People learning to read and then getting upset to discover Elmlea isn’t cream

[TheoGB]

AIBU to be annoyed by them???

It’s written on the packet. I can’t really understand why people are so annoyed. “I bought this cream substitute by accident and it was shit” seems like fairly average stuff. Getting angry about it seems odd; having consumed enough of it while not liking it that you feel aggrieved is just WTAF territory.

On a similar note is Baby Bel real cheese or not?

yes, its cheese. It's almost edam but not quite. It absolutely is cheese.

Do people who are horrified by oil blended into butter not cook with oil? I don’t understand why it’s such an issue?

Who's horrified by it? I don't like the stuff, I'm hardly horrified.

I use oil, I use butter. I have no interest in butter mixed with oil as its neither one thing nor the other and I have no use for it.

Is it true that Edam is made backwards??

My DH recently bought Elmlea. He had no idea that it wasn't real cream when he bought it. It's not like it says Fake Cream in large letters on the packet.

He had no idea that it wasn't real cream when he bought it. It's not like it says Fake Cream in large letters on the packet

It says ALTERNATIVE to CREAM in quite large letters right on the front. So yeah, it pretty much does say that. It also says vegetable oils, vegetable fats and milk under ingredients, another clue!

Do people who are horrified by oil blended into butter not cook with oil? I don’t understand why it’s such an issue?

I cook with beef, but I don't expect it to be a main ingredient of... yoghurt, for example. The fact that Elmlea is made of oil but marketed as cream isn't horrifying because oil is bad, it's horrifying because who wants to pour buttermilky oil on their apple pie? Elmlea tastes rank.

I dunno about Edam Theo, but I do know what kind of cheese you need to disguise a small horse.

I though it was cream for a loooooong time - until mn educated me in a thread like this a couple of years ago :o

I think it's a generational thing.

My grandparents used it and called it cream. So my parents then did the same. So I grew up assuming it was cream. I've only known for a year or two that it isn't, because I don't go roubd questioning everything I was ever told. Just like my parents referring to margarine as butter, so I was only about 18 when I learnt the difference.

I don't think people are stupid for not realising, I think it's more in the use of language (i.e. a household referring to a synthetic product as the name of the original product)

It’s great in coffee

It really bloody is. I don't care that it's fake.

It says ALTERNATIVE to CREAM in quite large letters right on the front.

There are 3 bits of text on the front of this packaging that are far larger than 'alternative to cream'.

Still very that so many people here seem to read everything on the packaging of all the food they buy.

I can see why people think it’s cream - it comes in similar looking tubs, in single and double varieties (pretty sure single is red and double is blue, as with regular cream at Tesco) and it’s kept in the fridge next to the cream.

I agree that it’s vile and warned XP not to dare bring it home instead of real cream as he had done previously (he didn’t read it, thought it was cream) but I can see how it happens.

It’s like saying why do they have regular milk and Cravendale next to each other, along with chocolate milk, goats milk etc. It’s just a different type of the same thing (a ‘creamy’ pouring topping. Same way they have sour cream, Creme fraiche, etc

Just googled it to check the colour of the tubs and saw this. Now tell me that doesn’t just look like branded cream.

Isnt that the old label? Its bigger on the newer ones.

Elemlea sounds like a very unpleasant medical condition. I don't know what it actually is but I wouldn't really expect it not to be cream if the packaging looks like cream.

I don't get the anti elmla hysteria on MN.
Its not vile/foul/disgusting
Its fine.
Don't like it, don't buy it.
Just stop using it as a signifier of your (used generally) superior palate.

No one cares

Isnt that the old label? Its bigger on the newer ones.

I did wonder that but I can't find any pics of packaging where 'alternative to cream' is written much larger than the one I posted.

I don't get the anti elmla hysteria on MN

Nobody is hysterical, and its hardly a daily thread.

Its not vile/foul/disgusting. Its fine

In your opinion. In mine and others its revolting. Why would you imagine you can make any kind of objective pronouncment about it?

I buy elmlea- it is not as nice as real cream but lasts much longer so is handy to keep in the fridge. I am under no illusions that it is cream.

Still very hmm that so many people here seem to read everything on the packaging of all the food they buy.

people like to know what they are feeding their children with, or what they put in their own body, what's wrong with that? If you buy mainly fresh food, it doesn't take that long to check the labels of the rest.

There was a thread where people didn't realise that rusks contained sugar, or that much sugar

Its not vile/foul/disgusting. Its fine Its gross and doesn't taste like cream.
Does anyone know what the point of it is? Because it's not even dairy free

Still very hmm that so many people here seem to read everything on the packaging of all the food they buy

Maybe not everything, but enough to understand what I'm actually buyinh. I'm pretty bemused that anyone thinks that is odd! Do you just throw random food stuffs into the trolley and hope it comes together as meals?

Thanks, always wondered but never googled. I'd rather just make another cake to quickly finish the cream off

It's horrible. Greek Style yoghurt may not be proper Greek yoghurt, but at least it's yoghurt. Whereas what Elmlea is doesn't really have a name. It's a substitute for a proper food.

It is, however, totally understandable that people think it's cream (until they taste it), because it's obviously deliberately marketed to look like cream.