[…] WHAT THE DEVIL IS IT?: NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW. It’s an oily cheese, claiming to be ‘FARMHOUSE MULDER PIQUANT’. After a few rounds of ‘This isn’t spicy though’, ‘why does it say piquant if there’s no chilli?’ we finally figured out that in this case piquant does not mean spicy, but pungent or tart. The name ‘farmhouse’ apparently doesn’t refer to the type of cheese but the method. It’s used exclusively for cheeses made in a traditional way on local farms in the Netherlands whose label is EU protected, which is just one of many important decisions that we will no longer be a part of If the UK leaves Europe in 2017. If you consider this as much of a travesty as we do, you can write to your local MP here… […]
[…] WHAT THE DEVIL IS IT?: NOBODY SEEMS TO KNOW. It’s an oily cheese, claiming to be ‘FARMHOUSE MULDER PIQUANT’. After a few rounds of ‘This isn’t spicy though’, ‘why does it say piquant if there’s no chilli?’ we finally figured out that in this case piquant does not mean spicy, but pungent or tart. The name ‘farmhouse’ apparently doesn’t refer to the type of cheese but the method. It’s used exclusively for cheeses made in a traditional way on local farms in the Netherlands whose label is EU protected, which is just one of many important decisions that we will no longer be a part of If the UK leaves Europe in 2017. If you consider this as much of a travesty as we do, you can write to your local MP here… […]
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