If I said "get some cheese spread"

[PomBearWithoutHerOFRS]

What would you get - Dairylea type, or Philadelphia type?
What would you call the other type?

Is this to settle an argument?

I knew it!
Cheese spread is NOT soft/cream cheese!
All the suggestions - Dairylea (in a tub or triangles) Primula (which is delicious and still available) Cathedral city of cheapo own brand are all cheese spread.
I feel vindicated!

I'd get the Dairylea type. I'd call the other kind cream cheese, and I'd be very careful to specify full fat, otherwise it's not worth buying.

Cheese Spread?
It does depend on context. Children involved, dairylea or that Laughing Cow one, just me and adult DH I'd assume Philidelphia was required.

Why, what happened??

Laughing cow, primula, or dairylea.

Primula.

Philadelphia is cream cheese and you can bake with it.

Dairylea will not cross my threshold! Or Laughing Cow.

If you asked me for cheese spread, I would ask you to clarify what you meant, because I would be surprised. In the unlikely event of me asking for cheese spread, I would mean Dairylea-YUCK-and I would call Philadelphia cream cheese.

Primula, all day!

Horrible squeezy cheese, Primula or Dairylea or some other hideous reprocessed psuedocheeze shite.

Except I wouldn't, because I'm quite capable of making an executive decision that that stuff won't come in this house. And DP would never ask, because I'm also capable of making an executive decision to not have a DP that would.

I’d get Philadelphia. It’s spreadable cheese!! I’ve not had dairylea in 30 years.

I'd have thought Darrylea or Cathedral City for spread.

Is there something wrong with Dairylea I don't know about? A few people saying they won't touch it or have it in the house?

It's an argument DH doesn't know we're going to have. If I start it now it will end in divorce or murder... But he bought the wrong one.
You know when the only thing you want, you have none, so you ask for some (he was going to the shop anywsy, not a special trip) and you wait, and antivipate, and then he comes home with random shit labelled "soft cheese"?
Well, that happened.
I daren't even mention it though cos it is literally the teeny tiny pebble that starts the massive avalanche.... Oooooo, that felt good to get out!

Has there been a cheese-based altercation at your house, op?

I,d get an own brand of philedelpia, or primula. probably not dairylea.
But you know if you want a specific item then be specific.

Oops. X post! I see there hasn't....yet!

Cheese spread - dairylea

Cream cheese - philadelphia

Unless it's something you have in all the time I wouldn't have known what to get you but would have avoided dairylea.

I'm still scarred by childhood experiences of grim not-cheese dairylea hideousness...

Why would you want spreadable cheese?

Cheese spread is something like dairylea, laughing cow. Something that isn’t cheese really but is a spreadable cheese flavour.

Philadelphia is soft cheese or cream cheese. It is actual cheese.

I asked for "spready cheese, in a tub, not the triangles cos I can't unwrap them".
I shocked myself with the rage I got when he got back, it's taken a while to realise it's a "final straw" thing. (And why I avoided AIBU cos I possibly probably am)

Unless it was clearly going to be used with smoked salmon and bagels I’d default to dairylea if asked.

That is a divorce worthy argument. If you are on the mood for cheese spread, soft cheese won’t do. It’s not the same thing at all.

"Spready cheese, in a tub, not the triangles" would definitely get you Philadelphia type stuff. So it's your own fault!

Primula 100%...love it !! Salty and unhealthy but yummy!!

I can't stand the bought stuff so I make my own with grated strong cheddar type cheese, a small sweet chopped onion and mayonnaise mixed in a food processor.

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS

I asked for "spready cheese, in a tub, not the triangles cos I can't unwrap them". I shocked myself with the rage I got when he got back, it's taken a while to realise it's a "final straw" thing. (And why I avoided AIBU cos I possibly probably am)

You don't need to unwrap them. Just use a bitter knife to cut through the middle of the edge so it opens like a book.