I wasn’t aware that Stilton was already “not allowed to be made in Cambridgeshire” where Stilton happens to be…?
Anyone on here - carting this world class product about? What are the current distribution arrangements within the UK at least?
…Another “Marmite” if ever there was one.
I think it was impractical to shift the Marmite factory in Burton-on-Trent because it was using the by-products from the local breweries?
If Stilton uses “certain milks, certain waters, and certain other ingredients” sourced locally, but perhaps across county lines - then I can’t understand why the current UK (via EU) Law “forbids Stilton to be made once again in Stilton” as the article linked here suggests… I do hope that the Nimbys in “Bypassed by A1” Village of Stilton, just south of Peterborough - are not trying to block an economic revival following Brexit at this point?
FFS - What next? - Blocking the nearby village of Yaxley - because of the perceived clear link to the far right huh?
Because, as said in the article, its not EU law that dictated that - it’s actually a decisions made by the UK high court (I was told we weren’t sovereign and couldnt make our own laws and decisions )
Ultimately it comes down to location. It was decided through UK courts that Stilton was made around Melton Mowbray ish so that’s where its protected to, it’s just one local-to-Stilton historian who disagrees.
I mean using that convention I’m going to suggest that I’ve found evidence to suggest that Mars bars are actually made on Mars and are a traditional product of the planet Mars hence the name and you can either disprove me or just believe me - the latter is what the “Conservative councillor” has done…
Winseer:
I wasn’t aware that Stilton was already “not allowed to be made in Cambridgeshire” where Stilton happens to be…?
Your post got me wondering, so now I’ve had chance to look it up… I found:
Wikipedia: Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which has not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, which requires that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire may be called “Stilton”. Thus cheese made in the village of Stilton, now in Cambridgeshire, cannot be sold as Stilton.
So it seems that we’ve got the EU to thank for this.
The Stilton cheese was originally sold in the coaching inns at Stilton (a staging-point on the Great North Road), but was always made in or near Melton Mowbray.
Winseer:
I wasn’t aware that Stilton was already “not allowed to be made in Cambridgeshire” where Stilton happens to be…?
Your post got me wondering, so now I’ve had chance to look it up… I found:
Wikipedia: Stilton is an English cheese, produced in two varieties: Blue, which has had Penicillium roqueforti added to generate a characteristic smell and taste, and White, which has not. Both have been granted the status of a protected designation of origin (PDO) by the European Commission, which requires that only such cheese produced in the three counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire may be called “Stilton”. Thus cheese made in the village of Stilton, now in Cambridgeshire, cannot be sold as Stilton.
So it seems that we’ve got the EU to thank for this.
Yes we have…Thank you to the EU for protecting an English tradition. Just wait till we are free of their shackles and we can eat “Stiltonshire cheese-style spread (this is not a dairy product) with added palm oil made in the YOUESSAY.”
GasGas:
Yes we have…Thank you to the EU for protecting an English tradition. Just wait till we are free of their shackles and we can eat “Stiltonshire cheese-style spread (this is not a dairy product) with added palm oil made in the YOUESSAY.”
Blimey our cheese heritage liberated from the Americans in 1973 having at first heroically failed in 1940.4th Reich indoctrination programme number 101.
GasGas:
The Stilton cheese was originally sold in the coaching inns at Stilton (a staging-point on the Great North Road), but was always made in or near Melton Mowbray.
I have some Melton Mowbray jam. It tastes of Pork Jelly
GasGas:
Yes we have…Thank you to the EU for protecting an English tradition. Just wait till we are free of their shackles and we can eat “Stiltonshire cheese-style spread (this is not a dairy product) with added palm oil made in the YOUESSAY.”
Blimey our cheese heritage liberated from the Americans in 1973 having at first heroically failed in 1940.4th Reich indoctrination programme number 101.
Oh, I’m so sorry…it was, of course, Nigel Farage’s French ancestors who taught us primitive Brits how to make cheese…
GasGas:
Yes we have…Thank you to the EU for protecting an English tradition. Just wait till we are free of their shackles and we can eat “Stiltonshire cheese-style spread (this is not a dairy product) with added palm oil made in the YOUESSAY.”
Blimey our cheese heritage liberated from the Americans in 1973 having at first heroically failed in 1940.4th Reich indoctrination programme number 101.
Oh, I’m so sorry…it was, of course, Nigel Farage’s French ancestors who taught us primitive Brits how to make cheese…
GasGas:
Yes we have…Thank you to the EU for protecting an English tradition. Just wait till we are free of their shackles and we can eat “Stiltonshire cheese-style spread (this is not a dairy product) with added palm oil made in the YOUESSAY.”
Blimey our cheese heritage liberated from the Americans in 1973 having at first heroically failed in 1940.4th Reich indoctrination programme number 101.
Oh, I’m so sorry…it was, of course, Nigel Farage’s French ancestors who taught us primitive Brits how to make cheese…
Joseph Harding isn’t a French name. As for me I can’t even stand the smell of the stuff so I’d ban it.
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So it seems that we’ve got the EU to thank for this.
As for me I can’t even stand the smell of the stuff so I’d ban it.