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by mocheeze 1586 days ago
Probably one in a country that exited their trade bloc full of countries known for a variety of cheeses.
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Dyac 1586 days ago
I think you're hinting at the UK, but even if it were true that imports of cheese has fallen to nothing (it hasn't), there are a lot of local cheeses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_cheeses

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kcartlidge 1585 days ago
> Probably one in a country that exited their trade bloc full of countries known for a variety of cheeses.

We still get EU cheeses in the supermarket - and photos of bare shelves/shortages in the media are pandemic-caused not Brexit-related (for the record I was a remainer so would gladly blame Brexit if that were the case).

However, even if we didn't get the EU cheeses we'd hardly be desperate given that some estimates put the varieties of cheese produced in the UK as high as 700 placing us alongside (or above) both France and Italy. We're certainly in the running for most varieties by most measures (though only around 10th or 11th for volumes, and to be fair a number of our varieties are more like variations though that doesn't take away from the point that the UK is a great cheese-producing nation in it's own right).

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