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Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar

by goodcanadian on 10/25/24, 5:54 PM with 90 comments

• by joshstrange on 10/25/24, 6:48 PM

  If you also saw the line:

  > Westcombe Dairy's maturing cave is equipped with cheddar-turning robot, nicknamed Tina the Turner

  And wanted to see it in action, here is a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDLJwmdonIo

• by zeagle on 10/27/24, 3:19 AM

  Fun cheese fact: the Fibroscan tool that checks for liver cirrhosis/fibrosis non invasively came out of a tool designed to assess elasticity of cheese wheels like the ones in the article!

  https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/rethinking-how-we-detect...

• by tonetegeatinst on 10/25/24, 6:09 PM

  The silent implication of a cheese black market is horrifying yet somewhat amusing.

  Imagine trying to buy stolen wheels of Parmigianino or German cheese.

• by makapuf on 10/25/24, 6:12 PM

  Let's start investigating Gromit!

• by tristramb on 10/25/24, 7:05 PM

  Another excuse for Michael Palin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A

• by ptek on 10/25/24, 6:53 PM

  I wonder if this is the start of a new criminal market and if there are any heavies involved or the big players involved?

  Any one know if any cheese is showing up on the dark nets?

  It's not illegal, illegal so it should get through the post easily and use refrigeration transport and less hassle if you get pulled over by the cops.

  Some countries like New Zealand are pretty strict with dairy imports so trying to get brunost from Norway...

• by JanSolo on 10/25/24, 6:03 PM

  Some high-impact reporting there from the BBC! Also contains my favourite quote of the day: "Westcombe Dairy's maturing cave is equipped with cheddar-turning robot, nicknamed Tina the Turner"

• by trhway on 10/25/24, 6:10 PM

  How one would launder all that cheese? Even say having some big retailer involved, some customers would probably still recognize that the cheese is from that batch.

• by edanm on 10/25/24, 9:07 PM

  Food heist!

  If anyone here is a fan of Brandon Sanderson but doesn't listen to his podcast with Dan Wells, called Intentionally Blank, you might enjoy it. And one of their things is to start off most episodes with a news story about a food heist - this apparently happens a lot.

• by throw0101a on 10/25/24, 6:48 PM

  See also perhaps:

  > The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist (French: vol de sirop d'érable du siècle, lit. 'maple syrup heist of the century') was the theft over several months in 2011 and 2012 of nearly 3,000 tonnes (3,000 long tons; 3,300 short tons) of maple syrup, valued at C$18.7 million (equivalent to C$24.1 million in 2023) from a storage facility in Quebec. The facility was operated by the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (French: Fédération des producteurs acéricoles du Québec, FPAQ) which represents 77 percent of the global maple syrup supply.[1]

  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei...

• by reneberlin on 10/27/24, 7:22 PM

  I thought they track them with RFID. Ratatouille has of course separated them before eating.

• by hulitu on 10/25/24, 6:31 PM

  Is it possible that Scotland Yard does not have sniffing dogs ?

• by IndrekR on 10/25/24, 6:44 PM

  300000£/22000kg≈13.6£/kg

  Not sure what they mean by “high value” here.

• by naikrovek on 10/25/24, 6:27 PM

  Oh no, me cheese

• by nutrie on 10/25/24, 6:17 PM

  Very British :)

• by wkat4242 on 10/25/24, 9:55 PM

  Reminds me of the story from the expanse lol