No Wensleydale, Gromit?

[caddyman]

Damn you, Wallace and Gromit, damn you.¹

I have just spent £26 on cheese. A nice big chunk of sentient Stilton, a decent size piece of Berkswell and a nicely mature single Cooleeney. But there is no Stinking Bishop, it has suddenly become harder to buy than a pork pie in Mecca. Until three months ago, no-one had ever heard of the bloody stuff; other than me and a bunch of Catholic priests who would buy it as a joke present for the bishop (the cheese emporium lies about a half way between the cathedral and the bishop’s residence), practically no-one knew of its existence. The rather sad looking cheese vendor (a man in a bowler hat and a butcher’s smock) informed me that he had ordered ten and had none delivered.

Such is the power of plasticine film stars.

I have bought instead, a cheese by the name of Vacherin Mont d’Or which I am informed is both runny and smelly². So runny in fact, that it is served with a spoon.

I am led to understand that some people wrap it in tin foil, douse in wine and bake it for 10 minutes. This apparently makes it into something like a fondue but with none of the usual hassles.

My furry cardio-vascular system and I are intrigued by the prospect.


¹But not really, of course.
²I am hopefully confident that it is actually a cheese with that description.

Comments

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

The board of the Royal Turoneirosophical Society salute you, Admiral. We look forward to a seminar on your forthcoming expedition into five-dimensional space, with slides, cultures and colour diagrams.

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Vacherin is yummy.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

An archaeologist's curse on you. Now I want cheese.

I am not at all sure that is a good idea...

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

mmmm cheese.

Quick anecdote:
There was a really nice goat's cheese we used to get in France - 'Fromage au Cindres'.
Unfortunately for several years we'd misheard the name and kept asking for 'Ashtray Cheese' instead.

Luckily they never gave us what we asked for.

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

" harder to buy than a pork pie in Mecca" LOL It's harder still to buy a halal pork pie in Mecca!

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Berkswell - sounds interesting (and local). What's it like?

[romney.livejournal.com]

I think I might have a small tub of Quince Cheese in the Fridge...

...well it's the right colour to be Q.C. so I'll bring it along. Whatever it is.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

Neal Street, or somewhere else?

I was in the dairy one month ago; they still had Stinking Bishop then, but W&G had only just opened. If you are there, you need to try the Montogery Chedder.

Vacherin is interesting - Pasturerised or not?

[pipsytip.livejournal.com]

we love colleney and stinking bishop its like hens teeth round here too!