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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, not at all. That I'd have no issue with. Now, Hellman's makes a number of different variants IIRC, and I can't tell you which particular one this was as I haven't bought it since, but: I mean 'pumped' as in 'foamy' or perhaps a better term would be 'areated'. Filled with visible bubbles of some gas - I don't actually know whether it was nitrogen or something else, but nitrogen would make sense due to the same reasons you pointed out. I suspect it was done as a shrinkflation strategy to sell the same apparent volume of product, whilst saving on material production inputs. It certainly did nothing beneficial for the texture. I don't really want my "mayonnaise" to feel like poorly whipped cream.

I've seen the same thing done for some cream cheeses, and likely for the same reason. I don't buy those more than once either.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I've seen that kind of whipped cream cheese as well. They're always trying some new gimmick. Which I guess on one hand is nice because innovation, but mostly I just think they want people to buy it because it's shiny and new.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Those whipped cream cheeses are easy as fuck to spread on a bagel with the shitty plastic knives they give you. Same stuff, just made spreadable. You can just tear off a chunk and dip it if you want. No change to the taste and the difference in texture is negligible because the bagel is 99% of that.

    This is one of the rare processed food "innovations" that's actually good. Regular cream cheese is only for cooking now.

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