French Snacks.

[Richard]

My wife and I tend to have a large meal at about 2.30 pm on a Sunday.
So we don't really need an evening meal, but we do get peckish about now, 7.30 pm.
My usual choice is a selection of French cheeses...... my first choice is a good Camembert de Pays, I also love Port Salut and Munster, but my favourites have to be Chaource and a recently discovered Goats Milk Camembert from Nouvelle Aquitaine.....delicious. ...I love Conte, Emmental and Gruyere too, even if two of those are not French.
The French also make some superb Blue cheeses.

[exile]

I am not sure the French snack on cheese. Far too good for snacking.

But cheese - not just French - is wonderful stuff and highly regional. Despite attempts to make Cheddar around the world you cannot beat a proper farmhouse strong cheddar from the levels. Similarly Brie-mimics are not a patch on the real thing, soft, unctuous and full of flavour.

Personal favourites:
Brie
Cheddar
Roquefort
Blue Stilton
Manchego
Parmesan/Gran Padano - to my shame I cannot distinguish the difference but I do appreciate what they do to Italian dishes.
Comte
Tete de Moine
Picadon
Red Leicester
Emmental
Pecorino
Epoisse
Blue d'Auvergne
Tome
Lancashire - acid and crumbly

I like cheese - but you may have guessed that.

[Spardo]

Because I can't get Cheddar here, it is always Cantal for me, from the butcher, not the supermarket. Much more flavourful wrapped in brown paper rather than clingy, slimy clingfilm.

No cheese in the world compares with Stilton, but, as we are an alcohol free house and thus I cannot have port with it, I no longer bother with any French varieties at all.

[Doug]

Buy cantal from the cheese counter[mention]Spardo[/mention] and its cut from a whole lump, just ask for the weight that you need.
I buy it by the kilo cantal jeune and store it in the cave covered cutting off enough for a week to have in a mid-day sanwich with ham or jambon cru, our super usually has it in three ages vieux being oldest and dearest.
Love the Saler one, lait cru.

[Spardo]

Buy cantal from the cheese counter@Spardo and its cut from a whole lump, just ask for the weight that you need.
I buy it by the kilo cantal jeune and store it in the cave covered cutting off enough for a week to have in a mid-day sanwich with ham or jambon cru, our super usually has it in three ages vieux being oldest and dearest.
Love the Saler one, lait cru.

Our little Auchan doesn't have a cheese counter, but the butcher does, that why I buy there.

[Doug]

Here is a guide to 561 French cheeses.
www.leguidedufromage.com/fromages-i.html
Click on a cheese to get info.

Bonne appetit.

[hughnique]

At one time it was a corned beef salad sandwich, with lashings of mayo, then someone looked at the ingredients on a can we bought in Netto's, "tete de boeuf", the equivalent UK tin just says cooked beef, so that is off the menu now.

[Oldblueraincoat]

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I wrote this a few years ago about the weekly visit to our local market of what l fondly called the fromage truck.

"As a lover of all things dairy, especially cheese, the visit from the fromage truck on Friday mornings is eagerly anticipated. As you know France is the worlds leading producer of the lovely stuff with over 360 varieties and l do believe that my friendly fromager manages to accomodate a sample of nearly all of them, thats why his truck is so long. Although my dear wife keeps me on a tight rein she does allow me to indulge my passion for the more obscure and pungent types of cheese providing its kept in the garage and not the fridge. I do manage to limit myself to two small portions per week and have now tried over 15O different sorts of cheese. When l first started visiting the truck l thought l knew a thing or two about cheese – not now – Clement, the owner and operator of the truck and font of all cheese knowledge, selects each weeks cheese and provides a commentary on place of origin, method of production and description of taste and texture. He no longer gives me a degustation (sample) as l would loiter for nearly an hour nibbling on rather more cheese than l would buy until Madame would have to physically wrestle me away from the truck."

As a lover of cheese l was dismayed to recently read this headline and it's accompanying article:

IF YOUR'RE OVER 65 NEVER EAT THIS KIND OF CHEESE

https://www.healthpls.com/if-youre-over ... yo-clinic/

[Pathca]

To keep a sense of proportion,how many people have we actually heard of being ill from this ?

[Oldblueraincoat]

To keep a sense of proportion,how many people have we actually heard of being ill from this ?

Agreed - It's obviously those disillusioned rabble in the Anti-Cheesers Brigade (ACB)