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

Blue Stilton, ironically, cannot actually be made in the village of Stilton. To be considered true Blue Stilton, the cheese must be made from milk provided by dairy herds in Derbyshire, Leicestershire or Nottinghamshire.
As well as seeing the immense care that the producers take in making the cheese, we hear in this clip from one particular pub-goer who loves his Stilton with a little added surprise…
Clip taken from A Taste of Britain: Forard, Forard, originally broadcast on BBC Two, Tuesday 8 August, 1978.
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[@flukenukem]

Blessed are the Cheese Makers.

[@EcosseZA]

That's enough from you big nose...

[@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

[@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?

[@InfiniteLoop]

now I want some stilton, thank you BBC

[@snecko]

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

[@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 😋

[@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 🤤

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@jamesgale2147]

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

[@Phobero]

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

[@stewartclarke2474]

This was used on Russell brand ponderland

[@octaviussludberry9016]

Let's not talk about that turd.

[@louiep777]

I FILL MY CHEEKS WITH MAGGOTS

[@butterfliesandtape]

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

[@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.

[@garethprice218]

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

[@grbadalamenti]

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

[@HullzOSRS]

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

[@orionxtc1119]

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

[@GBScouts]

How was it

[@cerberus6654]

It's Wensleydale for me!

[@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.

[@Graterstuuf]

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

[@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.

[@stevei-c8739]

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

[@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.

[@RichyJVideos]

the original james may cheeze guy

[@lefuedebout]

England oh England, wherefore art thou!

[@DoItWithPaulie]

at 3.30 the mouldy bacterial handprint makes me hungry

[@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...?

[@melokc7257]

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

[@aggieburger6681]

This reminds me of The Lost Boys .

[@jerryfields4837]

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

[@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.

[@paullyons8608]

Does anyone know the exact location of the pub?

[@DaraM73]

Everyone, everyone has sinus problems!

[@Jdac333]

I know right! Too much alcohol

[@louiep777]

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

[@chesterwig]

Classic English gents drunk on cheese

[@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.

[@midnightmosesuk]

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

[@christokaloudis2050]

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

[@pit_stop77]

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

[@kevinwood5005]

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

[@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

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Cropwell Bishop is better.

[@ivanskavinskiskavar6242]

Throw it out❗ 🤮🤮🤮

[@bardo0007]

How can anyone eat this, it's disgusting.

[@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