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Well I never knew Quorn was hunted. No wonder it's not vegan.
'fox-slaughtering' as opposed to 'fox hunting' - perhaps you were the 'only Guardian reader in the village'.
One set of people hunting beaver too.

(There is a vegan formulation of Quorn, I believe.)
>>but has since been relocated to a random building in the town centre.

Somewhat defeats the purpose of a plaque surely, putting it on a different building in a different location. One migt as wells tick up plaques randomly🙄
>>How the local youth have the gall to pop into Greggs on the Market Square I'll never know

Do Dickinson and Co sell Coconut fingers then?
The museum has put activists and saboteurs in a case? Blimey.

(Just teasing DG, keep up the good work.)

dg replies:



Meltonfact: Stilton came first and pork pies second. Farmers needed to do something with all the surplus whey from cheesemaking, so started using it to fatten pigs.
"Melton Mowbray" is not the only name that the area has exclusive rights to. "Stilton" cheese can be made in Melton Mowbray, but not in Stilton itself.
Excellent. DG has upset the pro-hunt (er, slaughter) lobby.

I think DG's comment about finding a use for the excess whey is absolutely fascinating.
Yes, Stilton was only ever sold in the village of Stilton (Cambridgeshire), rather than made there. It can only be made in Leicestershire, Derbyshire or Nottinghamshire
There is a blue cheese manufacturer in Stilton, who rather cheekily uses the medieval form of the town's name Stichelton.
Wikipedia thinks that Stichelton cheese is made in Nottinghamshire. I cannot confirm whether that is correct.

dg writes: If you were to utilise a search engine, this would confirm that it is indeed made in Nottinghamshire, not the village of Stilton.
Learnt yesterday that the 'Y' in 'Ye' represents the old English thorn letter and is pronounced 'Th' as in 'Thick' - not 'Ye' as in 'Yeeha'.

Not sure about the added 'e' on 'olde' - is that pseudo old English or was it actually written that way. Is it silent when spoken?
Meltonfact: The expression ‘painting the town red’ dates back to 1837 when the Marquis of Waterford and his friends, drunk after a day at the races, used a pot of red paint to daub many of Melton's most important buildings.
The sequence of making cheese then feeding pigs on the whey then eating them exists also in parmesan >>> parma ham
It looks like I've finally been somewhere none of my commenters claim to have visited.
...and for your pie you paid cash?!

dg writes: I'm not one for stealing.
> Not sure about the added 'e' on 'olde' - is that pseudo old English or was it actually written that way. Is it silent when spoken?

“olde” is one of more than seventy spellings of old in the OED, found in southern Middle English from at least the 13th century (1989 entry, you can access the current entry free online with many public library cards).

When spelt “olde”, the word seems to have been pronounced as two syllables. But “the olde” or “þe olde” may have been only two syllables as well, since together the words are said to have been pronounced as “tholdè” (note 367).

The earliest pseudoarchaic use of olde is traced by the OED to a US publication in 1852: “…the character of ‘the old fogy’, or ‘ye olde fogie’…”.
Good to see that you recognised it as the cowardly illegal fox slaughtering that it is - maybe you were the only person... <derogatory comments about incest deleted>.
I made a surprise discovery about pork pies just a couple of weeks ago.
Ever since I was introduced to them as a kid I was under the belief that the only way they were meant to be eaten was cold.
I tried putting one in a microwave and it was a whole new experience: it not only transformed the pastry from cloyish to soft, but also made the flavours of the seasoning really pop.
Would this be regarded as heresy where they originate from, or did you come across anywhere actually serving them warm?
Afraid not DG. I walked from Nottingham to Melton a few years back and had lunch at Old Dalby on the way. The sight of S stock speeding through the Wolds while on test was quite surreal. The Melton sign in your post is I think on the railway station platform, which is also quite unusual.
How Melton Mowbray ever conned the EU into giving them sole rights to the pork pie I will never know. Lincolnshire makes a far superior pork pie but we weren't even allowed to protect the Lincolnshire sausage.
Unfortunately DG I used to live there so had to visit daily. You were lucky not to visit on a day when Pedigree Petfoods were cooking up the dog food - the whole area near the town centre stinks of boiled scrag-ends. Not a good place to live if you’d a vegetarian ( or a Guardian reader)










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