Buying cheese on Christmas Eve

[DulwichFox]

The Cheese Block... 200 Cheeses except any Cheese you happen to ask for..

Foxy

[titch juicy]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Little baby cheeses Titch?

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> titch juicy Wrote:

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> > One of my christmas traditions is queuing at

> Neals

> > Yard on Christmas Eve out of choice. It's fun.

> > There's a lovely chatty atmosphere in the queue

> > and often staff wander up and down with cheese

> to

> > try.

Haha! Indeed :)

[Bob Buzzard]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> The Cheese Block... 200 Cheeses except any Cheese

> you happen to ask for..

>

>

>

> Foxy

I don't brielieve it ...

[Dog duck]

How did the grumpy guy in The Cheese Block paint his wife?

He Double Gloucester.

[DulwichFox]

Bob Buzzard Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > The Cheese Block... 200 Cheeses except any

> Cheese

> > you happen to ask for..

> >

> >

> >

> > Foxy

>

> I don't brielieve it ...

Cambozola.. Don't sell it..

Foxy

[ianr]

Pugwash wrote:

> last time I went to the Cheese Block (in Christmas week) for some more unusual cheeses

> for my son in law, shop was so crowded I could not see most of the displays, people

> pushing and shoving to see the groceries on shelves, only 2 or 3 servers

Best avoid crowds. I don't know how this TV documentary panned out, but it doesn't sound good.

[DovertheRoad]

One of my favourite ever observational posts from Bob Buzzard. Worth wheeling out again as we approach Christmas in ED.

[Seabag]

I predict a Cheese war this year, with ?Big Man Mons? and ?da block? going at it with those curved-end two-pronged knives.

[JohnL]

Maybe pay someone to sit in the queue for you. That would be very elitist.

[dbboy]

Other stores also sell cheese, Tesco Lewisham have a large cheese counter for fresh cut cheese.

[JohnL]

doesn't cheese improve with age :)

[Seabag]

I'm starting to miss Louisa, where is she on such matters?

[dbboy]

yeah, Mold

[edcam]

Pre-order from Mons. Shopping for anything on Christmas Eve is almost as bad an idea as Brexit.

[dbboy]

Expected shops to be shut on xmas eve as it falls on a Sunday.

[Seabag]

dbboy Wrote:

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> Expected shops to be shut on xmas eve as it falls

> on a Sunday.

Dont be silly

[Abe_froeman]

You could still queue up outside the shop, for the sake of tradition, even if they do take that Sunday off.

[DovertheRoad]

edcam Wrote:

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> Pre-order from Mons.

Hipster.

[Bob Buzzard]

That new cheese shop is scary - huge wheels of cheese and those big chopping blocks. Has anyone been in yet? If so do though they have Shropshire Blue?

[edcam]

Yes. Their cheese is amazing and the service is great. Don't know re Shropshire Blue, soz.

Bob Buzzard Wrote:

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> That new cheese shop is scary - huge wheels of

> cheese and those big chopping blocks. Has anyone

> been in yet? If so do though they have Shropshire

> Blue?

[fishbiscuits]

I know the question - and the whole thread (actually maybe even the whole forum) - is a piss take. But, it is a French cheese shop, with only a couple of exceptions, (i.e Parmesan and Cheddar).

So no Shropshire Blue. But they might have another cows milk blue cheese.

If you want British cheeses, you should go to the Cheese Block.

[Bob Buzzard]

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> I know the question - and the whole thread

> (actually maybe even the whole forum) - is a piss

> take. But, it is a French cheese shop, with only a

> couple of exceptions, (i.e Parmesan and Cheddar).

>

>

> So no Shropshire Blue. But they might have another

> cows milk blue cheese.

>

> If you want British cheeses, you should go to the

> Cheese Block.

Are you sure it's just French cheese? The shop had a whiff of German efficiency last time I walked past.

[TheCat]

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> I know the question - and the whole thread

> (actually maybe even the whole forum) - is a piss

> take. But, it is a French cheese shop, with only a

> couple of exceptions, (i.e Parmesan and Cheddar).

>

>

> So no Shropshire Blue. But they might have another

> cows milk blue cheese.

>

> If you want British cheeses, you should go to the

> Cheese Block.

Yes, but in Mon's, their Cheddar has a silent 'r'....

[Seabag]

I must say I like the Cheese Block?s new signage

Tres hip !

[Socrates31]

ok so I've done a pre-order with mons... 3 cheeses and some crackers, min 250g, ?40, amazing cheese but my gosh nearly fell to the floor with the price...