I think Tebay and Gloucester Services are run by the same setup. I never fail to stop at Gloucester but Tebay isn't on my way to anywhere. Keep meaning to take my mum for a run up there through t'Trough then back through t'Dales and over t'Nick but she isn't travelling well these days. The cheese counter is amazing but uncheap. Some of the more speciality local cheeses, once cut, don't keep well on the counter if the turnover's low, so caveat emptor. Buy one of their three quid ordinary pork pies and you'll never buy a M&S Melton Mowbray again! The local pork on the meat counter is some of the best. I've got two lumps of pork belly (in my freezer, you witty bugger) and a boned rolled shoulder, both of which will yield enough crackling to feed the Lancashire Fusiliers. They sell a piece of pork fillet that's been stuffed with Cumberland sausage meat and wrapped with streaky that you just cook in the oven for an hour. A piece of genius it is, and not dear either. Feeds two of you twice, once hot, once cold, for a tenner.

Eyup, I'm hijacking my own thread...