Scammers Stole More than 20 Tons of Cheddar Worth Nearly $400,000 From This Famed Shop in London

Food & Wine ^ | Stacey Leasca

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxsuLBClBFY&pp=ygUbRmFta2x5IGd1eSwgY2hlc3RlciBjaGVldGFo

[dayglored]

SCOUT: It’s not much of a cheese shop, is it?

OWNER: Finest in the district!

SCOUT: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.

OWNER: Well, it’s so clean, sir!

SCOUT: It’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese....

[BradyLS]

Cleese: “…Do you have any cheddar? (He asked, expecting the answer ‘No.’)”

Palin: “Mmm…No. Sorry. Not today sir.”

Cleese: “No cheddar?!? It’s the most popular cheese in the world!”

Palin: “Not very popular ‘round these parts.”

Cleese: “Hmm. And what IS popular ‘round these parts’?”

Palin: “‘Illsdale, sir.”

Cleese: “Hillsdale is it? Very well, I’ll have some of that, then.”

Palin: “Oooh…I’m sorry.”

Cleese: “What now???”

Palin: “The cat’s eaten it.”

Cleese: “Has he?”

Palin: “She, sir.”

Cleese: “Tell me: how does this shop stay open?”

Palin: “Oh, it’s the best cheese shop in manor, squire!”

Cleese: “Explain the logic behind THAT statement!”

Palin: “Well…It’s so CLEAN, sir!”

Cleese: “It’s certainly devoid of any cheese!…”

[BradyLS]

You remember it better thanI did! 🙂

[Dr. Sivana]

Brits love their cheese

[BatGuano]

I’ll bet that the shop is the one that was featured in Monty Python’s skit featuring John Cleese.....They were out of ALL cheeses.

[Dr. Sivana]

So they managed to convert pounds to dollars but not grams to pounds..?

You notice how these metric users promote the system because of the uniformity of everything being by 10s?

But they do not follow their own rules for weights. Why not say 3 hectograms instead of 300 grams? Why is the distance between the two most common weight measurements separated by a factor of 1,000? Not 10 or 100?

If you asked 100 Brits, Frenchies, or Candadians how much is a hectogram, maybe one in five would even know, and half of them by guessing. Pounds and ounces work.

[dayglored]

> You remember it better thanI did! 🙂

I cheated; I looked up the script LOL

[HonkyTonkMan]

It appears someone infiltrated their place of purveyance in search of some cheesy comestibles.

[Glad2bnuts]

That ain’t nothing, the US government stole 80,000 lbs of butter, because it wasn’t labeled as Dairy.

[Glad2bnuts]

That ain’t nothing, the US government stole 80,000 lbs of butter, because it wasn’t labeled as Dairy.

[Glad2bnuts]

That ain’t nothing, the US government stole 80,000 lbs of butter, because it wasn’t labeled as Dairy.

[dinodino]

My favorite cheese shop in the world...

[dinodino]

I walked in there once and was the only customer, so I launched into the cheese shop sketch. The young Polish girl behind the counter looked at me like I was insane—she had no clue what I was talking about. :D

[dayglored]

> Why is the distance between the two most common weight measurements separated by a factor of 1,000? Not 10 or 100?

I'm surprised you don't know, being a doctor and thus having a scientific background.

Intervals of 1000 are standard usage in scientific and engineering practice and have been for a very long time. It's not just weight (gram/kilogram). It's fractional time (millisec, microsec, nanosec, etc.), large quantities (thousand, million, billion, trillion, etc. and kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc.) and so forth.

1000 is the accepted interval where you switch to the next name, in most areas of science and certainly engineering. Indeed, whereas "scientific notation" uses integer powers of 10, "engineering notation" uses only powers of 10 that are multiples of 3 (10^3 being 1000).

Aside: the "MKS" system (meter/kilogram/second) has largely won out over the "CGS" (centimeter/gram/second) system which is still used in some scientific sub-fields.

[KarlInOhio]

If it’s $10 per pound for cheddar imagine how much Venezuelan beaver cheese is.

[Dr. Sivana]

I'm surprised you don't know, being a doctor and thus having a scientific background.

I regularly clarify that "Doctor Sivana" is a fictitious comic book doctor of the evil mad scientist variety. My Bacehlor's is in Political Science and Economics, and I do not have a Master's , much less a PhD.

I am not talking about the scientific measurement world, where grams and milligrams, etc. are very useful, and better than grains and ounces. I am talking about every non-scientific day life, which is where 90%+ of human activity activity takes place.

If you go to Canada, and wanted to order fish from the supermarket, a kilogram is usually too much, and a gram is way too little. Do they use hectograms? No. They sell it by the "100 gram". One can easily picture in one's mind, an ounce, or a gram, or a kilogram. One cannot easily picture 100 grams in the same way one can picture a half-pound. Hectogram never got picked up in day to day life, and we were all taught in the American schools that factors of ten were the way to go. You will NEVER see scientific notation used in day to day commerce or casual exchange, outside of a Dilbert comic strip or XKCD.COM.

[dayglored]

> I regularly clarify that "Doctor Sivana" is a fictitious comic book doctor of the evil mad scientist variety.

My apologies for a bad assumption. I have managed to miss your comments about it in the past, sorry about that, Doc. :-)

> I am talking about every non-scientific day life, which is where 90%+ of human activity activity takes place... One cannot easily picture 100 grams in the same way one can picture a half-pound.

Point acknowledged. With regard to weight, I have a fairly good concept of how much is a gram and a kilogram, as well as an ounce and a pound. All the others, metric or customary, are puzzles and I have to convert to one of those four units mentally. In particular, the British "stone" (nominally 14 pounds) eludes me as a weight unit. "He weighs 13 stone"; I have no idea what that is until I multiply.

[Winniesboy]

Not going to get rich selling cheddar in France.

You'd be surprised:

Why France is Going Mad for British Cheese