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?

I did once have some Manchego with fig jam and enjoyed it, but only a slice. My cousin lives in Spain, married to a Spanish guy and they brought us a whole wheel and an Iberian ham on a spindle. The fig jam was sharp and not that sweet.

Oh my. I'm so in the mood for that right now.

I always thought you were a Mackem! <ducks>

CHEEKY FUCKEN BASTID!!!

They've been drinking fermented mare's milk for hundreds of years in Central Asia. I'd still think it was a 'trend' if it was offered to me in Croydon McDonald's.

One of my favourite restaurants does labneh (yes, I know it is yoghurt not cheese) with honey roasted eggplant, golden raisins, walnuts, dill, mint, zaatar and lemon. Served with warm flatbread.

it is amazing.

MrsTerryPratchett · Today 19:18
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They've been drinking fermented mare's milk for hundreds of years in Central Asia.

Probably at least 10,00 years.

Kumizs is great, although first time, at 7 am, I didn't know it was alcoholic. They made me chug it and then have another.

Shubat is great, too; fermented camel's milk.

Yes, a little boozy. Picked up from the side of the road from a herder on a motorbike. <sigh> Supposedly cures every ill. Also see: sea buckthorn. Which is also a magical cure-all in Central Asia. If you have an airag/sea buckthorn cocktail you'll probably vomit live forever.

I've never tried camel. Where do they drink that?

MrsTerryPratchett · Yesterday 19:55

Also see: sea buckthorn. Which is also a magical cure-all in Central Asia. If you have an airag/sea buckthorn cocktail you'll probably vomit live forever.
I've never tried camel. Where do they drink that?

They drink it in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Kyrgyzia, too. Sea buckthorn is crammed with Vitamin C and is also popular in Eastern Europe / Russia its Ablapikha in Russian and Sandorn (sand thorn) in German. I had sandorn schnapps and jam in Germany, which were both very nice.

It depends on the cheese and on the honey. If the cheese is bog-standard and the honey is supermarket-bland then yabu. There are some speciality honeys with a flavour so complex that they can be overwhelming as a single-ingredient. Pairing a honey like that with a really good goats cheese for example is absolutely gorgeous. I had a small jar of very expensive honey in my Christmas stocking last year which I couldn't eat in a normal "slap it on toast" way but had it drizzled on cheese and it was lush.

I would expect a cheese and honey combo in a michelin-standard restaurant to be amazing. I would expect some lower tier restaurants to try to emulate this and fail.

Even if honey had been listed I'd expect condiments etc on the side. YANBU and I'd have sent it back.

Obviously nae Fae oor neck o the wids

I absolutely love honey with Italian hard cheeses e.g Pecorino or Salty cheese such as Feta. In restaurant experiences, it's always been presented separately so up to individual to add or not.

Whoever it was requires their fingernails to be threaded with bamboo. Bloody disgusting, it's everywhere! And the craze for 'hot honey' wtf?????

Cheese does not need anything on it, so restaurants/cafés/roadside vans can bugger orff with their honey on shit

I agree. It's something that's fantastic when done properly but doesn't translate using bog standard honey on any old cheese.

That sounds like my idea of absolute heaven.

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Think @SabreIsMyFave disnae understand fit yer spikkin aboot. Nae a’bdy spiks like yoose lot up e road. Bit I div like a bitty sup o honey on goats cheese.

I hate honey, but cover some feta in honey and I've died and gone to heaven!!

We went to the Cheese Barge in London (Grand Union Canal and o e of our cheeses - a goat’s cheese - came with some crunchy honeycomb stuff. It actually went with the cheese very well.

This is another bugbear of mine; incomplete descriptions on menus. I want to know what I'm ordering so that I can make an informed decision.