Would you put whipped cream on jello/jelly? That’s also dairy and features heavily in dessert. Cream cheese is used to make some icing, cheese cake is basically a brick of sweetened cream cheese. So cream cheese also shows up in desserts.
So the person who came up with it was just familiar with how desserts work.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean… the Brits invented “mushy peas”
BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Brits really did what they could to deserve sayings like the one about how their food, women and weather were the reasons why they became such a great seafaring nation.