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Your Favourite Cheeses Over The Festive Period
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I get told off@randomshenans you might as well drum up some business
Although if you do it, it's not self promotion. I am sitting down with the team to sort out our selling direct features from producers. It was supposed to be done for Christmas but my home life messed that right up! It'll come soon though
For any cheese lovers, would love to know what is important for you to know and if we can get that in the app to help you find it useful!
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Can i get some kind of referral link where every time someone clicks on it i get paid?
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Hahaha I have this on the backlog actually
moreover you are in France - bounty of cheese in Carrefour etc. tete-de-moine, aged mimolette, beaufort would be my predilection
can't believe internet market there would be as strong as UK,
brexit regulations must be killing small UK supplier supply, but maybe you are also dealing with optmising any exports.
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Going to grab one of those cheese selection boards soon. Tesco have a few choices.
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We actually are focussing on UK market at the moment as I have many UK contacts, so it makes more sense. UK producers have fewer coops than in France, too. The internet market for anything isn't as strong in any market tbh lol
It's really messed with UK cheese producers. First they had covid knocking out hospitality (which actually counts for c.70% of cheese producers custom) and now no exports... You can export but the cost and amount is making it very difficult if not through an intermediary, which has it's complications and obviously hits your margins. Hence wanting to try and help producers get customers direct via our app.
Try and use cheese mongers if you have a local one. They get directly from cheese producers, which means you'll have a great selection of UK producers. Supermarkets are the death of small producers due to their very bullish margins that offer the producers great volume but such little profit margins, as a smaller producer it's death by a thousand papercuts.Going to grab one of those cheese selection boards soon. Tesco have a few choices.
Yeah I can't get excited by supermarket cheese. I get a basic cheddar on our weekly shop but I'm a 5min walk away from a proper cheese shop and deli so I'll just go in, have a natter and come out £40 lighter with a nice selection. It does annoy me they get so busy for Christmas though, flippin' cheese tourists 
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Yeah I can't get excited by supermarket cheese. I get a basic cheddar on our weekly shop but I'm a 5min walk away from a proper cheese shop and deli so I'll just go in, have a natter and come out £40 lighter with a nice selection. It does annoy me they get so busy for Christmas though, flippin' cheese tourists
I guess it depends. Waitrose and Booths seem to both stock a good variety of local cheese (especially Booths but you southern pansies don't get them down there
)This is where it's at though. £20 for a much better selection than a supermarket
https://picklesofpreston.co.uk/collections/small-cheese-board/products/cheese-wheel-on-foil-base
Well my girlfriend is from Yorkshire so I have experienced Booths. Isn't it for northerners that aspire to be upper-middle class?I guess it depends. Waitrose and Booths seem to both stock a good variety of local cheese (especially Booths but you southern pansies don't get them down there
For some reason I thought the OP had mentioned Tescos. Anyway, I think we're all in agreement that a local deli/indie is better if you actually want some interesting cheese. Any no, a mild cheddar with random things/fruit/chilli/etc chucked in does not count. Bleurgh!
(Sidenote, my deli stocks a truffled pecorino which is amazing. Not suited to an after-dinner cheeseboard but wonderful with salamis/ham/olives etc. An aperitif cheese I like to call it)
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Ha pretty much.
Sadly i've moved a bit further away now so have to resort to the Waitrose down the road rather than the 15 minute drive to Booths. I remember they used to have a wine sale where it was 33% off on 3 bottles, but included absolutely everything, so stuff like Louis Roederer worked out at ~£20 a bottle. Sadly they started putting restrictions on that
Sadly i've moved a bit further away now so have to resort to the Waitrose down the road rather than the 15 minute drive to Booths. I remember they used to have a wine sale where it was 33% off on 3 bottles, but included absolutely everything, so stuff like Louis Roederer worked out at ~£20 a bottle. Sadly they started putting restrictions on that
I feel the pain, waitrose cheese has gone way downhill in recent years.
Bargain that, sometimes can get it round about £30 with vivino discounts and cashback but £20 is a dream.
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Surely this would keep everyone happy over Christmas? (apart from the light one of course )
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20quid louis, I'd be buying a **** ton!! lol It's like 38EUR here at the moment, can't seem to get it anywhere cheaper. Maybe online it'd be better.
If none of you have tried Mont D'Or it's a must if you like ooozy cheeses!
If none of you have tried Mont D'Or it's a must if you like ooozy cheeses!
I guess it depends. Waitrose and Booths seem to both stock a good variety of local cheese (especially Booths but you southern pansies don't get them down there
This is where it's at though. £20 for a much better selection than a supermarket
https://picklesofpreston.co.uk/collections/small-cheese-board/products/cheese-wheel-on-foil-base
I guess I missed the boat
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Yeah, it's generally only my wife and i who eat cheese so it's a great way to get a decent range.
I did get a book through the post giving 10% off Fine cheese using code 'discomte' if anyone wants to use it. They are a bit pricey though but many of us don't have a quality cheese shop nearby.
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I know inflation has hit everyone the past year but has anyone else found cheese gone up by quite a bit? (20%+)
As for OP's question, there's 4 that are our staples. Mature cheddar, brie, blue/stilton and a spicy cheese (usually cheddar but not always).
As for OP's question, there's 4 that are our staples. Mature cheddar, brie, blue/stilton and a spicy cheese (usually cheddar but not always).