Misleading tastes

Of the various cheeses that I eat, Lincolnshire Poacher from Neal's Yard Dairy accounts for the vast majority, snapped above from the dairy web site.

Presently I am buying rather more than a kilo every two or three weeks, and it seems to stand in the refrigerator for that time quite satisfactorily. But the longer it is there, the darker band visible near the rind in the snap above, gets darker and wider.

And chewing on a bit of dark with brown bread yesterday afternoon, I got all the sensations - both texture and flavour - of the Comté Grande Réserve which I also buy from time to time from the people at reference 1. Most recently by mail order, but I have used their barrow in Borough Market in the past. Perhaps on the way to the Barrow Boy & Banker.

And something of the same sensations at breakfast this morning, although the echo of the French cheese was fainter this second time around.

Perhaps the perception of the texture and taste of cheese is as labile as that of colour, noticed at reference 2.

PS: for the avoidance of doubt, I should add that while we get most of our cheese from Borough and some of our wine from Guildford, we get most of our wine (Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand) and most of our Calvados from Majestic Wine around the corner in East Street and our serious meat from Manor Green Road. Majestic, in part because their wine comes with screw tops, more suitable than wax overcoated corks, for the occasional social drinker. See reference 5.

Reference 1: Home (thefrenchcomte.co.uk).

Reference 2: psmv4: Jigsaw 11, Series 3, Notice C.

Reference 3: Majestic Wine - Buy Wine & Champagne Online. The wine merchant.

Reference 4: Master Butchers Epsom | Local Family Butcher | Fresh Produce Delivered. The meat merchant.

Reference 5: psmv4: From Kimmeridge.