Do you know where the 200 missing British tourists are now?

Riverwalk

I too am surprised that such a serious breach of health rules in another country has turned into a bit of a joke thread about cheeses!

Imagine if a bunch of foreigners with a new mutant strain in their country had disappeared from their UK hotels.

Anyone travelling abroad in these Covid times should surely have learned over the past 10 months that rules can change in an instant.

Quite frankly, I'm disgusted that some people still think it's funny.

Sorry I stand corrected Wigmore IS a cheese!

I too am surprised that such a serious breach of health rules in another country has turned into a bit of a joke thread about cheeses!

Imagine if a bunch of foreigners with a new mutant strain in their country had disappeared from their UK hotels.

Anyone travelling abroad in these Covid times should surely have learned over the past 10 months that rules can change in an instant.

Lucca look at it this way. French women eat cheese, pâtisseries and chocolat, and they are nearly all slim. So you must be right, it is to do with quantities.

Ellianne

Are we talking cheeses here growstuff? Never heard of those.

This is not a joke!

I'm appalled that Wigmore thinks it's a big joke and is comparing himself with the von Trapp family in the "Sound of Music".

Not only should they be fined, but if they attempt to return to the UK, they should all be locked up together in a small room with no windows for two weeks!

Are we talking cheeses here growstuff? Never heard of those.

I don't know where they are, but it's known who some of them are. One of them is Andy Wigmore, self-confessed liar, friend of Donald Trump and Aaron Banks and Brexit backer.

He's boasting about in public and couldn't give a damn that he's put other people's lives at risk.

Sorry I realise that’s got bugger all to do with the thread??

Callistemon

I'm going to investigate ours (some was a gift)

Thank goodness for one-size-larger-trousers which I ordered after the first lockdown..
I will get back into my usual size after the Christmas food has gone.

How ?.....I’m huge at the moment and the last straw was seeing a phot of self wearing padded coat on Christmas Day.I looked like my mother......
I need an easy plan for someone who is a) not a massive veg fan (but I do eat them) b) live alone so need easy shopping

Can’t decide if I should cut out sugar or carbs or just try to do smaller portions.

We always like the cheese course before the dessert. Need to finish the meal with something sweet.

I'm going to investigate ours (some was a gift)

Thank goodness for one-size-larger-trousers which I ordered after the first lockdown..
I will get back into my usual size after the Christmas food has gone.

I lost half a stone on a holiday in China, despite the fact that we were eating huge amounts of Chinese food and had beer and wine included at every lunch and dinner. I realised later that it was the lack of dairy wot did it.

I did resolve to get a grip of my cheese habit after that, but just love it so much. Our best this Christmas has been a gooey Rollright layered with truffled marscapone. Pure bliss.

Urmstongran

Digressing slightly, but talking about British food for the UK market I was dismayed when a Welsh farmer (hoping for a deal) said 90% of his lamb went to France! I wish we could buy it instead of all the NZ stuff in the supermarket. It tastes far superior!

We buy it, usually from the farm shop if we can get there, but it is often available in our local supermarket.
The problem with online shopping is that it doesn't specify whether Welsh or NZ.

mokryna

Just the opposite for me, I never appreciated cheese until I lived in China when it wasn’t available. Then I craved for it.

This was me in japan. I eventually found some sold in a tin at an extortionate price. From memory it was an attempt at some sort of Brie and was not improved by being in a tin. I didn’t buy it again.

I used to get my mum to send me marmite.

Digressing slightly, but talking about British food for the UK market I was dismayed when a Welsh farmer (hoping for a deal) said 90% of his lamb went to France! I wish we could buy it instead of all the NZ stuff in the supermarket. It tastes far superior!

Chewbacca

Good choices Callistemon. You get more cheese for your money than if you'd bought Swiss cheese; it's full of holes!

British cheeses are some of the best.

We should have all British in our fridge but the on line shop arrived without the Cornish brie. It was replaced by something from France. Still perfectly fine. They did the same with the English sparkling wine for NYE. The replacement was also French. On line shopping is a real pita.

Like some arguments ????

Good choices Callistemon. You get more cheese for your money than if you'd bought Swiss cheese; it's full of holes!

MaizieD

God, you're easily irritated, MawBe

'Few' and 'perhaps' are not absolutes.

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Just checked my fridge and our cheeses are all British (mainly Welsh) and local butter.

God, you're easily irritated, MawBe

'Few' and 'perhaps' are not absolutes.

Bleu d'Auvergne
Brie with truffles
etc

A lot of Swiss cheese sold in UK is for export market and not well matured. Very few places sell 'the real thing' - perhaps the best being the Cheese place near Burough Market in Southwark

Oh for goodness sake there are lots of excellent cheese shops other than Borough Market, if you know where to look. And not only in London.
But you could start with La Fromagerie in Marylebone High street, Paxton Whitfield in Jermyn Street or any of the 3 branches of Neals Yard Dairy, not to mention a raft of excellent independent cheese shops throughout the country.