1978: STILTON - A Question of CHARACTER | A Taste of Britain | Science and Nature | BBC Archive

[@VengoSofocado]

Blessed are the Cheese Makers.

[@EcosseZA]

That's enough from you big nose...

[@AOKONE]

Now I need to see the movie again, thanks!

[@kjyost]

Obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products!!

[@secretagentbloke]

Aged 5 I couldn’t stand it when my grandfather used to sit there eating his “stinky cheese” ! Nowadays I won’t buy it because I’ll eat it too quickly 😂

[@orionxtc1119]

I never tasted Stilton cheese... just bought Tesco's finest today... will try it later....

[@secretagentbloke]

@@orionxtc1119 once out of the plastic, let it breathe for a couple of hours first

[@heartofoak45]

Age and wisdom, hopefully, go together. The range of English Cheeses can't be bettered anywhere and that includes the French and Italians.

[@cleanerben9636]

@@heartofoak45 we seem to have a different cheese for every village almost

[@mrtactica]

midland delicacies are best

[@snecko]

3:59 Guy still hasn't got used to the fact there's a queen a year after her silver jubilee lol

[@Troll_the_Trolls]

😂😂😂😂

[@InfiniteLoop]

now I want some stilton, thank you BBC

[@njjswinson]

We used to get one for Christmas in the 1970s We would spoon it out from the centre and then pour a bit of vintage port into the cheese, It would slowly be absorbed by the Stilton mouth watering ! I can’t tell you how delicious it is! Try it,😋🍷

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

Yum! All I need now is some crusty bread and a glass of wine!

[@louiep777]

YES! Saw this on Ponderland. Been searching for it for years.

[@thischarmingyoungman]

It's always a treat when you find a ponderland clip in the wild.

[@mariabarnard4484]

My late husband would have loved to watch this. Stilton was his favourite cheese. I recently saw you can still get cheese with maggots in Italy.

[@hopebgood]

I've seen that maggot cheese on the telly but never tried it I wonder what it's like and would I try it? Yeah, I probably would.

[@Bassyswing1]

I think it is actually illegal in Italy but is obviously still made privately.

[@thejoin4687]

Cheese wi' maggo'tin?

[@EcosseZA]

You can get anything with maggots in Italy, I think they're referred to as Italians.

[@thejoin4687]

@@EcosseZA Ooooh.

[@martinwarner1178]

My grown up son took some stilton to his Italian friends, family house, the patriarch, a fine lover of all things food and drink, swore it was the finest cheese he had tasted. My way of consuming, port wine, biscuits, after the main meal. Peace and goodwill.

[@louiep777]

“I would love a bloody cheese with half of it bloody maggots” Makes you proud to be English doesn’t it?

[@hoilst265]

Or Sicilian...

[@louiep777]

@@hoilst265 Casu Martzu. A Sardinian delicacy.

[@heliarche]

That guy seemed pretty fond of it. I'd try it.

[@cleanerben9636]

@@louiep777 Exactly. There's something going on there with maggoty cheese. Mold is one step, maybe the grubs are the next?

[@Mmouse_]

​@@cleanerben9636it's definitely a thing... I don't think I'm up for it myself, but I would try it out of curiosity.

[@nezbit8989]

I would never eat it when I was young but one Christmas I was drinking red wine and i was starving so I ate a piece and washed it down with the wine and a love affair was born 😋

[@EcosseZA]

And you've been a wino ever since? 🤓

[@nezbit8989]

@@EcosseZA only if there’s Stilton 😄

[@ChilliCheezdog]

Greatest invention in the history of Mankind 🧀I cannot, and will not, imagine a world without cheese. Stilton, schmilton. If it's curds and whey, I'm on it 🤤

[@OakmanNZ]

I liked the puppet characters at the end of this clip. Very lifelike.

[@lovedaybebe5881]

It’s just the very best , when it’s good Stilton . For me it’s one of the best things about Christmas, homemade cranberry sauce, some pickled walnuts , good stick of celery , Stilton and Bath Oliver’s 🙏🏻 heaven

[@MrRufusjax]

I like how at the end of the video they surveyed a bunch of drunks as to the merits of maggots in your cheese.

[@shaunthornton2381]

from 4 mins on this becomes the best cheese documentary ever made , you have to be past a certain age and nationality to know that Monty Python dodnt actually make any of their characters up !

[@jamesgale2147]

I'll have some tonight. I am eating cheddar now. The two best cheeses in the world

[@grahampartridge9335]

Born in Cropwell bishop I passed the Stilton dairy every day on the way to school. 50 years later I still can't leave it alone! . One of the Best cheeses there is

[@stewartclarke2474]

This was used on Russell brand ponderland

[@louiep777]

I FILL MY CHEEKS WITH MAGGOTS

[@ricesnot]

How did this fascinating piece on Stilton production descend into drunken chaos

[@Mat_Rural]

Because they went to the pub? Kind of obvious, if you think about it.

[@giulioarti4852]

Hands down one of the worlds finest cheeses

[@Phobero]

We have plenty of wonderful cheeses here in Italy - but I have to say Stilton is my absolute favourite 🖤

[@steveferry5629]

makes me proud to be British.

[@GhastlyCretin]

I tried Blue Stilton as a kid. It turned my stomach after the first taste but I ended up eating my body weight in it that day. It was almost like a drug lol. I quickly became addicted.

[@myopenmind527]

Used to pass through Cropwell Bishop and Colsten Bassett varying my route from day to day on my was to work in the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.

[@paulanderson7796]

Colston Bassett has always been my preferred Silton.

[@georgeton4991]

​@@paulanderson7796yes

[@danuk2136]

Omg this is where Russel brand got the maggot clip on ponderland -food episode

[@Graterstuuf]

I’ve never had it but I will eat before it’s over.

[@hilaryepstein6013]

BBC Archive films are not only entertaining but an education although I think Mr Maggot was just trying to wind everyone up.

[@D10010101]

He was on to something, there is a cheese called "Casu martzu" that is meant to be eaten with maggots in it.

[@JC-gm3zs]

Daniel Defoe in his 1724 work A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain notes, "We pass'd Stilton, a town famous for cheese, which is call'd our English Parmesan, and is brought to table with the mites or maggots round it, so thick, that they bring a spoon with them for you to eat the mites with, as you do the cheese."[

[@cleanerben9636]

@@JC-gm3zs I mean to be fair, if all the mites and maggots ate were cheese, they'd just taste of cheese I would guess.

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

No, he was just from Leicestershire, that's what they're like the wrong side of Watling Street.

[@HullzOSRS]

"ARRRR LUV MA CHEESE WITH A BLUDAY MAGGOT IN EM"

[@MrRichiekaye]

Who was the narrator? Hung over, just trying to get it up in a morning session. Fantastic. Loved it. Who was he???

[@Cartoonwarper]

Sounded like Derek Cooper who used to present the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4

[@Muninman62]

Yes, Derek Cooper. Best known for overdubbing Tomorrow's World and presenting the Food Programme.

[@garethprice218]

Would love to go back and listen to them fellas, putting the world to rights over a few pints of ale 😂

[@orionxtc1119]

I never tasted Stilton cheese... just bought Tesco's finest today... will try it later....

[@GBScouts]

How was it

[@tedmills]

Need an update

[@EcosseZA]

Seems like the poor person did not enjoy the Stilton......more for the rest of us, yay!!!

[@grbadalamenti]

I can't find Stilton cheese in Italy. Only cheddar in Lidl.

[@DoItWithPaulie]

at 3.30 the mouldy bacterial handprint makes me hungry

[@LeonDerczynski]

Amazing

[@bartram33]

Possibly the best cheese on the planet earth .. can’t speak about the plant Zog, but definitely on earth.

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

It is the only cheese my dad never had to share, only he liked Stilton

[@thebrit1976]

Old skills old England I wonder if the farm factory is still there ?🇬🇧

[@sawleyram7405]

It is! I live at the junction of the Trent and Soar where Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire meet and there are still plenty of cheese makers around here. In fact at Windley near Driffield there is a cheese and milk dispensing machine from cheese made locally. There are still young people who take on the skills of the generation above.

[@jezt42]

@@sawleyram7405That’s lovely to hear 🙂👍

[@bid84]

Blessed are the cheese makers

[@michaelturner4457]

@@bid84 What's so special about the cheesemakers?

[@OffGridInvestor]

​@@michaelturner4457they're holding onto the culture (literally and figuratively ) that is quickly disappearing.

[@fellspoint9364]

Is the cheese still produced in a similar manner today ?

[@fburton8]

Fondled and prodded by bare hands? I hope not!

[@fellspoint9364]

I should be so lucky

[@NimbleJack3]

Yes, though of course food safety is better-understood today and people wear gloves, etc. Curd is still cut with wire paddles and cheeses are still rubbed down by hand.

[@Canalcoholic]

There are still small, independent cheese makers, but most of it is factory produced garbage. Hasn't been the same since it all had to be pasteurised.

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

@@Canalcoholic Not Stilton. There's only six dairies, all within about 20 or 30 miles of each other, licensed to produce Stilton. If you're eating "factory produced garbage" then it's not Stilton.

[@RichyJMovies]

the original james may cheeze guy

[@stevei-c8739]

My late great auntie used to say get a magnifying glass and look at the bugs. Put me right off Stilton!

[@aggieburger6681]

This reminds me of The Lost Boys .

[@melokc7257]

I wonder if this was what the Griswold kids were watching when they had started their European vacation.

[@jonathancowles8488]

I'm ready for a scrap

[@paullyons8608]

Does anyone know the exact location of the pub?

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

Somewhere near Melton Mowbray, I think, because there's a similar video of Melton pork pies that clearly is from the same pub. No idea of the exact location I'm afraid.

[@ericsynchrona5495]

There's a guy in the end who likes maggots in his cheese, turn the video captions on.

[@OffGridInvestor]

You know about the cheese in Sardinia that has maggots in it? It's a particular kind of small fly, Gordon Ramsay has shown it a few times. It's an acquired taste.

[@thejoin4687]

@@OffGridInvestor "It's an acquired taste." ...for the maggots or...?

[@markbell9135]

What’s father Jack doing on there?

[@FinbarCharlesBarton0]

Eating bloody maggots never hurt me. My god we miss this generation

[@TheColleenDabeanShow]

I could give up meat easily enough, but cheese...I don't want to live without cheese.

[@chosenone5417]

That old crazy fella wasn't wrong about the maggots, its a delicacy in Sardinia ltaly. its Called Casu martzu. He must have tasted that type of cheese on his buccaneering adventures in his early days. Hats off to him. 🏴‍☠

[@Herblay63]

I've once unknowingly ate a lot of stilton that contained cheese mites. Until the point where I saw what I thought were crumbs moving on the table, I thought it the most wonderful cheese I'd eaten in a very long while.

[@chesterwig]

Classic English gents drunk on cheese

[@louiep777]

Is this the same documentary as the one where the townsfolk wouldn’t tell the presenter where the cheese is from?

[@jerryfields4837]

i adore cheese that smells like toe jam, its all the same bacteria btw

[@thrilhous]

My high school science teacher taught me that and I never forgot it.

[@butterfliesandtape]

mild fresh cheese is the best sort. mature goat's cheese is pure hell on earth for me.

[@paulanderson7796]

Each to their own. We all have preferences and there is nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

[@DeannaAllison]

Hand made cheese, back in the good old days before Health & Safety, when that meant cheese made with bare hands and not worrying too much about spreading germs. The old chap who would be happy to find his cheese contained maggots was quite a character too.

[@dolphincrescent54]

Who else found out about Stilton through Wallace and Gromit?

[@DaraM73]

Everyone, everyone has sinus problems!

[@Jdac333]

I know right! Too much alcohol

[@pim1234]

Those are Dutch cows, how can the cheese be patented ?

[@Josewilliams94]

Nah the way your man said "fat dairy cows" was predatory

[@cerberus6654]

It's Wensleydale for me!

[@midnightmosesuk]

I like moi cheeese wiv bludy maggots. It never did me any 'arm! BUZZZZ!

[@michaelturner4457]

Up next, how we make Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

[@fburton8]

Mmm, my favourite!

[@OffGridInvestor]

Venezuela isn't in the British Empire. So they're going to not report that. But I get the joke.

[@lefuedebout]

England oh England, wherefore art thou!

[@heartofoak45]

Now then with all the rubbish that is going on in the country at the moment, as regards the unrest, the gentlemen in the pub sampling the blue stilton epitomise to me an Englishman.

[@alandominguez6346]

I’ll try it again but I’m sorry the french win the blue cheese war.

[@johnp515]

Nonsense. Stilton has a lot more character and complexity than Roquefort

[@pit_stop77]

I do like Stilton but prefer roquefort but only in small doses 😂

[@paulanderson7796]

I agree with you completely.

[@dougsimmonds5385]

The England that Tony Blair destroyed

[@ashleesales9318]

Nice one tone

[@franciscouch8378]

How did he destroy it out of curiosity?

[@lukesorley]

​@@franciscouch8378 Mass immigration, obviously.

[@Inconvenientx]

Lol. 1978. Now who was about to come into power?

[@dougsimmonds5385]

@@franciscouch8378 you know

[@greg0uk]

All them cows are dead.

[@christokaloudis2050]

Real England what was, now England what is, not England what’s now 😢😢😢

[@simontyrrell8866]

I wish I could buy Stilton like this, modern Stilton is revolting. Such a shame

[@johnp515]

How can you know if it was the same or better or worse in the past if you never tasted it?

[@simontyrrell8866]

@@johnp515 Hi John, I would have thought that was obvious, I'm old enough to remember the cheese very well, I did taste it back then and it was delicious

[@MrOzzy281]

Never forget what they took from you.

[@PhilOsGarage]

They didn’t though, Stilton is protected and still made in very much the same way now. It ‘doesn’t taste as good’ simply because the sense of taste deteriorates with age.

[@MrOzzy281]

@@PhilOsGarage not talking about the cheese.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Cropwell Bishop is better.

[@hopebgood]

Stilton is dry, crumbly and boring. I much prefer the stronger creamy stinkiness of St Agur.

[@johnp515]

It’s not dry and it’s not boring.

[@hopebgood]

@@johnp515 😀 ok

[@Sparkypark]

No such thing as an incorrect opinion… until now

[@paulanderson7796]

And Roquefort. That's my personal favourite.

[@hopebgood]

@@paulanderson7796 Oooh yeah Paul mate. I like that too. Another blue cheese that is so much creamier and stronger than dry & boring Stilton.

[@bardo0007]

How can anyone eat this, it's disgusting.

[@paulanderson7796]

No one's forcing it upon you.

[@johnsantos2631]

this film really show how these asylum seekers love their cheese

[@ivanskavinskiskavar6242]

Throw it out❗ 🤮🤮🤮

[@paulanderson7796]

Why? No one forces you to eat it.

[@chosenone5417]

@1:30 how can they weigh it in the morning. When they took all that time and effort to remove the whey the day before!????? Its whey above my head now. so confusing. i will just take it with a bit of salt.

[@kevinwood5005]

We are still the greatest at cheese making in the world, if nothing else.🧀