If I said "get some cheese spread"

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

I'm now craving Primula

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Ohhh... I was with you all the way till you said you specified 'tub'. You can't even get dairylea etc in a tub can you?
Surely it'd dry out and go rubbery once you opened it?

I'd think you were a heathen.

Philly.
But I’m American and even though I’ve lived here in the UK longer than in my own country, I’ve never actually eaten Dairylea.

I was with you at first. Cheese spread being Dairylea/Primula for sure. But afraid you've muddied the waters with your "spready cheese in a tub". That's Philadelphia..

That leg you had to stand on from your OP has been cut from you by your choice of words.

Maybe you could salvage the situation and make a cheese cake instead?

I think you lost the clarity with spready cheese rather than cheese spread I'm afraid. That would be any cheese that spreads, whereas I agreed with you when it was cheese spread.

(I now can't read the word spread.)

I'd be like wtf nobody eats cheese spread

Does it go in the cheese drawer, though?

Laughing Cow for the win! Such an underrated gal.

As a kid in the 80s we used to get cheese spread in a jar - maybe Kraft? It was orange and we had it on toast. We called it “spreader cheddar” in our house.

Oh dear.
‘Spready cheese in a tub’ is very ambiguous.
Spready cheese is actual cheese that spreads, whereas cheese spread is a spread allegedly made from cheese.

And in a tub?

You have to let him have the Get Out Of Jail Free card on this one.

Seriously strong spreadable, obsessed with it

Seriously strong cheddar cheese spread. Because it's something I actually buy.
I call philadelphia style stuff cream cheese, but that's probably something else.
Dairylea is a cheese spread though, so if it was something I bought I'd probably think of that.

“Get some cheese spread” = bring me Laughing Cow
“Get me spready cheese in a tub, not triangles” = Philadelphia

Cheese spread = spreadable cheese, therefore must be Primula

I have a sneaky liking for Vache qui Rit.

I would be stumped because I'd call Philadelphia, Philadelphia or cream cheese and I'd call Dairy Lea triangles.

Ah see I was with you all the way until you muddied the waters with “spready cheese in a tub”

Cream cheese is not cheese spread it’s cheese that spreads.

I was obsessed with Primula as a child until I discovered it was Norwegian and started boycotting it because of Norway’s whaling industry. Thirty years on and they’re still slaughtering whales so it’s Laughing Cow in this house.

"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 will be because they consider it 'processed food' and therefore beneath them.

I would say "not in the triangles because I can't open them" makes it clear. That is the flavour you want, but not in the triangle format.

If that wasn't available in a tub, I might have bought soft cheese as a possible substitute.

Laughing cow, we got dairylea as a substitute once and it’s revolting.

Philly is definitely cream cheese, not cheese spread

Cheese spread I'd say was Primula in a tube, I wouldn't class either Dairylea or Philadelphia as cheese spread! Isn't Dairylea in soft cheese triangles?!

Mmm I fancy some Dairylea on white bread now, I haven’t had that for years.
I’ve never seen cheese spread in a tub, is that a thing ? I would assume triangles or tube.