Cheese appropriation.

[Cycleops]

Have to say I was shocked when my wife brought this back from the local supermarket.
It's just Cheddar Mr Frenchie.
Payback for Brexit?

And they also stole 'sandwich'.

 

[Alex321]

Have to say I was shocked when my wife brought this back from the local supermarket.
It's just Cheddar Mr Frenchie.

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And they also stole 'sandwich'.

That's not "proper" cheddar

 

[PeteXXX]

I thought the French eschewed English. They'll be on strike soon, no doubt!

 

[raleighnut]

I thought the French eschewed English. They'll be on strike soon, no doubt!

Or up a Cul-de Sac.

 

[T4tomo]

the biggest shock here is that Cyclops' Mrs buys pre sliced cheese. I'd have sent her back to buy some proper cheese.

 

[Time Waster]

That's a result of the war effort in WWII apparently. To feed the nation the food department mandarins wanted a cheap, mass produced cheese. They looked around and chose cheddar as the starting point but made it industrial and exported or around the empire. The result was a synthetic cheese which retained the name cheddar but wasn't.

Fast forward the name cheddar has been so degraded it failed to get the regional type protection when part of the EU. The cheese that went for it was all made in the area of origin of the cheddar but because cheap Canadian and New Zealand synthetic cheddar plus the cheap UK supermarket versions the real type got lost among the rubbish.

Now the French are passing off their inferior and sliced cheese as cheddar with a frenchification. This is not brexit this is world war two apparatchniks deciding to call something what it certainly wasn't for war efficiency. Their motives might have been good but they messed up the cheddar cheese name.

Rant over!

Except we should burn any French truck bringing that rubbish into the UK. Give them a taste of their own medicine!

 

[newts]

That yellow rubbery stuff doesn't appear to have been made by the cheddaring process, those Bretons are taking the la pisse.

 

[craigwend]

View: https://youtu.be/B7eIXre6KC8

 

[oldwheels]

That's not "proper" cheddar

No idea if you can get proper cheddar but nowadays it is just a type of cheese. Our local cheese producer made something called cheddar but nowhere near Cheddar.
Despite that it is very nice cheese and much in demand.
Presumably the name is not protected as some regional specialities are.

 

[Drago]

About as firm as the Maginot Line.

 

[slowmotion]

At least it's vaguely cheese. Mrs Slowmotion went to the supermarket without her glasses and came back with something that left a nasty lingering aftertaste. Closer inspection of the packet revealed it was "vegetarian Chedder" made from coconut milk. I'm pretty sure that should be brought to the attention of Trading Standards.

Avoid at all costs. It's vile.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It has to be said, our Cheddar comes from Ireland now.

 

[Reynard]

No, cheddar is not a protected cheese, as it refers to the method used to make the cheese (look up cheddaring) by reserving some of the previous day's curds rather than the actual location.

In Belgium, "un sandwich" is a type of soft oblong bread roll that's very similar in taste and texture to Jewish Challah.

 

[raleighnut]

the biggest shock here is that Cyclops' Mrs buys pre sliced cheese. I'd have sent her back to buy some proper cheese.

It's OK on a burger but having said that Aldi sell a sliced Cheddar with black pepper in it that is lush on burgers.

 

[Cycleops]

Sliced cheese is really only for lazy people with too much money but in this case it was a bargain reduction to £2.