"Steve Pope" > wrote in message ...
| pavane > wrote:
|
| >"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
|
| [ Borough Market Stilton ]
|
| >| 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?
|
| Well, I fail to see any information in what you are saying that
| is contradictory to what I wrote above. It is still a fake
| name attempting to leverage of other producers' reputations.

Right. I was not disagreeing, just providing a window into
Whole Foods, which at one time was a major retailer of Neal's
Yard in the US.

pavane