Big Al: 2) They work hard at making cheese - over two hundred different kinds. One day they'll get round to cheddar.

Actually, as of about 2007, the UK makes more types of cheese than France does. Not including the silly ones manufactured by mashing cranberries walnuts or apricots into cheddar, etc.

There's been an explosion in British "artisan" cheesemaking over the the last 15 years or so. I can now get over 30 varieties of small-scale artisan cheese which is made within a 20 minute drive of where I live.

Blessed be the cheesemakers!!!!