Chat thread – Saturday 12th April
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@freckles – That’s a blow – guess I’ll have to make do with 2 kg of honey and shellfish then!
@JDB, don’t worry, I buy plenty of British cheese. There are some fantastic Lancashire and Yorkshire cheeses which grace our table for every day eating. I mainly bring goat and sheep cheese back from the continent as I find the ones produced in the UK to be average quality and very expensive.Hyatt hotels and resorts spend £300 get £75 back, just landed on my BAPP, adding to the other similar one’s appearing in the last week or so.
£100 cashback on a spend of £250 or more for me.
@NorthernLass – for British goat cheese – Sinodun Hill and Brightwell Ash (by the same maker) can rival any French one. Dazel Ash, Ticklemore and the Rosary range (especially the one with rind) are also very superior products from England. There’s a good Welsh one – Pant-Ys-Gawn a land that is really growing in the cheese world.
There are equally plenty of tip top British sheep cheeses! Plenty of English ‘pecorino’ around. The White Lake company makes quite a few good quality sheep cheeses. Spenwood and Wigmore, both local to us are superb cheeses. Lanark Blue is a Roquefort style sheep cheese.
The list goes on for both! Many of these cheeses are sold in France.
Pant-Ys-Gawn, that was a favourite of ours when we were training at RAF Valley!
@NorthernLass, I know you are quite partial to bringing cheese back from travels, but looks like this is not allowed (temporarily) from EU anymore
https://www.gov.uk/bringing-food-into-great-britain/meat-dairy-fish-animal-products
With the amazing cheeses (and indeed charcuterie) we are now producing in the UK, buying cheese in France or other countries isn’t really worthwhile any longer unless it is very local/specialist ones. Plus supporting British farmers. Rædwald is a great, brand new English cheese, the season for which has sadly just finished. I’m told we now have more cheeses in the UK than in France, by some margin.
@NorthernLass, I know you are quite partial to bringing cheese back from travels, but looks like this is not allowed (temporarily) from EU anymore
https://www.gov.uk/bringing-food-into-great-britain/meat-dairy-fish-animal-products
That’s a blow. Guess I’ll have to make do with 2 kg of honey and shellfish then …
Cheese, along with most things, is much better value in Spain than in France (and the U.K.). You can get a big block of Manchego or aged Queso de Cabra for a few euros and it keeps well in the freezer. I’ll keep buying British cheese, of course, but hope the ban is indeed temporary. Also for the jamón ibérico!
Finnair cancelling some flights to US. Hope some are diverted to Asia.
To be honest I think French AOC/PDO cheese prices are equivalent, France or UK. There is a “double standard” for cheesemaking: each of these PDO’s have two sets of rules: for industrial cheese (Carrefour, Monoprix etc) and small batch production (available at a specialist cheesemonger). The stuff in French supermarkets is exactly the same as in the UK and prices are too, it’s just built into the margin.
There is ‘real’ Brie de Meaux, Brie de Melun, Rochefort, Comté etc. and there is it’s supermarket equivalent, the difference is night and day and the price is too obviously since good cheese is laborious.
Yes, good quality ‘real’ cheese is similarly expensive whether you buy it in the UK, France, Spain, Italy etc.
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