Cheese Recommendations

[Jonboy]

That's a cheese too far for me Chris!

Regards

I do believe thats a cheese to far for me as well

[Alex_UK]

You know what? Um, NO! I'll try most things once, but maggoty cheese - thanks, but no thanks!

[The Grand Wazoo]

I've been scoffin' something perhaps a little more conventional than the above -mentioned 'danger cheese' tonight:

Applebey's Chesire
Unpasteurised & matured in cloth, just like all hard cheese used to be made. It tastes................fanbluddytastic!

[Barry]

I've been scoffin' something perhaps a little more conventional than the above -mentioned 'danger cheese' tonight:

Applebey's Chesire
Unpasteurised & matured in cloth, just like all hard cheese used to be made. It tastes................fanbluddytastic!

Think my local Tesco stocks that. If they do I'll give it a try.

Regards

[goraman]

Government cheese and Thunderbird! .60cents a bottle!
I hope some of you in the UK can get the joke.
Thunderbird was for years the drink of Winos,Bums and Vagabons and in the 1980's ,
through a government grant to help dairy farmers Reagan distributed huge quantitys of free government cheese to the poor and elderly by the case! Everyone in the U.S.A. was eating this horable pastureized cheese because there was 20 pounds per case!and it was free,you would see Winos eatting huge blocks of cheese and drinking Thunderbird wine. Poor old basterds couldn't of lived to long if the wine didn't killem the chease shure as hell must have.

http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html
please read the song in the link.


http://www.columbiatribune.com/photos/2009/aug/10/5048/



Thunderbird has not been made for some time but every high school kid in my day bought at least one bottle because it was so high in alcohol and dirt cheap.
I was in a liquor store that had been sold and they where cleaning out the old storage shed in the back and found a case of 1985 Thunderbird!
I bought 4 bottles on the spot and should have bought the whole case!
This was in the year 2005,most likely the last bottles of this legendary terrable stuff to have ever been made.
I got them because a good freind of mine and a former U2 pilot had invited me to a cheese and wine tasteing partey where people bring several bottles to a case of there favorite wine and some cheese and taste them and trade bottles and swap bull shit storys.
Liveing right next to Napavalley and Sonoma valley people got to the wine country and buy cases of Califorina wine here at great prices so people here trade bottles alot.

I brought several good bottles and the 4 bottles of thunderbird and a horrable block of Velveta processed cheese and put it on a paper plate marked government cheese!

I couldn't belive it,all the rage was sampleing the Thunderbird and laughing about how bad it was and the guy's there dareing each other to finnish another glass! The 4 bottles where gone with in the first hour! and people where comming to me wanting to buy some for there wine colection to show an old bottle of TB.
I went back to the liquor store and the new owner had thrown the rest out thinking I was just crazy and noone would buy that old crap.

It turned out to be the talk of every wine tasteing after that till Rusty my freind moved to L.A.

My favorite cheese is long horn extra sharp chedder, or a very dry swiss.I seem to be eatting it with Austrailan Siraz a dry red.

HEY,LOOKS LIKE IT'S BACK INTO PRODUCTION AGEIN!! AMERICA REALLY IS IN THE MIDST OF A DEPRESSION...

[The Grand Wazoo]

Thunderbird was available here too. There were two types blue label & red, I think.
I seem to remember it being a fortified wine, cheap and rough as hell.

It lives on for me, in the song 'Sweet Gene Vincent' by Ian Dury:

Skinny white sailor, the chances were slender
The beauties were brief
Shall I mourn your decline with some Thunderbird wine
and a black hankerchief?
I miss your sad Virginia whisper
I miss the voice that called my heart

[Stratmangler]

YYYYUUUCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris

[Jeremy Marchant]

Epoisse.

Very strong, very expensive, in same part of cheesedom as is occupied by Camembert.
In Waitrose, both prepacked (£7.50 per 250g) and on the cheese counter.
No need to put it in your shopping basket, it will crawl out of the store of its own accord.

[goraman]

YYYYUUUCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris

Looks like chum!
Gross!

[Alex_UK]

Thunderbird - Gosh, that takes me back, to the offie in Norwich circa 1986... 'orrible stuff, but did the trick! Soon surpassed by the far more favourable half a bottle of vodka mixed with 3 litres of White Lightning "cider" - don't think you got that in the US though!