Roquefort is Innocent!

[vinteuil]

Many years ago, in a work discussion about monitoring and evalauation, I suggested that I'd like to sell cheese - you start the week with a big cheddar and you end the week with a mousetrap piece. You can see what you've been doing, you can see what's left, perfick. And if you customers return, even better.

That discussion took a while to get going again

... but for me the great advantage of being a maître affineur would be that I wdn't have to sell anything - indeed wdn't need to have any dealings with the public at all

[amateur51]

... but for me the great advantage of being a maître affineur would be that I wdn't have to sell anything - indeed wdn't need to have any dealings with the public at all

Very true, vints, very true

[teamsaint]

Just been having a nibble of Tesco Canadian Extra Mature Cheddar. Very nice.

but the pack describes it as " Sharp and Fruity".

well it isn't Fruity at all. who wants fruity cheese?
I like my cheese cheesy, not fruity.
If I want fruit, I eat fruit.

If I remembered to get some at the shops, of course.

[Beef Oven!]

Just been having a nibble of Tesco Canadian Extra Mature Cheddar. Very nice.

but the pack describes it as " Sharp and Fruity".

well it isn't Fruity at all. who wants fruity cheese?
I like my cheese cheesy, not fruity.
If I want fruit, I eat fruit.

If I remembered to get some at the shops, of course.

I'm fussy about cheese - has to be the best. Cathedral City or Cracker Barrel. None of that foreign muck.

[teamsaint]

I'm fussy about cheese - has to be the best. Cathedral City or Cracker Barrel. None of that foreign muck.

foreign maybe, but the Tesco Canadian is GUARANTEED to be only from purely grass fed cattle, roaming the bilingual prairies of upper Canadia .

maybe they should merge cracker barrel and Cathedral city to get British super cheese to compete with the best.

[Beef Oven!]

foreign maybe, but the Tesco Canadian is GUARANTEED to be only from purely grass fed cattle, roaming the bilingual prairies of upper Canadia .

maybe they should merge cracker barrel and Cathedral city to get British super cheese to compete with the best.

Keep them separate, best to have two British cheeses competing for top place. Competition enhances quality.

[teamsaint]

Keep them separate, best to have two British cheeses competing for top place. Competition enhances quality.

fair.

but what about this " fruitiness" thing?

[Beef Oven!]

fair.

but what about this " fruitiness" thing?

If I want fruit, I'll eat an apple. I like my food plain.

[jean]

There's a Norwegian cheese that tastes like fudge.

[Beef Oven!]

There's a Norwegian cheese that tastes like fudge.

There's a Cadbury's Fudge that tastes like soap.

[Dave2002]

There's a Norwegian cheese that tastes like fudge.

One of the ones near the top of this listing I expect - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gjetost-Gudb...rwegian+cheese

I think gjetost (as spelled here) simply means goats cheese. I used to like that quite a lot.

[amateur51]

foreign maybe, but the Tesco Canadian is GUARANTEED to be only from purely grass fed cattle, roaming the bilingual prairies of upper Canadia .

maybe they should merge cracker barrel and Cathedral city to get British super cheese to compete with the best.

I'm with you on the Canadian cheddar teams.

I think its key asset is that it's made from unpasteurised milk so there's none of that UHT back-taste.

As to Cathedral City, I suspect BO's taste buds have been scorched by the Algerian whisky he's most likely been raving about.

[jean]

I think its key asset is that it's made from unpasteurised milk so there's none of that UHT back-taste.

I agree raw milk cheese tases better - but pasteurised isn't the same as UHT!

[amateur51]

I agree raw milk cheese tases better - but pasteurised isn't the same as UHT!

I'm sure you're right, jean.

Both involve heating the milk which can lead to a change in the taste which I don't like, and which I associate with UHT milk and which I taste in cheese from pasteurised milk.

The packaging refers to 'unpasteurised' milk.

[teamsaint]

here is a useful list, which I always forget to take to the shops.

Not sure I was absolutely correct about the guaranteed " grass fed" nature of the Tesco Canadian cheese, but at least it seems to be in the " good " category.
The grass fed thing seems to be all the rage.

http://www.naturalfoodfinder.co.uk/dairy-eggs