Day sixty.....

Bang Bang!

In a small farm in Dymock, Gloucestershire a cheese is made. This cheese is called Stinking Bishop. Stinking by name and nature alike. It gets the rancid odor from being washed in perry during the riping process. What is this perry?

Well not exactly. But it is made from fermented Stinking Bishop pears, in a similar way to scrumpy is from apples. No wonder it smells so vile. It is likened to the French Epposises cheese that is banned on french public transport. But the name "Stinking" actually has nothing to do with the smell of the cheese nor the fermented pear. It comes from one of the breeders of the Moorecroft pear Mr. Bishop. He was an angry man with a fiery temperament. Much like another famous cider maker....

Bean. Of the famous trio, Boggis, Bunce and Bean. He was a wily cider maker from the Roald Dahl novel The Fantastic Mr Fox. Maybe its the fermented fruit that drives these men to angry ways. One of the most famous stories about the ugly temperament of Mr Bishop was that he was frustrated at his kettles lack of pace of heating the water and in retaliation he shot it. Imagine the scene....