Do you like cheese? Are you patriotic?

[PrettyCandles]

"I don't see the point in foreign cheeses."

AIBU to think that this is an utterly ridiculous and blinkered statement?

[bookwormtailmum]

Who said it? .

Absurd and childishm IMHO. But I love cheese

[Scootergrrrl]

Yes, why have Brie or Camenbert or Parmesan when you can have a lovely lump of shrink-wrapped Cheddar from the Spar?

[PestoMonster]

No you are not being unreasonable, you are being reasonable to think that that is an utterly ridiculous & blinkered statement. The statement, itself, is not rational.

[newlifenewname]

Maybe they realy don't see the point but yes, of course ridiculous and blinkered.

I could not live without Comte, Brie, Camambert, Parmesan, Mascarpone...

[newlifenewname]

Camembert- oops! I used to live 5 mins from Camembert

[PestoMonster]

I too, feel that life would be very dull without the likes of my favourites, Dolcelatte & Roquefort.
Yum!

[hatwoman]

was this said by a Frnech person by any chance?

[Carmenere]

That is just the type of insular and ignorant thing that French and Italians say(but at least they have a reason to)

[compo]

yanbu

what a stupid thing for someone to say!

[hatwoman]

or even a French one...

[hatwoman]

they blummen well don;t.

[Slubberdegullion]

Does cheese have a point at all? I mean does it have purpose? Does it have a destiny beyond being rancid milk?

Profound question I would say.

Or maybe she has a strange neurological dysfunction (along the lines of the man who mistook his wife for a hat) and simply cannot see the end point of a foreign cheese, and is therefore afraid of committing one of the ultimate dinner party faux pas of cutting off the point of the cheese.

I tell you, MN really makes me think sometimes.

[ScummyMummy]

There are some good British cheeses, granted. But not to see the point of French and Italian cheeses is truly tragic, imo.

[Bink]

I love your title.
I also adore the concept of cheese as an index of insularity.
And that there is somehow a fundamental philosophical rationale to cheese.
Everything, really. Does this person frequently produce such lovely distillations of idiocy? And if so, more please!

[MaryAnnSingleton]

what would pasta be without parmesan, pizza without mozarella, what about lovely grilled halloumi, salty feta and how I love a bit of Cantal - yum!

[bookwormtailmum]

"Does it have a destiny beyond being rancid milk?"

It's destiny is to be eaten by me. referably with a nice glass (or six) of wine and some crackers, grapes etc. .

[PestoMonster]

A nice smoked cheese also goes down well I think....

[MaryAnnSingleton]

mmm,yes- had some the other day and it was delicious.

[UpsetWifeandOtherWoman]

What about cornish yarg, or davidstow cheddar, or wyke farm's cheddars? They are all British, but definitely not shrink-wrapped and found in the chillers in Spar shops nationwide! I love foods from all different cultures, but I also grew up on a farm and have always lived rurally and love supporting British food.

[WigWamBam]

There are too many words in the sentence.

"I don't see the point in cheeses".

There. That's better

[JoyS]

Califrau, the US has restrictions on what can be imported and I think all cheese made in the US has to be made with pasteurized milk. Works for cheddar, does not work for brie.

[Carmenere]

Yes the importation laws are very strict in the US regarding cheese. If I remember correctly though Dean and Deluca in NYC have a counter of artisan cheeses and some of them are made with raw milk but are hard cheeses so will have been aged more that 18/24 months so that any bacteria/listeria/whatever will be long gone. I think it is only the luscious soft raw milk cheeses like camembert and blue cheeses that have the problem.

[morningglory]

DH is French. He prefers English Cheese to French cheeses (he died and went to heaven when he discovered Neals Yard).

Although OP is a bit silly, I do think English cheeses are underrated. I think that Stichelton, Stilton (Colston Bassett), Stinking Bishop, Linconshire Poacher, Cheddar (a really good one like Montgomery), or Ragstone are in the premier league, worldwide.

In reference to French cheeses, the quality of bog standard French cheese is not great, and getting worse.