I travel all over Europe and in the majority of countries they have wonderful cheeses displayed in their deli's and supermarkets. A huge range of different shapes,colours, sizes, flavours etc. British have teeny tubes, only soft cheese triangles and mouldy infected Stilton. Why is this?
2007-09-04 10:48:53 · 33 answers · asked by Blokheed 5 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
where have you been shopping in britain?
We have some great cheeses.
We can also cut it to any size or shape you would like!
And yes different colours and flavours are widely available. Lol!
2007-09-04 10:58:23 · answer #1 · answered by zippy 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you've obviously been looking in the wrong places.
Heres a list of British cheeses:
Bath blue
Buxton Blue cheese
Devon Blue
Dorset Blue Vinney cheese
Dunsyre Blue
Exmoor Blue cheese
Harbourne Blue
Lanark Blue
Oxford Blue
Ribblesdale Blue Goat
Shropshire Blue
Stilton
Colston Bassett Blue Stilton
Goodliffe fine rennet blue
Blue Wensleydale
Yorkshire Blue
Blacksticks Blue
Black bevon welsh
Bonchester cheese
Balcombe brown ring
Brinkburn
Caithness cheese
Caboc (a Scottish cheese with an oatmeal coating.)
Caerphilly cheese
Cheddar cheese
West Country Farmhouse Cheddar
Cheshire cheese
Appleby Cheshire
Chevington cheese
Coleraine cheddar
Coquetdale
Cotherstone
Cotswold cheese
Coverdale
Croglin
Crowdie
Derby cheese
Double Gloucester cheese
Goosnargh Gold
Dorstone cheese
Dovedale cheese
Dunlop cheese
Farmhouse Llanboidy
Fine Fettle Yorkshire Cheese (formally Yorkshire Feta)
Goldilocks
Black Eyed Susan
Golden Cross
Gruth Dhu
Harlech
Horeb cheese is a Welsh mozzarella
Huntsman cheese
Huntsman cheese
Netting Hill Cheese
Ilchester cheese
Innkeepers Choice
Isle of Mull
Lancashire cheese
Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese
Leicester cheese
Lincolnshire Poacher cheese
Radden Blue
Katy's White Lavender
Kidderton Ash
Lord of the Hundreds
Lowerdale Goats Cheese
Pantysgawn
Red Devil
Red Dragon
Red Leicester cheese
Rothbury Red
Red Windsor cheese
Sage Derby cheese
Shipton Moyne cheese
Single Gloucester cheese
Stinking Bishop cheese
Swaledale cheese
Teviotdale cheese
Tintern
Waterloo cheese
Wensleydale cheese
White Stilton cheese
Whitehaven
Cornish Yarg cheese
Village Green Goat
Y Fenni
2007-09-05 01:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
British cheeses are fantastic, but typically are hard cheeses. If you think we only have soft processed triangles and "mouldy" Stilton, which is a wonderful cheese, you are wrong, or you overlooked many cheeses. You never tried Bath Blue, Buxton Blue, Devon, Dorset or Dunsyre Blue, Blue Stilton, Blue Wensleydale, Bolchester, Caithness, Cheshire, Cheddar (many varieties), Cotswold, Derby, Double Gloucester, Dovedale, Yorkshire (an English feta!), Harlech, Lancashire (crumbly, pungent and fantastic), Lincolnshire Poacher, Red Leicester, Stinking Bishop, White Stilton, Cornish Yarg or Y Fenni. These are just a few of the 800 or so cheeses in Britain (not to mention the British Bries, Camemberts etc)
2007-09-04 11:04:32 · answer #3 · answered by Phil McCracken 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When in England buy cheese from a specialist shop. Stilton is supposed to be blue/green veined. It's not mouldy! Have you tried Roquefort (French) or Gorgonzola (Italian) - they're both mouldy, as you put it.
I actually travel abroad to buy real Cheddar cheese. Well, I drive three kms. over the border from Switzerland to Germany.
Let's talk about the UK: Caerphilly (Wales), Lancashire, Wensleydale, the dreaded Stilton, red Leicester, Cheddar and many, many local cheeses including goat's milk and ewe's milk cheeses.
I hope you don't come from the USA, where they call both Gruyère (which has little holes) and Emmental (which has big holes) 'Swiss cheese'.
The holes are made by bacterial action. You may never eat cheese again!
2007-09-04 21:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stilton. Go tell a Frenchman that his Roquefort is 'mouldy and infected' and you'll get your bagages wrapped around your bouche before you can say zut!
Cheddar (British) is the single most popular cheese in the world. Stilton is described as the "King of Cheeses" (see Larousse Gastronomique). Cheshire, Wensleydale, Red Leicester - all renowned.
Caerphilly (Welsh); Dunlap (Scots); Cashel Blue (Republic of Ireland - British Isles but not British) - all magnificent.
I live in a small town with only one big supermarket, plus a co-op and Somerfield, but I can put all these cheeses on my plate (including Cashel Blue).
I can cite numerous foreign cheeses that are also excellent -Roquefort for a start, Pond LEvaque, Brie, Gruyere, Bavarian smoked, Emmanthal, Camembert, Port Salut, Edam, Jarlsburger, Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, Mozarella, Danish Blue etc, but even the French, generally not much given towards British cuisine, admire and use our cheeses.
2007-09-04 11:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You obviously do not know how a Stilton should be eaten so as to enjoy its flavour.
You need a Silver spoon to scoop out the cheese from the centre, eat with crackers or brown bread and washed down with Port.
We also have solid cheeses from every county in the UK some with overpowering flavour. Not the tubes and wedges you claim.
2007-09-05 07:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by Terry G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well 1st of all our cheeses are not rubbish, the supermarkets which dominate here sell only a small range, slightly more than those you describe however.
The fact that the full range of British cheeses is largely unavailable is due in part to our over dependence on the supermarket chains.
Seek out good cheese & you will be surprised at the diverse range on offer. Incidentally you don't say where you are from, please tell us.
2007-09-04 11:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by lone groover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is far more cheeses then the ones you have mentioned. I for one like British cheese, in particular West Country mature cheese and have a complete aversion camenbaire.(sorry for the spelling). It really is a matter of personal taste. There are some amazing delicatessens that have the most fabulous displays and a wide variety of British cheeses, try looking in different places, such as farmers markets for a change.
2007-09-04 11:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by enlightened goddess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure you haven't traveled all over the United Kingdom. I'm not British, but I disagree. Haven't you ever tasted British cheddar cheese? It's absolutely wonderful. Stilton cheese is supposed to have mold in it. It comes from the same family as blue cheese, Roquefort cheese, and Asiago.
2007-09-04 11:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by gldjns 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok BLOCKHEAD,
We did similar on "Sausages" last week didn't we? However,if you could bring yourself AWAY from the likes of "Tesco" etc; & travel around this country a little more perhaps to "Moreton on the Marsh" in Stratford (which my guess is you've not heard of that either) or maybe North Yorkshire, you will begin to have your eyes opened, All over the country are cheese farms,deli's & farm shops that sell cheeses to bowl you over with delight.Perhaps you might consider gathering a few to take ALL OVER EUROPE with you & STAY THERE !
2007-09-04 19:39:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
British cheeses are not rubbish!!!! There's a great selection of them, but I have to agree that it's frustrating to look at what we're offered at the supermarkets. The Deli cheese section is usually tiny compared with the supermarkets abroad, the section in the refrigerated area consist mostly of 3 kinds of cheese: mild cheddar, medium cheddar and mature cheddar. I'm sick of it!!! There's more to British cheeses than cheddar!!!
2007-09-04 11:06:04 · answer #11 · answered by fed up woman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋