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Thread #166317   Message #4111425
Posted By: Steve Shaw
26-Jun-21 - 05:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Cheesey reminiscences!
Subject: RE: BS: Cheesey reminiscences!
Indeed. It's made at the Davidstow creamery near Camelford, about 20 minutes from us, in what is one of the ugliest set of buildings in Cornwall, unfortunately prominent on the skyline from all around. A few years ago Dairy Crest, which then owned the creamery, ran an ad that showed waves crashing on a beautiful stretch of coast at Bedruthan Steps near Newquay, implying that the wild Atlantic somehow influenced their cheeses. In fact, Bedruthan Steps is many miles from Davidstow, and the creamery is several miles inland, next to a long-disused and derelict airfield that is home to illegal raves and dads teaching their offspring to drive. A few years ago, Which? magazine recommended Cathedral City extra mature, and I must admit that it doesn't taste too bad, but these days I buy Barber's Westcountry Farmhouse cheddar for my cheese on toast, available at a very reasonable price from Sainsbury's and Morrison's, and Wookey Hole for our Wednesday cheesy night in. The Davidstow creamery obtains its milk from hundreds of farms in Devon and Cornwall (and elsewhere for all I know) and its articulated tankers are notorious for clogging our roads. All those M&S cheeses that say Davidstow on the label, and some that don't, including some calling themselves Cornish this, that or the other, come from there.