Posted on 10/28/2024 7:54:04 AM PDT by Winniesboy
Cheddar stolen from London cheese specialist Neal’s Yard Dairy may have been shipped abroad to be sold on, a supplier has told the BBC.
Truckles of Patrick Holden's Hafod Welsh Cheddar were among the £300,000 worth of produce stolen in a scam on 21 October.
Mr Holden said he believed the con was "sophisticated" and the cheese could have been taken to Russia or the Middle East....
The high-value, award-winning cheeses, which also include Westcombe and Pitchfork, are sold for as much as £45 per kg.
The fraudsters posed as an agent of a French supermarket in order to receive the 22 tonnes of clothbound cheeses from the Southwark-based company...
"The robbers asked Neal's Yard to dispatch it to another warehouse in London, from which it was then collected by these nefarious people and then disappeared, so they cleverly covered their tracks."
Confirming that the cheese had already been removed from the warehouse, Mr Holden said: "I think they're hoping to sell it in the Middle East or Russia... Because people won't ask questions there. I think if they tried to sell it closer to home they'd find it difficult because the international artisan community is very connected,"
"If they tried to sell it in North America, where we sell a lot of Hafod, or even Australia believe it or not, the balloon would go up because people would ask questions."...
Posting on social media, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver called for people to keep an eye out for "lorryloads of posh cheese" being sold "for cheap".
Oliver told his Instagram followers: "There has been a great cheese robbery. Some of the best cheddar cheese in the world has been stolen."...
The Met Police has confirmed it is investigating "the theft of a large quantity of cheese".
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“Sorry, we’re fresh out of cheddar.”
Look for this to be solved - never. UK police are too busy making sure people who speak facts contrary to the government’s lies are put in prison.
lorryloads of posh cheese sounds like a good name for a rock band
This explains the Cheese Shop sketch from Monte Python. All the cheese had been stolen.
22 Tons?! Geez- no cheese!
Black market cheese smuggling is a running joke in the Thursday Next book series by Jasper Fforde.
Tillamook Cheddar won (and continues to win) a best in the world award at the international cheese judging. They don’t call it posh, so you can get it at a much better price.
i just want to know who moved my cheese?
.... and the black guy responded - “Hey! That’s Nacho Cheese!”
I like stolen cheese. Do you like stolen cheese?
I think it’s the same stuff that used to be made in Bandon, OR. We’d tour the cheese factory most times we went through Bandon. Cheese curds, and ice cream.... Tillamook bought them out.
I’m enjoying some four year aged cheddar along with this article.
Tillamook bought Bandon so Kraft wouldn’t. The cheese labeled Bandon is made by Tillamook with the original Bandon recipe.
The award winning Tillamook cheese was made in Tillamook from milk from Tillamook cows.
Oh boy, the punsters are going to milk this one to death.
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