Do you like cheese? Are you patriotic?

[PrettyCandles]

"I don't see the point in foreign cheeses."

AIBU to think that this is an utterly ridiculous and blinkered statement?

so they eat only their nations food - i'd say its pretty limiting.

There are a lot of good british cheeses nowadays, a lot of artisan producers and so forth. You can even get buffalo milk mozarrella made here now, I saw it on the telly. There's a cheese shop in the town near me and man, it stinks, but it is my favourite shop ever. It's like a cool, welcoming Aladdin's Cave of cheese. You can wander around and they let you try little slivers of whatever you want. I think they only sell about five foreign cheeses, the rest are british.

Oh FGS - you can't g et unpasteurised cheeses in USA? And we complain about the nanny state here in the UK!

This person is British and an excellent, thuogh unfancy, cook. The family love cheese and it's generally on the table twice a day. But they are very insular. I sometimes wonder whether the word 'cheeses' is a substitute for 'wimmin', translation: "Why couldn't he have married an Englishwoman?"

Can you guess who says it?

Oh I agree with the posters who say there are wonderful English cheeses (I'm looking forward to the Cornish Yarg that's waiting for me in the cheese box), but Continental cheeses are a whole range of new flavours, textures, experiences. Why limit yourself?

There is an argument that food is better when its local so that all thouugh there are so many yummy cheeses from the rest of europe we should eat british cheeses when we are at home and save the comte for holidays. Moreover if greedy guts like me don't eat british cheeses then their market will disappear.

only someone spectacularly stupid would say that!

God I love cheese. I know Quattro is a bit partial to a french stick and a good squidgy brie.

are you talking to me? have you heard of food miles?

"There are some good British cheeses, granted."

Scum Mum, shouldn't this read, "There are some good British cheeses, grated"?

If I avoid the green beans from Kenya and the broccoli from Egypt, surely I can have a little bit of Chaumes?

IMO some of you seem to be implying that there is no point to british cheeses. This is equally as blinkerd as saying there is no point to foreign cheeses.

My earlier point was that one of the reasons why food in france and italy is so great is that people there really care about food and are a bit chauvanistic. Thus they put lots of energy in finding good local food. Thus it gets better. If foodies here ignore the yummy yargs, lancashires, and goats cheeses we have here then there is really no hope for british cheese

at witch's complete overreaction

Have I wandered in to a Monty Python Sketch?

To deprive me of any of them is simply unthinkable. French, Itallian,English, American, Dutch... I love them all.

oh NO witchandchips
i was responding to the op!

happy to hear that countess

Cornish cheese isn't an English cheese. It's........Cornish.

Are we defining British cheeses as just English cheese then? There are some lovely Scottish cheeses. Anyone tried Caboc?

..Bay City Rollers, Sheena Easton,.....

Witchandchips - IMO food miles are the only possible argument against foreign cheeses. (Though here in the SE many French cheeses are closer to home than native British cheeses.)

But where do the Bay City Rollers come into it? Celebrity cheese?

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