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NorthernGent -> RE: Wensleydale cheese (11/30/2015 1:10:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
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ORIGINAL: blnymph
is all the Wensleydale cheese really made in Wensleydale?
Yes. It has PGI status so any cheese not made in Wensleydale is not allowed to be called Wensleydale cheese.
From Wensleydale Creamery Website: Our delicious Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, lovingly handcrafted in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, is creamy, crumbly and full of flavour. Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese has been awarded European Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status and is the only Wensleydale cheese to be handcrafted right here in Wensleydale.
From Wiki: Wensleydale Creamery in the town of Hawes has been hand-making cheese for more than 100 years. In May 1992, Dairy Crest, a subsidiary of the Milk Marketing Board, closed the Hawes creamery with the loss of 59 jobs. This was the last creamery in the dale.[citation needed] Dairy Crest transferred production of Wensleydale cheese to Yorkshire's traditional rival, Lancashire. Six months later, in November 1992, following many rescue offers, a management buyout took place, led by local businessman John Gibson and the management team. With the help of eleven members of the former workforce, cheese making recommenced in Wensleydale. It now (2012) employs 190 locals and buys from 36 farms located in Wensleydale.
...Wensleydale Dairy Products sought to protect the name Yorkshire Wensleydale under an EU regulation; PGI status was awarded in 2013.
I've always wondered why us Northerners have kept England's traditions alive in a way you Southerners haven't.
It surprises me because there are plenty of places down there that are rural, conservative and generally not that interested in the modern world.
But for some reason, and I could be wrong here, you're bit of a nothingness down there. Don't really produce anything that has its roots in the past.
As said, I could easily be wrong as I'm not in tune with your customs.
Off the top of my head I can think of these dishes that are still eaten across the North East, were bred in the North East and remain only eaten in the North East. You've probably never heard of them: pan haggerty, stottie cakes, peas pudding, panaculty (which is absolutely lush by the way and if you've never had this you need to try it), tattie hash, saveloy dip, craster kippers, singin' hinnies to name a few.
I'm genuinely curious. I know in the West Country, East Anglia, Cornwall and Devon and such places there will be a rich heritage - but in London and the likes is there anything still alive and kicking from the past?
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