Do you wish supermarkets would fuck off?

[UnderOpenSky]

you should move to the north-west - the cheese selection in booths it to die for...

http://www.booths-supermarkets.co.uk/product/Cheese

It's the only supermarket I've ever shopped in where the own brands are more expensive the others. The stuff is lush, but when I lived in Ulverston where it's the main supermarket I had to drive to Barrow once a month to stock up from stuff in Asda.

The only cheap stuff was the beer which was lush and they always have a good selection for a £1 to get you to shop there.

 

[Kanda]

and m&s is shite too, kanda...

Yup, but it has a wider selection of cheeses than the rest. (Brixton market fails me on cheese)

 

[killer b]

The only cheap stuff was the beer which was lush and they always have a good selection for a £1 to get you to shop there.

they've got the tail end of a cider festival on there at the moment - loads of lush single variety ciders for a pound a bottle.

 

[Cid]

Waitrose is ok, 'specially the one under John Lewis in Oxford St.

 

[killer b]

i always find fortnum & masons to be superb for cheese, too. fuck shopping with the proles.

 

[1927]

The argument in the OP is flawed imho. If I go to my local supermarket I am offered a far bigger range than I could ever expect in the best local delis and I would go as far as to say that Waitrose has a broader range than the cheese stall in Cardiff market.

So as far as cheese is concerend, long live the supermarket, bit for other reasons they are of course the devil's work.

Do not tho, ever be tempted to buy cheese in Asda. I really hate the place whgich is a bummer cos its across the road from my office, all their cheeses and cut meats now come vacu packed, now tasting before you buy, no buying as much as you need, its a packet or fuck all, and when you open it its shit tasteless rubber stuff!!

 

[mentalchik]

Those were the days, eh.

These were the ready cooked ones last thing on a friday night...........



oh oh the urban food snob police out in force aye !

 

[mentalchik]

Yes but you're probably a pleb who wouldn't know a tomme de chevre from a Bleu d'Auvergne...

Yes i probably am tbh................and i have no idea what they are so

 

[Cid]

i always find fortnum & masons to be superb for cheese, too. fuck shopping with the proles.

Fortum and Masons is just a tourist trap, the true gentleman wouldn't be seen dead in there. A sad fall from glory, but there it is.

Yes i probably am tbh................and i have no idea what they are so

Tomme de Chevre is a really nice goats cheese from Savoie, semi-soft and not too strong. Bleu d'Auvergne is a blue cheese (from Auvergne of course), slightly less strong than some other blues with a creamier texture.

 

[killer b]

Fortum and Masons is just a tourist trap, the true gentleman wouldn't be seen dead in there. A sad fall from glory, but there it is.

what happened? i used to like it in there.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I was looking in the Library and picked up AA Gill's Table Talk, 'cause I remember reading an article about him and he seems an interesting chap, as well as one that I can relate to. Anyway, next to it was a book about British cheeses, and I can probably say I've heard of about 5. Everywhere except posh villages it's the same old cheese on offer, boring cheddar, shitty red leicester and maybe a bit of wensleydale if you're lucky. Whose fault is this, is it the general British public for being pussies and only consuming monotonous shit, or is it the supermarkets fault, have they done this on purpose because it's logistially easier and cheaper to source tonnes of one bog-standard product rather than sourcing a variety of products from different sources? Or is it a mixture of both.

We don't even have the red leicester or the wensleydale. I've never heard of those cheeses.

Our standard supermarket fare would be a lot of cheddar, mozzarella, and parmesan. The 'exotic' cheese would be gouda, stilton or blue, and feta.

 

[DotCommunist]

We don't even have the red leicester or the wensleydale. I've never heard of those cheeses.

Our standard supermarket fare would be a lot of cheddar, mozzarella, and parmesan. The 'exotic' cheese would be gouda, stilton or blue, and feta.

Don't you get them blocks of processed yanqui shit-cheese?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Don't you get them blocks of processed yanqui shit-cheese?

No, we have our own cheese.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Don't you get them blocks of processed yanqui shit-cheese?

They have spray-on cheese from a can.

 

[harpo]

TBF, we lost a lot of our regional cheeses during the wartime hard cheese policy, when they took all the milk to make a generic protien.

Plenty of producers trying to get them going again, but supermarkets Could Do Better. Booths are very good if you're lucky enough to live by one but you'd think only France had regional cheeses if you go in Waitrose etc. Even Neil's Yard and the posey Borough market shops only sell a limited number of decent British cheeses but if you travel the UK, you can find regional gems in small delis and markets etc. There was a temporary stall on Spitalfields that had a fantastic range but I haven't seen that in a year or so.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

They have spray-on cheese from a can.

It doesn't actually spray. It comes out the way Cool Whip comes out of the can.

 

[DotCommunist]

They have spray-on cheese from a can.

Deeply wrong

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Deeply wrong

It can be handy, when you're drunk, for example. You can dispense with the cracker, and just squeeze the cheese directly into your mouth.

 

[miss minnie]

delicatessens aren't exactly a new idea*. they tend to sell cheese.

i suppose its easier to get everything from one shop. bit boring though.

* no they weren't invented by yuppies, traditionally they sold peasant food. just foreign is all. in poland they have delicatessens that sell marmite and warm baps.

 

[sleaterkinney]

It doesn't actually spray. It comes out the way Cool Whip comes out of the can.

I had to look up what Cool Whip is on the net, why don't you just get normal cream?.

 

[citygirl]

It doesn't actually spray. It comes out the way Cool Whip comes out of the can.

ahh.. y'mean squirty cheese?

 

[electrogirl]

My big asda does my favourite cheese and my local deli doesn't. I'm being forced into the hands of capitalism.

They don't know what falafel is in Asda though so it's swings and roundabouts.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I had to look up what Cool Whip is on the net, why don't you just get normal cream?.

Personally, we get normal cream, and whip it up. But there seems to be a market for Cool Whip, because I'm still seeing it on the shelves of the dairy aisle.

Also, I suppose that if you're lactose intolerant, you might prefer Cool Whip, because I don't think there are any actual dairy products in there.

 

[strung out]

any place that sells manchego is ok with me

 

[Chz]

Morrisons is shite for cheese. They have good bread, and good meat (and decent fish) though. Easily the best bakery of the major chains, though I'm aware that's damning with faint praise.

Out of the biggies, Tesco (their own brand stuff can be quite good!) and Waitrose have the best cheese. M&S is kind of pathetic on it, and Sainsburys has to have some of the worst.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Our local Sainsbury's has a really good deli counter with loads of different cheeses

 

[_angel_]

No. No they're not. I used to do almost all my shopping there and I can assure you their selection is terrible.

They're okay for cheese where I live.

Pretty shit for other things, but good for wine, cheese and breads.

 

[Meltingpot]

I can't think of cheese shops without thinking of Monty Python; "What a senseless waste of human life."

Seriously, I think there's a tendency nowadays to romanticise the local shop. They were very variable in quality and depended a lot on who ran the place. I've known some excellent ones, and others who would give you the overripe tomatoes from the bottom of the tray if they thought they could get away with it.