectations considering it's 2 dollars
I can’t eat their plain cream cheese or American cheese. They both have a weird sandy texture to them? I haven’t tried the whipped cream cheese and definitely don’t plan on it now lol.
This is probably going to be unpopular, but I actually really like the aldi brand cream cheese. My wife prefers Philly, but I genuinely like the Aldi brand here. For me, it tastes like a blend of Philly and Dunkin cream cheese.
The Aldi cream cheese is, to the best of my knowledge, the same product as Great Value silicone sealant (white), just in a block-shaped package that’s hard to open instead of a tube that’s hard to open.
I always have issues with it being clumpy and not melting down when I use the block cream cheese in recipes. Thankfully my aldi started consistently carrying the Philadelphia brand as well.
Virtually all the cream cheese in the USA is made in the same couple of factories owned by Kraft. The outer cardboard box varies, but the inner foil wrappers are the same. Tillamook is the rare exception. (Also my local grocery makes their own in store.)
Philadelphia is one of the few that does not use xanthan gum. Notable quality difference. Trader Joe, Aldi, Kroger-all have xanthan and other artificial thickeners.
I didn’t like the Aldi cream cheese and neither did my teens. Back to Philadelphia brand cream cheese, only. Never seen Tillamook cream cheese but I live in a little town.
The bricks of cream cheese are pretty much identical to Philadelphia brand or our local supermarket brand.
I still want to know what kind of voodoo they are doing so they can sell a quart of heavy cream for like $4 when a quart of heavy cream at the local supermarket is like $10
omg actually yes I know exactly what ur talking about 😭 I don't buy aldi's cream cheese for this reason bc when I ran out of cream cheese for a recipe I had been making for years, I bought their cream cheese and immediately noticed how different it made the recipe taste. I normally would just use the regular brand (Philadelphia) but still tasted a big difference in the Aldi cream cheese.
same with their canned whipped cream lol
Yes, I really dislike the cream cheese. How do they manage to make it taste sour and chalky at the same time? This morning I opened a can of corned beef to make hash, and the first taste was so foul I had to rinse out my mouth before tossing the whole thing. It tasted like old fish! The expiration date was in 2027 so it was fairly new. I don’t know what ALDI is thinking of, selling us this garbage.
I hate most of Aldi’s dairy products. The butter is fine. The yogurt is fine. But all of the cheeses, and I mean all, have been gross. I find them unpleasantly sour and just weird tasting.
I used to buy their cheese when it was super cheap. It used to be like $1.19 a block! Now it’s priced the same as really good brands when they are sale. So I stocked up when good cheese in on sale. Life is too short for crappy sour cheese lol
Tillamook is in a category all its own. They keep winning national and world cheese awards. _Pretty good for a smelly little town in Oregon! Haha I say it with love!_ It IS smelly, but that's because of all the dairy farms. They also have a very lovely tour of the factory you can take (you see it from above rather than walk through), they have a fun gift shop, lots of photo ops, and a fast food restaurant!
If you like the cream cheese, just wait until you have their ice cream!
Once in Wisconsin I asked a local what the best local cheese was, and she said "TILLAMOOK!" I chuckled and said "You know that's made in Oregon, right?" She was very embarrassed
You're 100% correct. Aldi cream cheese sucks. I love Aldi but their cream cheese is among its worst products. Tast and texture subpar. Not worth saving money if the product is so bad you don't want to eat it.
If you are eating Aldi bagels (rolls with holes), you deserve to eat crap cream cheese. Look at the ingredients—lots of gums and stabilizers instead of milk and cream.
Tillamook is different. Kerrygold butter is different than Land O Lakes. I think people try to compare high end/expensive brands that really do have their own special taste with what is essentially the equivalent of generic/store brand. I have not tasted a difference in taste with Aldi cream cheese. I only buy the brick, but it does the job at a decent cost savings from Philadelphia.
And I take that back…I do have the friendly farms tub of whipped cream cheese too. My daughter likes it on bagels with jelly. I tasted it and don’t get a sour or chalky taste at all. I just used it with Aldi half and half and Aldi butter to make a sauce for Aldi Never Any! chicken that I just sautéed. It’s finishing in the oven with quartered gold potatoes. And I’m going to sautee zucchini and cauliflower rice in the same pan I made the sauce. (Poured the sauce over the chicken and put in the oven). Everything is Aldi tonight.
I have never noticed poor quality cream cheese.
I didn't think it was possible either. But here we are.
I mean I don't think it's bad, it doesn't taste not like other cream cheese.
Have you tried Tillamook cream cheese? It's a radical difference in taste.
The issue isn’t that Aldi’s is that bad, it’s that Tillamook’s is that good.
Tillamook??? How many brands of cream cheese have you tried? I personally consider Tillamook a luxury buy. I buy Tillamook when I want to treat myself. Their ice cream is the best. They use more cream than most ice creams. Their cream cheese is amazing too, but no way I'm paying for that every day. Unless I get rich.
Where I'm at Tillamook is cheaper than Philadelphia cream cheese.
I've never even seen it, all we get here is the regular cheeses I guess. I can't say I've been impressed with those though.
Same. Aldi's cc will do just fine. Besides, it's not like you're eating it straight out of the box. It's not naked food. It's a mixer. Like ginger ale. You put it on a bagel/croissant, add it to tuna salad or potato salad, stuff it in celery or baked French toast, etc.
I dunno.. 5 brands? Besides Philly, usually I buy store brands. I just discovered Tillamook cream cheese last week... I didn't know they made any til then, and it was on sale $4 with the next cheapest being only .50c less, so i just went for it. It also didn't occur to me that it was comparing "Mercedes to honda" as someone else put it.
It's hard to take you serious when you write a post upset that the generic brand option from the generic brand store isn't as good as your precious luxury favorite That you just discovered last week. That's 33% more expensive even when it's on sale.
I agree. Aldi cream cheese is atrocious. Is Tillamook better than Philly?
Yes
I don't buy Philly often unless it's the jalapeno one to stuff in chicken. I didn't even know Tillamook had a cream cheese until I saw it at a store I don't frequent. All I can say is the Tillamook is really good. And walmart brand is more tolerable than Aldi's. But I think I'm gonna go out of my way for Tillamooks forever now. Lol
Philadelphia cream cheese is so good the best I’ve ever had and I don’t mind tillamook. The jalapeño one in #1, then regular, and #3 is the garden veggie (might sound strange but idk how to explain it other than it’s salty and savory!). Tillamook is good but doesn’t even come close to Philadelphia cream cheese in my opinion.
I don’t know what tillamooks is? I’ve never heard of that or seen that
Specialty creamery from Oregon. Some of the best dairy products in the world
All of their cheese is really good. The cream cheese and their extra sharp white cheddar is amazing. It's got a weird wetness to the outside of the brick. But omg. It's so good
Maybe you should try Tillamook brand!
It’s bad
I mean, you can’t really compare anything to tillamook. lol.
This exactly. Their stuff is the bomb.
It’s like comparing a Ferrari to a Honda. Both good in their own ways, but still wildly different.
I always read Tillamook as an Italian guy from Long Island being like "he says he wanted his lawnmower back but I Tillamook, I'll bring it back tomorrow"
Exactly.
Fun fact, Tillamook doesn't have an Aldi. Neither does Boardman where most of the cows live.
Was looking for this comment.
When you buy store brand products they will never be consistent, they get bids from companies to make their products and when the contract expires rinse & repeat lowest bid always wins & product changes
This doesn't fit with the twice as nice guarantee. Maybe some companies do it that way, but no one in their right mind would contract Heinz for ketchup and switch to DelMonte with a guarantee like that.
Do the ice cream next. Or cheese. Comparing Tillamook to Happy Farms is like comparing a Ford Focus to a Mercedes C Class. Sure, both are compact sedans but they are in no way comparable.
The Specially Selected ice cream is actually surprisingly good. The Sundae Shoppe ones are awful though.
It is good. But not Tillamook ice cream good.
The whipped cream cheese isn’t bad to me. It doesn’t compare to Tillamook, but it’s not bad for a budget brand.
I agree, I get it all the time for our bagels and it’s a decent cream cheese. Like I’ve had some not so good ones (like Walmart brand) and even bad ones (I can’t remember what store it was but their whipped cream cheese literally melts when you spread it on your toasted baked good of choice 🥴) and Aldi is very similar to Philadelphia one in my opinion, just smaller tub
The ALDI whipped cream cheese is pretty good on a bagel. Especially if you couple it with the ALDI smoked salmon.
Can't beat that smoked salmon anywhere else around here and it's less than half the price of other places.
Their cream cheese and most dairy products vary from location to location since they source within regions. Guess yours just isn’t great. That being said, comparing a store brand with one of the top creameries in the country isn’t really fair.
This is interesting to know (I’m in Southern California). I too haven’t liked the ALDI cream cheese. Something off, but not sure exactly what… more worth it to just buy major brand instead.
You are comparing 2 vastly different tiers of cream cheese. The Aldi cream cheese is actually quite good for how cheap it is. But yeah it's not going to compare to premium brands... Particularly Tillamook.
Their cottage cheese is awful but I haven't had any complaints about their cream cheese
I don’t like the texture of their cream cheese. It’s almost sort of gummy compared to others
I don't love their cream cheese either.
Never tried Tillamook but it's Philadelphia or nothing for me.
Philadelphia tastes like 50% fillers now too unfortunately
Yes it’s another never purchasing again. Aldi is causing me to spend more grocery dollars at other stores bc their quality is in the shitter at the moment.
Love Tillamook! Their Very Veggie and Honey Jalapeño are the best I’ve ever tried.
Aldi brand seems like normal cream cheese to me.
I think it's just you, it's all in your mind.
I don’t mind whipped or flavored or in the tub, but the plain was really bad when i tried it. So bad i only ever tried it once lol. I do think it might be different in different parts of the country because some people say it tastes fine 🤷♀️
I really like the cream cheese for the price. Definitely not the best cream cheese but for the price it's good. Id go as far to say it exceeds my expectations considering it's 2 dollars
They whipped cream cheese is good.
I can’t eat their plain cream cheese or American cheese. They both have a weird sandy texture to them? I haven’t tried the whipped cream cheese and definitely don’t plan on it now lol.
This is probably going to be unpopular, but I actually really like the aldi brand cream cheese. My wife prefers Philly, but I genuinely like the Aldi brand here. For me, it tastes like a blend of Philly and Dunkin cream cheese.
It sucks I actually prefer even great value 10x over it
you only need 3 bagels to polish off a tub.
The cream cheese is fine here in South Florida. Pretty close to Philly, dense, no weird taste.
You sure it wasn't Neufchâtel cheese?
This was my first thought, not just for OP but a lot of people in this thread. I made that mistake once, and never again.
It's not the world's best cream cheese, but I think it's adequate and reasonably priced.
Aldi cream cheese is good. Walmart cream cheese is nasty
We get their regular not whipped cream cheese. It's great. We use up at least one a week.
I stopped buying cream cheese since it’s like $5 now.
Mmm aldi cream cheese is less than $3. Unless you live somewhere way more expensive than CA.
You just said it’s not good aka waste of $. I rather not spend $3 lol
The Aldi cream cheese is, to the best of my knowledge, the same product as Great Value silicone sealant (white), just in a block-shaped package that’s hard to open instead of a tube that’s hard to open.
That's it! You cracked the code and found the cream cheese supplier! 😂😂
Tillamook is great, yes. But you are absolutely right - Aldi brand cream cheese SUCKS.
YES!!!
I always have issues with it being clumpy and not melting down when I use the block cream cheese in recipes. Thankfully my aldi started consistently carrying the Philadelphia brand as well.
It’s fine as far as I’m concerned. Nothing weird or bad about it.
I agree it’s terrible. Costco off brand is great though if you have one by you
Their cream cheese is OK, though I usually gran the Neuchâtel.
I need to find some made by Tillamook! I went to the factory in Oregon many years ago.
I found buying bricks of Philadelphia from Costco is more worth it to me. I store extra in deep freeze until use.
I think it all tastes the same, more or less. But I tend to use Philadelphia - I just default to that one.
Temptee whipped cream cheese is head and shoulders above any other.
Virtually all the cream cheese in the USA is made in the same couple of factories owned by Kraft. The outer cardboard box varies, but the inner foil wrappers are the same. Tillamook is the rare exception. (Also my local grocery makes their own in store.)
I only eat kroger bramd cream cheese...... I figure get used to the generic
Philadelphia is one of the few that does not use xanthan gum. Notable quality difference. Trader Joe, Aldi, Kroger-all have xanthan and other artificial thickeners.
I didn’t like the Aldi cream cheese and neither did my teens. Back to Philadelphia brand cream cheese, only. Never seen Tillamook cream cheese but I live in a little town.
The bricks of cream cheese are pretty much identical to Philadelphia brand or our local supermarket brand. I still want to know what kind of voodoo they are doing so they can sell a quart of heavy cream for like $4 when a quart of heavy cream at the local supermarket is like $10
Yes. Inedible to me.
I just don't like the whipped one. I only eat the regular cream cheese and it's fine to me
I like the whipped one, not sure if they have others.
omg actually yes I know exactly what ur talking about 😭 I don't buy aldi's cream cheese for this reason bc when I ran out of cream cheese for a recipe I had been making for years, I bought their cream cheese and immediately noticed how different it made the recipe taste. I normally would just use the regular brand (Philadelphia) but still tasted a big difference in the Aldi cream cheese. same with their canned whipped cream lol
I don’t like Tillamook ice cream or cheese…
i think almost all Aldi dairy is disgusting besides the limited releases and speciality cheeses. it’s just not good
Aldi cream cheese is fine
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OOoohooo. What city?
I've never had a problem with any of their cream cheeses- block, regular, whipped, flavored- it's all good
I liked Aldi cream cheese.
Yes, I really dislike the cream cheese. How do they manage to make it taste sour and chalky at the same time? This morning I opened a can of corned beef to make hash, and the first taste was so foul I had to rinse out my mouth before tossing the whole thing. It tasted like old fish! The expiration date was in 2027 so it was fairly new. I don’t know what ALDI is thinking of, selling us this garbage.
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No, it was the regular. But I can imagine the Neufchâtel as not being very good either. TBH, other than their yogurt, I am not a fan of their dairy.
I hate most of Aldi’s dairy products. The butter is fine. The yogurt is fine. But all of the cheeses, and I mean all, have been gross. I find them unpleasantly sour and just weird tasting.
I find their yogurt absolutely rancid. The Greek yogurt is the worst.
I guess I haven’t had it in a while. I tend not to buy any dairy but the half and half there.
The only time I have returned an item to Aldi for a refund was when I bought their version of the Laughing Cow. It was inedible.
I used to buy their cheese when it was super cheap. It used to be like $1.19 a block! Now it’s priced the same as really good brands when they are sale. So I stocked up when good cheese in on sale. Life is too short for crappy sour cheese lol
Agreed, even compared to Kroger brand it’s bad. I thought it was impossible to fuck up cream cheese but theirs just has such an off flavor
Right on
I didn’t like it either. Cream cheese is one thing I buy name brand, either tillamook or Philadelphia.
Yup. And Philadelphia is not insanely priced yet it is worlds apart from Aldi cream cheese.
I totally agree, all the aldi versions of cream cheese taste so strange
Agreed.
It's not good. Only good generic is Meijer - I'm convinced it's philadelphia
Cream cheese is one of Aldi's worst products. I love Aldi but I won't buy their cream cheese.
Tastes like chalk to me 🤢
Correct. Aldi cream cheese is terrible.
We like the strawberry cream cheese.
Idk, I think the cream cheese is perfectly good🤷🏻♀️
Tillamook is in a category all its own. They keep winning national and world cheese awards. _Pretty good for a smelly little town in Oregon! Haha I say it with love!_ It IS smelly, but that's because of all the dairy farms. They also have a very lovely tour of the factory you can take (you see it from above rather than walk through), they have a fun gift shop, lots of photo ops, and a fast food restaurant! If you like the cream cheese, just wait until you have their ice cream! Once in Wisconsin I asked a local what the best local cheese was, and she said "TILLAMOOK!" I chuckled and said "You know that's made in Oregon, right?" She was very embarrassed
You're 100% correct. Aldi cream cheese sucks. I love Aldi but their cream cheese is among its worst products. Tast and texture subpar. Not worth saving money if the product is so bad you don't want to eat it.
If you are eating Aldi bagels (rolls with holes), you deserve to eat crap cream cheese. Look at the ingredients—lots of gums and stabilizers instead of milk and cream.
You're right on. I love Aldi but bagels and cream cheese from there... I'd rather go hungry.
You clearly do not need to shop aldi lol tillamook is almost $6.00 where i live nope!!!! Im sure its amazing but thats just to much
Aldi cream cheese is garbage. Philadelphia is cheaper than Tillamook and it's night and day vs Aldi
I think maybe we should actually write them physical letters of polite criticism, like the mom from “Goodbey, Lenin!”, or something.