English Food Month at Coop?

or "Yet another cheddar cheese thread".

First it was Scones, now my local coop now has another cheddar to choose from.

This time it is a strong somerset cheddar sourced via Neals Yard Dairy , which IMHO normal has the best of British cheeses for sale (and to be recommended to anyone visiting Londons West end). It is in the Coop "Slow Food" range and having tried it, it is in a different league from the "Cathedral City" type they normal have at the cheese counter.

I wonder what will appear next .

Pat

Couldn't believe my eyes when I found Self Raising Flour in our local Coop!

And if you knew it was coming you'd have baked a cake....

Erm..

I'll get me coat.

Cheers,

Nick

They also have excellent Marmalade (thick cut seville) and Lemon Curd in the Fine Food range. McVities Chocolate digestives are there too.

wow i love coop. they seem like the only civilized supermarket in my town. they even have starbucks coffee! when the nearest starbucks is over 2 hours away i care. even though i dont even like starbucks.

also they are the only place in town that sells chicken that is boneless, but still has skin. im not for bones, its barbaric...

but wow cheddar. i cant wait to show my swiss friends.

... and don't forget the ginger biccies. Ideal for dunking!

Also plain McVities, milk, and dark chocolate MacVities (before they only had the dark chocolate ones). HobNobs, and ShortBread

They even have starbucks coffee? Wtf? As opposed to coffee that is not grown in starbucks?

The cheese is Keens, a really great Cheddar made in Somerset, on a farm and certainly is in a very different league to Cathedral City (which I believe is made in an enourmous chemical plant in Scotland).

It is not in our local Co-op, could someone let me know what the price is if you see it? It's not listed on the Co-op web site.

Some interesting pics of the cheese being made by George Keen on this Neals Yard page (I agree Pat, Neals Yard are a must see for anyone visiting London, either at their shop in Covent Garden or at their stall in Borough market)

http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/CHEESES/keens.html

Grumpy Grapefruit - of course it's not in our local Coop! They never have anything. I'm surprised our Coop has electricity and a coloured sign!

kadie

Coop has it priced at Sfr65 per Kilo.

I know it is a little on he pricey side, but it is cheaper than "Fenwicks" English shop....

Pat

That is very expensive. Globus has Montgomery's Cheddar which is much better cheese again at 64 a kilo (I think). I wanted to know because I was thinking of stocking Keens next month, and I can sell it for about 50 a kilo. Thanks!

Does it actually say "self raising flour" on the packet? I ask because I was looking for it over the weekend and the assistant didn't know what I was on about.

At least I can buy Weetabix, although regrettably not in the huge 72 packs. I couldn't live without them!

I found Birds custard powder in a Coop the other month too.

Does anyone know where I can caster sugar from, or proper demerara suger from?

What is proper demerara?

If you mean soft dark/light brown sugar that we know in UK (London demerara with mollasses)... online. If you just mean raw cane, Coop.

Caster sugar can be bought in Coop, look for what they call 'fine' sugar - sucre fin, methinks or sucre en poudre.

We had a home delivery from them a few weeks ago everything was yummy , but do not order there English bacon it is expensive and lets just say not so yummy

Thanks for the heads up!

Well for a start it is Portugese!, Brand name seems to be "Nacional" Para Bolos, Farinha Autolevedante de trigo. Comes in a 1 kg paper bag, blue and white with a picture of a cake and eggs on the front. On the side it has Portugese, Spanish, English and French description. It was down the aisle which has "odd foreign stuff", not in the baking aisle! On the till receipt it is listed as Farinha Autolev. Costs 5.10 chf. Hope this helps! It seems to work just as well as McDougals!

It can't only be our Coop that has Heinz Baked Beans - must be worth a mention!

Your welcome i was really looking forward to having a proper bacon sandwhich and was so disapointed when i cooked it i could not eat it, don`t want anyone wasting there money like i did, but as i said before all the other stuff was really good