The famous chef told his 10.5 million Instagram fans to be on the lookout for truck loads of “very posh cheese” worth almost half a million dollars.
on TV by stripping food down to its essentials, got cheeky in an otherwise serious plea to his social media followers to help solve the mystery of a missing 22 metric tonnes of award-winning cheddar worth £300,000 stolen in a scam.
“If the deal seems too gouda to be true, it probably is! Let’s find these cheese stealers,” Oliver wrote.Cheddar, named after the village in south-west England where it originated, is the world’s best-known cheese because it lacks the protected status of other regional products like champagne and is therefore produced in many countries. There are, however, only a few real British cheddar makers, Oliver said.
The cheeses were from three makers: Hafod Welsh organic cheddar, Westcombe cheddar, and Pitchfork cheddar.Detectives at Scotland Yard and international authorities are searching for the culprits.
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