Restaurants adding honey to cheese!

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Baked Camembert ruined by drowning it in honey, same for mozzarella sticks.

Who started this awful trend for adding honey to perfectly good cheese?

Or am I weird for not liking it?

Cheese woth something sweet is always a winner. Figs, grapes, membrillo, apricits, apples, chutney, jam, honey. You just gotta pair it right.

Twiglets1 · Today 17:44

Oh sorry I get it now

Wellingtons, duffel coat, Deepest, Darkest Peru.

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I never serve Manchego without truffle honey. You would hate it in my house.

It's Doric, is it.

feta and honey is an amazing combination.

I think it works well with some cheese, no different to chutney really.

I've been inspired to have a sweet and savoury combination...

Parmesan and garlic twists with black garlic and rosemary cheese and chilli jam. The jam adds a sweetness with a kick, the twists a salty tang and the cheese a bit of a savoury flavour. Doesn't work all that well with mature cheddar though but it does go well with brie.

Seaside3 · Today 17:48

Cheese woth something sweet is always a winner. Figs, grapes, membrillo, apricits, apples, chutney, jam, honey. You just gotta pair it right.

Not for me, I was given white Stilton with apricots one birthday. I couldn't even pretend to like it. Same with some white cheese with cranberry, forced on me once!

And I got some olive rolls from a bakery, recently and made a sandwich with one. No other bread in the house. They'd given me sweet sultana rolls, which did NOT go well with cheese and Tourchon ham, the useless bastards. I threw the roll out for the birds and was hungry on just the filling.

My daughter liked the rolls, so it wasn't a total catastrophe.

Am I alone in finding cheese and red wine a revolting combination?

Mochudubh · Today 17:52

TaylorSwish · Today 17:22

+ + What language is this? + +

It's Doric, is it.

From Angus to Peterhead and Buckie etc.

Yes! Really thought this trend would have died out by now. I'm going to start petitioning for unsalinated caramel.

@SinnerBoy They'd given me sweet sultana rolls, which did NOT go well with cheese and Tourchon ham, the useless bastards.

When I was a child I told my gran I liked curry after my dad experimented with some Chinese curry powder, so she took me to a cafe that served it on Roker seafront. I can still remember the shock that came over me when I discovered it was full of sultanas.

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I went to an Indian restaurant a few months ago. Ordered peshwari nan. Instead of lovely nuts and fruit, they brought a plain nan with hot honey over it. Disgusting.

I believe in Cyprus where they produce Halloumi, it’s sometimes served with honey. It all depends whether you enjoy sweet with salty.

VictorianBigot · Today 18:00

When I was a child I told my gran I liked curry after my dad experimented with some Chinese curry powder, so she took me to a cafe that served it on Roker seafront. I can still remember the shock that came over me when I discovered it was full of sultanas.

Aye well, they're a bit behind the times in Sunderland, but I'm sure it's improved since 2015.

Toast with cheese and ham on!

When I first stayed in Aberdeen I was puzzled for a while by the citizens ending almost every sentence with "is it". Coming from an area where we end sentences with "like", it took a while to realise that a response was not required.

Not to derail the thread entirely but I like cheese toasties my George foreman grill mixed with sweet chilli sauce 🤤

I like it (depending on the cheese, and on the wine!), but cheese and ale is very, very nice. You can also have white wine with many cheeses.

Mochudubh · Today 18:15

When I first stayed in Aberdeen I was puzzled for a while by the citizens ending almost every sentence with "is it". Coming from an area where we end sentences with "like", it took a while to realise that a response was not required.

Are you a Geordie?

It's not cheese but has anyone ever had honey and crème fraîche? A little dollop og both on a spoon. OMG it's delicious. A little guilty pleasure

Yes. Love a cheeseboard and red wine

@SinnerBoy

Are you a Geordie?

Haha, no, rural middle of Scotland, but I do find a Geordie accent very easy to understand.

Mochudubh · Today 18:26

Haha, no, rural middle of Scotland, but I do find a Geordie accent very easy to understand.

Ah, I'm a Geordie and don't have a problem with Scottish accents in general, unless it's a Weegie, laying it on thick! I took me less than a fortnight to cotton on to Aberdonians. I'd be out with colleagues from Englandshire, chatting with a local and they'd go, "How can you understand him?"

I'd be, "Eh, how can ye not, like?" I mean people who'd been up there for years!

Spain has served honey with cheese for years.

With the right cheese it's yum