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I imagine it will be smuggled out of the country immediately. No cheese buyer at a large retailer in the UK would touch it. It’s not worth the risk. Similarly
by tomwphillips 2y ago
I imagine it will be smuggled out of the country immediately.
No cheese buyer at a large retailer in the UK would touch it. It’s not worth the risk.
Similarly at the artisan end of the market, it’s a small world (like the article says) - why would you risk your personal and commercial reputation buying stolen goods? You wouldn’t.
- thimabi 2y agoI wonder how they are going to smuggle such a gigantic quantity of cheese out of the country. It’s kind of hard to move 22 tonnes of anything without raising suspicion, and doing so in a hurry poses additional challenges.
- jl6 2y agoI imagine they would have to do it Caerphilly.
- 3guk 2y agoDamnit, you got me with that one !!
- gazook89 2y agoI’m not disagreeing with you, but 22 tonnes is about 48,000 lbs, which is about the limit (or just over) of what a regular semi trailer can haul (at least in the US). So moving it likely isn’t much issue, but the selling it likely is
- erehweb 2y agoBut once you've got it out of the country, where then? Would French cheese buyers take it? Or do you have to go to Russia?
- kjs3 2y agoThere are many places where "this is a highly prized luxury commodity from the West" is more than enough to create a market, and legally lax enough to be minimal risk.