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17 Oct
10:35pm, 17 Oct 2024
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macca 53
The same kinds of arguments have been going on in Darlington for a while. The local cheese and wine shop closed and a new owner is about to reopen it. The problem as I see is that not enough people are prepared/can afford to pay pretty much double the cost of the supermarkets (you can park free for 2 hours at our Sainsbury’s which is no more than five minutes walk from the posh cheese shop). The baker next door and another in the next street both seem to have good business selling sourdough loaves at £4.50 a throw, so the quality gap between artisanal cheese and supermarket cheese must be smaller than between good bread and supermarket bread.
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17 Oct
10:37pm, 17 Oct 2024
76,735 posts
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GlennR
Also, there’s no shortage of posh cheese in Waitrose where I can park without hassle.
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17 Oct
10:40pm, 17 Oct 2024
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macca 53
Darlington’s not posh enough to have Waitrose  😁
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17 Oct
10:56pm, 17 Oct 2024
76,736 posts
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GlennR
At least it has a fast railway so you can get out of the place.
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17 Oct
11:03pm, 17 Oct 2024
32,924 posts
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macca 53
Very true
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18 Oct
9:01am, 18 Oct 2024
22,116 posts
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Cerrertonia
There's at least three posh cheese shops closer to me than any big supermarkets. But I suppose we are in Wensleydale.
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18 Oct
10:55am, 18 Oct 2024
76,741 posts
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GlennR
As Cerrer no doubt knows we have a posh cheese shop in Cambridge, imaginatively named "The Cambridge Cheese Company". I'm not sure if it or the Milton Tesco is closer to me.
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18 Oct
11:00am, 18 Oct 2024
22,119 posts
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Cerrertonia
There's an even posher one on King Street.
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18 Oct
11:03am, 18 Oct 2024
22,120 posts
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Cerrertonia
And if you can afford to shop there you probably afford to park a car in central Cambridge, or can spend a million quid on a nearby Victorian terrace that would be considered slum housing in Brig or Darlo.
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18 Oct
11:57am, 18 Oct 2024
21,798 posts
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Gooner
The local farmers markets and farm shops regularly have cheese stalls but no local cheese shops that I am aware of other than half an hour away in Lichfield, sadly.
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