When I came to Russia I could not find cream cheese… This was granted many years ago, but still no cream cheese for many years thereafter….if I did find it, it was extremely expensive and imported. Not very popular when it costs more than an arm and a leg and or your first born, just to eat some processed milk product…
But…
Russians have discovered cream cheese and my sweetie pie loves the stuff. Sometimes a meal is nothing but crackers and cream cheese in our house. Yummy is the word for cream cheese and now we have tons of the stuff in the stores…
Cream cheese translates to: сливочный сыр…
You have to watch for it made with palm oil, but most is the real stuff and it is oh so good…
Russians even steal variations of the famous names. Violia became violette….Violia is an Estonian company, but ours is better… 🙂
There are now dozens of Russian made cream cheese to pick from and as the one on the right shows, they even mix stuff in it. Oh my! Mushroom cream cheese is so good…
This is what I talk about, Russians have flourished with the sanctions put against her. Everything is being made and now being made in mass quantities…
Simply put: keep the sanctions going and I know that the farmers and producers are happy. But then so are the consumers. When we all have such quality things as cream cheese to eat and it is very cheap, we all are happy…
I know a little girl of mine that loves her Russian cream cheese and that is what counts…
Just passing on some real truths about Russia and not the propaganda that you get all the time from the MSM…
WtR