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A Gloucestershire farmer has saved an old breed from extinction, revived an old cheese and is recently worried about a famous bit of product placement in a new movie. Can you name the breed, the revived cheese, the film and how the product featured in the film gets its name?
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#59532. Asked by gmackematix. (Sep 23 05 11:22 AM)
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lanfranco
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Farmer Charles Martell has revived both the Old Gloucester breed of cattle and Stinking Bishop cheese, which gets its name from the fact that its rind is washed in pear cider, producing a strong smell. The cheese is being featured in the new Wallace and Gromit film, "The Curse of the Were Rabbit."
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4237402.stm
http://www.slowfood.com/img_sito/PREMIO/vincitori2003/pagine_en/UK_03.html
I should add that Charles Martell (great name) is worried that there will be as great a demand for his little "boutique cheese" as there was for Wensleydale after "A Grand Day Out."
I do love Wallace and Gromit, though my favorite is "The Wrong Trousers." I'm crazy about penguins, even criminal varieties.
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gmackematix
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Almost full marks for that, Frankie, although Stinking Bishop is actually the variety of the pear the juice to make the cheese comes from and that cheese is new.
He revived an old cheese in the early 1970s, one that is used in a famous annual event.
And with the farmer's name reminding me of Charles Martel, I almost called you Frankish.
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lanfranco
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Well, gmack, as far as the name of the cheese and its smell are concerned, I can only go by the BBC site. If the Beeb got it wrong, what can I do?
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gmackematix
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The new cheese that appears in the film is, as the BBC site says, Stinking Bishop, named after the pear.
But Charles Martell was known long before this for the production of another cheese.
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gmackematix
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It seems from that article that he revived raw milk Double Gloucester, Single Gloucester and Double Berkeley cheeses.
In the 70s the British cheese industry was flagging so badly that the Cheese Marketing Board invented something called the Ploughman's lunch, which involved a hunk of cheese and is now a staple of old fashioned English pub grub. Later they got people like Ted Heath to advertise cheese.
After the cheese on a stick party became fashionable (cf Abigail's Party), the crisis was over.
If I send you some cheese I can't guarantee the quality when it arrives. Just ask Peasy about her black forest gateaux.
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