tmichael

I feel like Ben Gunn in Treasure Island. Is it possible to get decent well matured cheddar cheese in South Australia without paying $40 a kilo. There are not many things in food line that are not better here than in Uk, but cheese seems to be one of them.

Based on current experience.

tasty = tasteless?

Extra tasty = still tasteless

Other cheeses no better. Tassy brie Tassy blue etc. all bland.

Have I lost my taste buds now I am upside down or is there a problem here?

NedKelly63

Historically, half decent cheese makers were an honest bunch.

HUP

Try the cheeses marked Tangy (sp?) there a lot stronger.

Grayling

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Pollyana

Ahah, a chance to reopen The Great Cheese debate!! Look back to my posts when I arrived in November!
I make no apologies for this statement - Australian Cheese is the pits! You can get some half-decent stuff, but its expensive, The Bloke mutters dark words every time I say I NEEEEED to buy cheese. Coles has a reasonable selection - Ashgrove from Tas is OK, with peppers, or Vintage Cheddar.
The Bloke is a BiLo shopper - so I know all about "Extra Tasty" = if I'd put that in my fridge in the UK, it would have spat it back at me. Half the problem is that the Aussies have a down on unpasteurised cheese - hence no farm shop stuff, which I used to live on. Aussies buy it ready grated, they buy it in slices, but they don't notice - IT HAS NO FLAVOUR!!!!!!
Cheese is becoming a luxury for me, sad but true. I don't regret leaving the UK but I do regret Leaving Cheese, but being serious, if you are a real mouse like me, cut out the other stuff and save your cents - thats the only way you will get anything worth eating.



Must admit to tasting some better stuff in Tassie - better than the Tassie-exported. If you get the chance to go down there, pig out! King Island stuff is excellent.

Pollyana

Yep, they almost make the "mild-to-average" cheddar mark!!!

Just proves to me that Aussies are lacking taste-buds. the Bloke can eat "Tasty BiLo" and say "Yummy, that got real flavour......."
:scared:

Grayling

Well that's a 'ploughman's' and a decent pint down the pub out of the window then

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NedKelly63

There's got to be a business opportunity here somewhere!

Grayling

Mind you you can't taste in in a sandwhich anyway because of all the beetroot:scared:

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Pollyana

Certainly does! They actually sell cheese (tasteless) in little cubes, ready for nice parties, but the idea of a large hunk of REALLY tasty cheddar on a ploughmans would finish off most Aussies I know! And as Grayling says, it would be stained a lovely purple colour by the obligatory beetroot........

And just for a smile - my niece, aged 8, asked her mum "Will Aunty get a divorce and come home because she doesn't like the cheese?".........out of the mouths of babes......

tmichael

Thanks guys, really cheered me up. What I cannot understand is that you will find excellent NZ cheddar on the supermarkewt shelves in uk, why not here?

Ther has to be a business opportunity here.

NedKelly63

So these are all crap then?

http://www.australianwineandbeer.com/cheese/cheese.htm

Pollyana

I do like Ashgrove farm, but its expensive compared to "ordinary" cheese. I get your point Ned, and I've had this discussion many times on here, there is some cheese here with a bit of bite. The trouble is, I am (I WAS) a Sainsburys shopper and could get cheese with what I considered good flavour and texture at a really affordble price.
Now I am reduced to rubbery "Tasty" and to be honest would rather do without= and I usually do. Part of the problem is down to price/budget - we can't afford the cheese I would like, I'm stuck with the bottom of the range.

NedKelly63

I actually despise cheese. I think it is the work of the devil!
:scared:

Pollyana

I've had Pyengana (fabulous pub there) and Tassie Highland Cheese in Tas, and the best I had was Tasmanian Gourmet Cheeses from Hillwood - when I went there they were doing a soft Strawberry Cheese, sounds odd, but was out of this world for taste.

Qld is weird though, doesn't like importing stuff like that even inter-state. "ooh no,that be dangerous and foreign, not got a licence.....might be nasty and wicked......"


(Think I'd better go to bed before I getreally carried away!)