"pavane" > wrote in message
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| "Steve Pope" > wrote in message ...
|| pltrgyst > wrote:
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|| > We had a new (to us) Stilton from Whole Foods this week --
|| > Borough Market Stilton.
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|| That's a fakey sounding name. Borough Market is the name
|| of a farmers' market; there is a Neal's Yard Dairy right
|| next to Borough Market; and Neal's Yard carries famous Stiltons
|| such as those from Colston Basset. Also, respected dairies
|| sell their cheeses in Borough Market proper.
||
|| "Borough Market Stilton" sounds to me like a way of alluding
|| to Stiltons of desirable origin without actually paying for one.
|
| Well, almost. Neal's Yard has done immense service to the
| British cheese industries by subsidizing, perfecting and marketing
| the superb British cheeses. Colston Basset is another player
| in the game, not nearly as fine nor with the amazing financial
| encouragement that Neal's Yard offers the cheesemakers.
|
| My impression is that Neal's Yard in some way offended His
| Holiness John Mackey, the owner of Whole Foods. All of a sudden
| we were discouraged from buying Neal's Yard cheeses; without
| alternative. Then Borough Market started seeping in as the
| required cheese type (In theory we could buy what we felt best,
| but we were constantly reminded of the Financial Benefits of
| buying the Borough Market Cheeses. They are not bad, but
| not at all in Neal's Yard's class, and in no way the supporters
| and encouragers of artisanal cheeses in Britain that Neal's Yard
| is. The Financial Benefits, btw, were that we could charge about
| a buck less per pound for the Burough Market cheeses than the
| Neal's Yard, regardless of the fact that we were buying it for $5
| or more per pound less. Got the picture?
|
| pavane

Thoroughly sorry, in the first paragraph above I mentioned Colston
Basset, which is the Great Stilton producer carried by Neal's Yard.
Just wasn't thinking well. It should have read "Borough Market."
Sorry .

pavane