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[pederito1]

Its Stilton for me, very ripe.

[meriad]

ewwww Ped. I love cheese, I really do - but blue cheese is the one that I just cannot get my head around; and I've tried more than once

A mild cambenzola (I think it is - the soft creamy one) I could probably eat, but Stilton (where is that vomit smilie)

[Kaz]

Me too, Mick loves Stilton but yuk!!!

[TheOstrich]

I think there is Stilton and Stilton, if you know what I mean. A proper white "trade-marked" Stilton - made with milk from cows in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire - is tasty but mild when compared to things like Shropshire Blue or Dorset Blue Vinney which come across to me as a lot stronger and saltier.

We don't eat a lot of Stilton here, out of choice I'd tend to opt for a Camembert or Brie, but we do like it as a change.

There is a story I heard over 20 years ago now about Dorset Blue Vinney which may or may not be apocryphal. When we lived down that way, I had one or two farmer clients in the Cerne Abbas valley area, where a particularly potent brand of Blue Vinney was made, shall we say, ahem, on the side - a bit like cider (there's the cider you buy in bottles, the cider you buy in jugs, and the cider that gets handed over the farm gate late at night when the Customs and Excise aren't looking .... )

I was told you might wander into a particular shop in a certain village, and whilst staring at the postcards, or the vegetable stall, you might casually remark, to no-one in particular, that you might just fancy a bit of proper Vinney. You then went home and left some cash under your doormat. A few days later, if you were lucky, a parcel might have arrived overnight ...

[Workingman]

Cheese rustling.... in Zummerzet!!! What is the World coming to?

[meriad]

[Kaz]

They used to have cheese lock-ins at a pub near Lydney, in the Forest of Dean.................Long story

Ossie I think that may well be a true story, the West Country does like to operate that way

[cruiser2]

My favorite is Lancashire Cheese. We can still get it from a stall which cuts it from a big piece. Will not buy cheese which is pre-wrapped in plastic