The price of cheese
The Financial Times (18th April) has reported that there is a cheese crisis. The FT sees things in economic terms so they are looking at a very sharp increase in the US market price for cheddar cheese. It has gone up by around a third since the start of 2021.
In Europe the price of Mozzarella has gone up 44% since November 2021, while UK cheddar prices have risen by 55% in the last two years. There is a ‘tight’ milk supply for cheese and prices of fuel of course are considerably up.
The FT reports this is leading to an increase in cheese thefts. Recently 1600 kilos of cheese were stolen from a Dutch dairy farm. Parmesan thefts, a perpetual issue in Italy are increasing.
While cheese was a staple of the working class diet in England in the first half of the nineteenth century, good quality cheese has never been a cheap item. Cheese mongers were amongst the Yeomanry that rode at Peterloo in 1819. Boris Johnson(as Churchill who liked French cheese) is a cheese lover but no doubt gets someone else to pay for his supplies…
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