Very important cheese question

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Has anyone tried to take cheese from the UK to the EU in their hand luggage? Did it get confiscated?!

Asking for a friend 🧀

I did it the other way around. Brought a big chunk of Parmesan back from Milan in hand luggage. No one noticed 😁

Interesting! The cheese is limited where I live (halloumi and feta only) so Im hoping to smuggle some fine English cheeses back with me 🤫

My SIL smuggles Cheshire and Wensydale when flying back to her home in Europe. Not yet caught, 23yrs of doing this.

@TheMooch

My SIL smuggles Cheshire and Wensydale when flying back to her home in Europe. Not yet caught, 23yrs of doing this.

I thought there was a new rule banning meat and cheese between EU and the UK? Maybe it was just a bad dream?

My SIL.was never sure about the rules... and she reckoned the checkers of passports and bags made it up at her country of living.

I've never checked - perhaps this year I won't wrap her Wenslydale up in a sock...

@TheMooch

My SIL smuggles Cheshire and Wensydale when flying back to her home in Europe. Not yet caught, 23yrs of doing this.

But it wasn't illegal until a year or two ago, so that doesn't mean anything.

OP you could risk it, or isn't there a supermarket in your home country aimed at tourists that sells non local cheeses.

When we go abroad we mainly shop in the local supermarkets but I have seen ones that caters for Brits who can't manage without Heinz baked beans or a brand of butter or cereal that they recognise.