I will eat cream cheese on anything, including a white bread sandwich, even including just eating it on its own. Yum.
Hell, I’m drinking a cream cheese martini right now…
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Cream cheese with perhaps a little sliced cucumber and/or fresh summer tomato.
But I’ll gladly eat cream cheese on bread… or perhaps whipped cream cheese spread on a tortilla and rolled up. I’m odd like that.
Cream cheese and grape jelly on white bread. Nom nom nom…
I’ve also made tea sandwiches with tomatoes and cream cheese on rye, or cucumber and cream cheese on pumpernickel.
We have a local restaurant that sells nothing but gourmet grilled cheese. My favorite from them is peanut butter, banana and cream cheese with a raspberry dipping sauce.
You ever try wrapping slices of salami around a half tablespoon of cream cheese and poppin’ it like an appetizer? Don’t do it, unless you only have one slice of salami and one half tablespoon of cream cheese. Otherwise you’ll have eaten a whole brick of cream cheese with salami.
I used to eat creamed cheese & jelly sandwiches in grade school all the time, I loved them.
I’ve cut back on the CC now just for health reasons, but I wish I could still eat as much as I wanted.
Cream cheese and jelly is just plain bizarre. A Cream cheese and ketchup white bread sandwich, however…
I’d never heard of cream cheese on white bread before, but why not? Sounds yummy. A bagel is basically bread anyway.
I’ve had cream cheese and jelly open-faced on a toasted bagel for breakfast. It’s like a fruit and cheese danish.
Another vote for cream cheese and (grape) jelly sandwiches. I haven’t had one in many years, but they were a pretty common feature of our brown bagged lunches growing up…
Yeah, in what world is cream cheese and jelly or jam considered “weird”?
Anyhow, we generally had our cream cheese sandwiches with savories like pickles, Canadian bacon, dill, and the such, or simply plain. However, fruit preserves or honey were perfectly acceptable, too.
Yeah, if you’ve ever had a fruit-topped cheesecake, you’ve had cream cheese and jelly.
Oh my GOD I’m so hungry right now.
My mom used to make sandwiches with cream cheese on sliced Boston brown bread-in-the-can. Yummy! We had it as a side dish with dinner.
Wow! I had forgotten those, but we had plenty of them in my early days. Great stuff. Also wanted to mention that the olives mentioned upthread (as well as the pecans and bacon I already said), were great as well.
The neat thing about cream cheese is that it can compliment sweet things as well as salty ones with equal grace. Plus, it’s good by itself.
Love canned brown bread. It’s the closest thing in an average American grocery store to an English pudding.
Cream cheese, cocktail sauce and shrimp on crackers are one of the few old middle-American treats that’s survived my exposure to all the international stuff that’s appeared on the scene since I was a kid. Of course, the sauce has to be augmented with extra horseradish.
I seem to recall a time in first grade or so when my mom made me a cream cheese & (grape) jelly sandwich on white bread every day for what seemed like an eternity. Turned me right off cream cheese until I was an adult and became reacquainted with bagels. Now I enjoy it, and I’m probably going to try some of these suggestions.
OTOH, Mom remembers nothing of this, and claims to have never even heard of this combination. So perhaps I am dreaming…but I did stop eating cream cheese for about 20 years after first grade.
I love cream cheese sandwiches. My mom used to make them for us with raisin bread sometimes - delicious!
I think my favorite is cream cheese with fresh sliced jalapeno peppers on rye.
Whoa! Thanks for the trip in the way-back machine, as well as a source of canned brown bread - I hadn’t seen that in years.
Are we related? Cream cheese + pumpernickel bread = the majority of my lunches during childhood. I remember I got made fun of by a classmate one time because of it (she had never seen pumpernickel bread before, for one thing).
I sometimes eat cream cheese right out of the package when I’m drunk (shit-faced).