To think cheese and biscuits is more of a lunch thing rather than dessert !

[Lardlizard]

Who wants to eat a Sunday roast then eat cheese and biscuits

Give me something choclately Any day !!

A legitimate course of a multi-course meal with a geographical dispute concerning whether cheese should be before (French) or after (British) pudding.

This. But it has to be excellent, excellent cheese, at the right stage for eating, and properly stored.

@MagMell

A legitimate course of a multi-course meal with a geographical dispute concerning whether cheese should be before (French) or after (British) pudding.

This. But it has to be excellent, excellent cheese, at the right stage for eating, and properly stored.

They have to be proper biscuits too. Oatcakes, bath olivers, digestives or cornish wafers are acceptable. Cream crackers are not.

I can’t imagine having cheese and biscuits for lunch or a random snack. The only time we have it is when we have guests over and do it after dinner, either dinner, dessert, cheese and biscuits, or just dinner then some time later cheese and biscuits, a proper cheese board with a good variety of biscuits. It’s just not something we randomly eat for lunch or of an evening.

I love both but after a roast? at someone's house? maybe just excusable at a restaurant but at a house I would literally upend the table.

@stovetopespresso

I love both but after a roast? at someone's house? maybe just excusable at a restaurant but at a house I would literally upend the table.

why is it so bad at someone’s house? If we have people for dinner we usually do a big cheese board. Usually for later on in the evening to soak up the wine (after dinner and dessert).

@serendippity I thought cream crackers were posh

Don’t tend to have it after a roast though as we don’t often have a roast.

YABU to make people choose one or the other as a course. It should be cheese and biscuits AND a pudding. I don't really care which comes first (have lived in both France and UK). But I don't think it's a lunch by itself. Maybe a late supper after the main meal has been something like a Sunday roast. But it's a course of meal or a snack, not a main meal.

Its literally the only dessert my DH will consider! and its not even a damn dessert!

@Kaktus its the roast thing using cheese as a chocolate avoidance technique I think

If we can't be bothered to cook of an evening we have what we call a cheesy supper which is basically various cheeses, biscuits, olives, tomatoes, hummus etc.

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Well, obviously not, because dessert is fruit, innit?
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Agreed. I think cheese and biscuits can be nice hours after a big lunch (e.g. on Christmas day) when you're hungry again but don't want a full meal. I never fancy it straight away afterwards for desert though.

@everyonesmama

Its literally the only dessert my DH will consider! and its not even a damn dessert!

grounds for divorce surely

Me too. Would pick cheese and biscuits any time over a sweet course

At Christmas we have:

• Savoury nibbles about 10/11 (no breakfast)
• Roast at about 2
• Dessert about 4/5
• Cheese, crackers & chutney maybe around 7

We basically just eat all day! My mum is definitely a feeder so whenever I go round for a meal she will try and plough about 4 courses into me and one of them is always cheese.

I'd rather cheese and biscuits than the roast to be honest.

@jay55

I'd rather cheese and biscuits than the roast to be honest.

Same.

@SerenDippitty

If we can't be bothered to cook of an evening we have what we call a cheesy supper which is basically various cheeses, biscuits, olives, tomatoes, hummus etc.

We do that and call it an indoor picnic.

Give me a pudding any day! Cheese and biscuits is a bedtime snack or maybe a light lunch. Definitely not a pudding. It's almost as wrong as two course menus and having to decide whether or not you want a starter or a dessert without seeing the dessert choices first

Cheese goes better with red wine and port so cheese and biscuits if you’re planning to make an afternoon of it. Perhaps not straight after a full roast, though.

Much prefer cheese and biscuits over a sweet pudding.

DoubleDolphin Yes this is what I think of A Dessert followed by C and B! not instead of!(can eat both quite easily BTW!)

this becone a discussion of personal preference rather than what is right or wrong as decreed by style and hospitality and tradition

I like cheese and biscuits after a meal, ideally AND dessert.