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Article: Supplier spotlight: Ilchester Cheese Company.(Market edge: MILK--CHEESE--BUTTER--EGGS)(Brief Article)
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- Grocer
- Article date:
- June 25, 2005
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Beer drinkers who dipped chunks of cheese in their pints in the 1960s inadvertently led to the creation of the Ilchester Cheese Company.
Dunking punters gave Ilchester pub landlord Ken Seaton the idea of making a cheese blended with beer, which he did in his back kitchen and served in the bar.
A Harrods buyer happened to call in at the pub, which was on the main route to Cornwall, for lunch one day. On tasting the product, he decided he wanted to sell it in the London store.
The 4oz pots weren't a big seller at first. But teetotallers in a Welsh temperance society heard about the product and wrote to the Daily Mail calling for a boycott of the ...