So you're stuck on a desert island. The only thing you are allowed an unlimited supply of is crackers and three kinds of cheese. What would you choose?
Mine would be:
1. Cornish Cruncher Diablo
2. Cropwell Bishop Stilton
3. Mull of Kintyre Cheddar
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A good strong cheddar
Stilton
Gjetost
Very strong chedder
applewood
stilton
There's a case of something (your choice) but only one case.
Rosary goat cheese
Ossau-Iraty
Manchego
A good mature Cheddar
single Gloucester
and some buffalo Mozzarella.
Smoked (the sausage looking one)
cranberry cheese
A nice mature chedder
Most of you are doing it wrong. If you're only allowed three cheeses, you're wasting a vote by picking ones that are very similar. Mine are:
cheddar or cantal
a nice goat's cheese
and something soft or semi-soft like chaource.
PS: am I allowed oatcakes?
Perfect. With some Prosecco or Champagne. And yes, lit, oatcakes. Nairn's rough oatcakes.
If we were allowed olives I'd have some gordal olives with olive oil and a little bit of ground sea salt. Since we're on a desert island there's probably plenty of salt available.
If we were on a dessert island, it would have to be sticky toffee pudding.
thing is, ossau-iraty is not actually that different from manchego. Maybe slightly sweeter. Seems like a wasted choice, though I agree they are both delicious.
different textures. And Ossau-iraty slightly smokey flavour. Could substitute a strong mature pecorino for the manchego, also good.
I'm going to go and eat some cheese now.
Where do you buy these delicious sounding cheeses?
somerdale Black mountain
stilton
mature chedddar
How has Jarlsberg not got a mention? The best cheese full stop.
Cinders - ossau-iraty and chaource are available in Sainsbury's. Cantal harder to find in UK.
OK, my genuine choices before I saw literatin's:
Montgomery Cheddar
Colston Bassett Stilton
Chaource
Basically, it has to be a Cheddar, a blue and a soft cheese, and Chaource is just bloody brilliant. Really creamy but a more complex and interesting flavour than Brie or Camembert and all that malarkey.
I'll take a chance on the booze running out. Montgomery Cheddar goes with anything, including wild boar. Please say there are boars on the island? Or warthogs or something?
Probably.
I'm not that bothered about blue, which is why I'll have a goat's cheese in that gap in my cheeseboard. There is a restaurant in Paris which is famous for its cheeseboard (at the end of its bargainous 4-course menu specialising in game when in season) which has cantal, peppered goat's cheese, normal goat's cheese, brie, blue and something else I've forgotten. YUM.
Phil...I was just thinking i hped thee was loads of anilmals on the island I could eat
anything heavy, strong, blue and offensively smelly.
Well you are on a desert island - no need to worry about the neighbours
offensively smelly... bugger, I forgot munster! Can I have four?
No
(It's not supposed to be easy)
Dont worry Phil ......... I got it ........ a bit of a stretch, but I'll give you that one .....
Okay, in that case, since I suspect I haven't got any cumin seeds, I will stick with my original choices. Do I have wine?
Ossau-Iraty
Shropshire blue, or Danish blue
A good, ripe Camembert
Fine-milled oatcakes
Cheers Mr A!
I'm thinking about this island now - what does warthog milk taste like? Can you make cheese from it?
Has the edit function disappeared??
Can I have some grapes with my cheese, please?
Can I have pickles please??