How did Philadelphia Cream Cheese get its name?
There is a place that makes Philly cheese right near us about 20 miles away. It got hurt in the floods from about 1 1/2 years ago but they wee really quick to get it going again because it’s such a popular product! The price went up for awhile as there was a shortage here in the east coast of the USA. Cream cheese originated in the United States in 1872 when a dairyman in Chester, New York, developed a ‘richer cheese than ever before,’ made from cream as well as whole milk. Then in 1880, a New York cheese distributor, A. L. Reynolds, first began distributing cream cheese wrapped in tin-foil wrappers, calling it Philadelphia Brand….The name “Philadelphia Brand cream cheese” was adopted by Reynolds for the product because at that time, top-quality food products often originated in or were associated with the city, and were often referred to as being “Philadelphia quality.
