Icy Gull
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Thought this was an April fool when I first heard it 
AFP: Swiss Champagne village fights to reclaim use of name
AFP: Swiss Champagne village fights to reclaim use of name
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Champagne what a load of bollox by the French
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Icy Gull
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What quite right that they can make a town called Champagne stop calling their wine Champagne after a few hundred years? I don't think so, they are hardly a threat to French Champagne are they and the place is actually called Champagne?
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It's the process called cheddaring that makes Cheddar cheese, not its place of origin.
Cheddaring is a step in the production of cheese where, after heating, the curd is kneaded with salt, then is cut into cubes to drain the whey, then stacked and turned.
Joseph Harding of Somerset, was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese making techniques in the mid nineteenth century, and has been described as the "father of Cheddar Cheese". He himself took the method to Scotland and North America. So it's hardly a case of Somerset ways of cheese making being stolen by people outside the "traditional area".
The EU does, however, recognise "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" as a protected designation of origin (PDO). To qualify, the cheese must be made in the traditional manner using local ingredients in one of the four designated counties of South West England: Somerset, Devon, Dorset, or Cornwall.
Cheddaring is a step in the production of cheese where, after heating, the curd is kneaded with salt, then is cut into cubes to drain the whey, then stacked and turned.
Joseph Harding of Somerset, was responsible for the introduction of modern cheese making techniques in the mid nineteenth century, and has been described as the "father of Cheddar Cheese". He himself took the method to Scotland and North America. So it's hardly a case of Somerset ways of cheese making being stolen by people outside the "traditional area".
The EU does, however, recognise "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" as a protected designation of origin (PDO). To qualify, the cheese must be made in the traditional manner using local ingredients in one of the four designated counties of South West England: Somerset, Devon, Dorset, or Cornwall.
Lord Bracknell
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There's a village in central Italy called Sambuca. Their football team used to play in the same league as the team from the town that I lived in.
They have no claim whatsoever to the name that is given to the drink, which was first imported into Italy from the middle east (through the port of Civitavecchia) in the mid nineteenth century. But that doesn't stop the good people of Sambuca putting it about that their village is the "home" of this drink.
Thanks. I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
Gully
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I always wondered if Buffalo Wings, so favoured in North America, actually came from that drab excuse for a town just over the border from Niagara...even though they are chicken and certainly nothing to do with buffalos.