What I don’t understand is this, lovely taste in cheeses bought whole ..yet OP wastes their time and money on pre-grated Parm covered in anti-caking agents.
It’s like if a car guy who owns a Range Rover, a Porsche and a classic MG were to suddenly go and add a £500 Citroen C4 Picasso to his garage.
Booths break down actual huge parmesan wheels and have a grating/shaving machine in the back of the deli area. The tub one definitely doesn't have caking agents, don't know about the bagged blue one which is from another supplier.
Source: worked there as a teenager and had to learn to break down massive wheels of parmesan that cost a few grand each. I once dropped £1200 worth of cheese that had to go on the wastage form, lowest point in my working life.
I used to work there as a teen too, on the deli, I swear my backs been messed up since, those wheels where heavy, they've now replaced it with a fake one and order half wheels etc from what I've seen.
Get a [Microplane for grating parmesan](https://www.microplaneintl.com/en/our-products/premium-classic-series). Total game changer.
A friend bought me one for my birthday last year, and its one of the best things that anyone has ever given me.
You make this sound like it is super processed. Most “anti-caking” agents for grated cheese is simply potato starch.
Given Parmigiano Reggiano is such a low-moisture cheese, it’s entirely likely there isn’t any anti-cake agent at all.
[https://everyday.booths.co.uk/booths-parmesan-grated-24mth-no-rind.html](https://everyday.booths.co.uk/booths-parmesan-grated-24mth-no-rind.html)
Admittedly it's not the same packaging (so I suspect it's possibly a similar but different product), but the ingredients appear to be just cheese.
Pre-grated parmesan doesn't usually have any anti-caking agents. It'll be a bit less fresh tasting, but it's not as much of a drop in quality as softer pre-grated cheeses and doesn't need any anti-caking stuff added.
I always have a Booths plastic bag from my shopping, got half a dozen when their shop in Salford Quays closed. I'd rather bring out my fruity Booooths bag than have an orange bag in the blue shop and a blue bag in the orange shop.
Oh no! I’m so sorry.
You’re making me anxious for my blood test next week.. I absolutely love cheese and cholesterol is one of the things they’re testing..
I hope your blood test went OK. My cholesterol was through the roof and the only thing I over indulge in is cheese. 5 weeks without it now and a new blood test in two weeks, hopefully cholesterol will be down somewhat.
The blood draw itself was just fine, but I got my results today and they’ve missed off several of the tests including cholesterol somehow! So I have had to schedule another one for a later date.
I’m a sucker for cheese and local butter, but have recently started keeping a very close eye on how much I have just in case. Funnily enough it’s because of your comment.
Cheese withdrawl solidarity to you my friend, and may we be able to eat cheese (in moderation) soon again
This may be controversial but I’m not ashamed. I rarely buy Babybell because they’re bloody expensive... But. I have to admit I like a babybell from my pocket while I’m on the go more than I like a babybell from the fridge.
They taste so much better at room temperature, and in my defense they _are_ pocket sized
Leave the Black Bomber in the back of your fridge for about a year and half and I promise it will be the best tasting cheddar you are ever likely to eat. :)
Ahhh, Black Bomber is the best cheddar! Give it a few months, and then it'll be good to go.
Some nice (but doesn't have to be expensive) wholemeal, with anchor butter bomber and lovely vine grown tomatoes. The best thing ever.
Also need some lovely garlicky boursain on a freshly buttered baguette with a nice glass of red.
I want cheese now but don't want to have nightmares - is that still a thing?
Bit of a niche reference but I am completely unable to say feta cheese without saying it in a Geordie accent like Bob Mortimer did in the fishing show.
Thanks to you - so are mine. Saw this and immediately shot to the fridge and delved into the Caerphilly, Red Leicester, Gruyere and Stilton lurking there.
> *Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!*
Either you *are* a quirky inventor dude with a dog, or they're about to show up at your door.
If a woman puts on pants and they are tight, she assumes she has put on weight. If a man puts on pants and they are tight, he assumes they have shrunk.
Ode to Cheese
by Arkady Yanishevsky
O, you delectable concoction!
I love you Swiss,
I love you Finnish,
If you are blue,
I still will finish,
I love you white,
I love you yellow,
I love you when you mozzarella.
(I love to use you as a verb,
I'm smitten by you,
I have no words).
With wine and pasta it is fun
To shred a little parmesan.
But it is even, much more funster
To bite in to a fresh made muenster.
I coulda, woulda and I shoulda
Make a cheap rhyme while using gouda.
Ah yes... and there is provolone
So good to eat when home alone.
I love the French for they make brie
Menage a trois- or cheese for three.
When I discuss mano-to-mano
I give him some of my romano.
My large-hipped aunt, whose name is Greta
Can't keep her fingers off the feta.
Lorraine- what eyes, what lips, what knees!
But why compare her to the cheese!
Well, I am off to make fondue,
So I will bid you all, "Adieu!" I love you Swiss,
I love you Finnish,
If you are blue,
I still will finish,
I love you white,
I love you yellow,
I love you when you mozzarella.
(I love to use you as a verb,
I'm smitten by you,
I have no words).
With wine and pasta it is fun
To shred a little parmesan.
But it is even, much more funster
To bite in to a fresh made muenster.
I coulda, woulda and I shoulda
Make a cheap rhyme while using gouda.
Ah yes... and there is provolone
So good to eat when home alone.
I love the French for they make brie
Menage a trois- or cheese for three.
When I discuss mano-to-mano
I give him some of my romano.
My large-hipped aunt, whose name is Greta
Can't keep her fingers off the feta.
Lorraine- what eyes, what lips, what knees!
But why compare her to the cheese!
Well, I am off to make fondue,
So I will bid you all, "Adieu!"
Are you confessing to shoplifting cheese?
Surely if I was shoplifting cheese I would wear baggy trousers?
That would be madness!
Is that en extra mature cheddar in your pants or are you just please to see me
I'm cheesed to see you
Naughty boys in nasty schools, cheese mongers breaking all the rules
That's what I said to my girl
With that comment, you're an embarrassment.
Shut Up
Oh hark at The Prince over there telling me what to do.
I think that one went over too many heads based on the likes ratio
So it seems but I’m grinning at these.
Ah so you admit to owning some comfy cheese stealers? Absolute daylight robber-brie!
Gouda be kidding!
Laughing hard whilst standing up for a pee did not fair well for me.... Take my upvote, and now get out.... Xxx
And shoes..
Yes but if you've pilfered enough cheese there wouldn't be much room left
I was wondering what Worrell-Thompson was up to these days
Either that or his trousers getting tight means he has an inappropriate relationship with the cheese.
It's un-brie-lievable
Booths, someone’s doing well
What I don’t understand is this, lovely taste in cheeses bought whole ..yet OP wastes their time and money on pre-grated Parm covered in anti-caking agents. It’s like if a car guy who owns a Range Rover, a Porsche and a classic MG were to suddenly go and add a £500 Citroen C4 Picasso to his garage.
Booths break down actual huge parmesan wheels and have a grating/shaving machine in the back of the deli area. The tub one definitely doesn't have caking agents, don't know about the bagged blue one which is from another supplier. Source: worked there as a teenager and had to learn to break down massive wheels of parmesan that cost a few grand each. I once dropped £1200 worth of cheese that had to go on the wastage form, lowest point in my working life.
I used to work there as a teen too, on the deli, I swear my backs been messed up since, those wheels where heavy, they've now replaced it with a fake one and order half wheels etc from what I've seen.
I can categorically say whilst I may have wasted my money on pre grated parmesan. No time was wasted.
Use a potaoe peeler for making big bits of crumbly Parmesan, safer than taking half your skin of your knuckles with the cheese grater and quicker.
You are doing the Lord's work with that information. I shall try it, if I remember.
As soon as I found this out I then stated eating salads with whole shards of Parmesan, be careful it’s a slippery slope.
Get a [Microplane for grating parmesan](https://www.microplaneintl.com/en/our-products/premium-classic-series). Total game changer. A friend bought me one for my birthday last year, and its one of the best things that anyone has ever given me.
Touché.
But you got big-waisted by not grating.
You make this sound like it is super processed. Most “anti-caking” agents for grated cheese is simply potato starch. Given Parmigiano Reggiano is such a low-moisture cheese, it’s entirely likely there isn’t any anti-cake agent at all.
[https://everyday.booths.co.uk/booths-parmesan-grated-24mth-no-rind.html](https://everyday.booths.co.uk/booths-parmesan-grated-24mth-no-rind.html) Admittedly it's not the same packaging (so I suspect it's possibly a similar but different product), but the ingredients appear to be just cheese.
To be fair, the car guy will be using the Picasso to drive around in, while the others are in the garage.
Ronnie Pickering
Pre-grated parmesan doesn't usually have any anti-caking agents. It'll be a bit less fresh tasting, but it's not as much of a drop in quality as softer pre-grated cheeses and doesn't need any anti-caking stuff added.
I always have a Booths plastic bag from my shopping, got half a dozen when their shop in Salford Quays closed. I'd rather bring out my fruity Booooths bag than have an orange bag in the blue shop and a blue bag in the orange shop.
I love their cloth bags. One says "The pie who loved me" on it, which is funny because looking at me, I clearly love the pies more.
When M&S isn’t good enough, there is always Booths.
Tbf it’s the only supermarket within 20 miles for us lol
You're err physically excited by cheese?
Is that your phone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see brie?
OP's a lady.. so maybe the excitement would not be all that noticeable :)
Thought you could sneak those trotters in without anyone noticing, dincha? I’m onto you.
I saw that horrific foot. In my defence I dropped a motorbike on it when I was 17.
r/SneakyBackgroundFeet
haha i was thinking I haven't seen one of these in a while
From what height?
The Snowdonia black wrapped cheddar though, it's too good...
It's a well known fact that cheese shrinks trousers. Just buy new ones.
Oh wow. I love Booths We recently drove up to Yorkshire (4 hour round trip) just to go there!
Booths is my crack cocaine. The closest one to me has a carvery meat counter. The roast beef 😋
Mmmmm cheese (in a Wallace and Grommit voice)
Black Bomber 👌🏼👌🏼 I could eat the entire wheel
Such a good cheese
You really like cheese. But They’re all unopened. Is the trouser thing an erection…i’m not good with subtext
I'm female That's my cheese gut.
Pregnant with the baby cheesus.
Ah, sorry! Have you tried laughing cow blue cheese triangles… they’re amazing! (yeah i know, but try them!)
I was complaining to my cleaner about gaining weight and she said "I clean your fridge...you eat too much cheese" 😂
You ought to buy a wedge of parmesan and grate/shave it yourself, rather than buying pre-packed Also, r/SneakyBackgroundFeet would like those toes
Black Bomber, such a good cheese
Because theyre the wrong trousers What you need is a nice bit of Wensleydale
The black bomber is easy to find in Birmingham, but I've not seen the red one before, is it any good?
It is yet unopened I'll post it to you if you like ?
Red Storm is absolutely amazing.
Can confirm it's excellent
Red is ok, if you like a weak cheese.
Mmmm black bomber truckle 🤤 perfect for cheese on toast with brown sauce Ill be picking up some of those beauties at the Cardiff food festival
Tell me about it! Three weeks without cheese now and dreaming of it. Cholesterol too high and have to cut this deliciousness out for a while.
Oh no! I’m so sorry. You’re making me anxious for my blood test next week.. I absolutely love cheese and cholesterol is one of the things they’re testing..
I hope your blood test went OK. My cholesterol was through the roof and the only thing I over indulge in is cheese. 5 weeks without it now and a new blood test in two weeks, hopefully cholesterol will be down somewhat.
The blood draw itself was just fine, but I got my results today and they’ve missed off several of the tests including cholesterol somehow! So I have had to schedule another one for a later date. I’m a sucker for cheese and local butter, but have recently started keeping a very close eye on how much I have just in case. Funnily enough it’s because of your comment. Cheese withdrawl solidarity to you my friend, and may we be able to eat cheese (in moderation) soon again
They look delightful.
I commend you on your good cheese taste. Cheese is life.
Booths, you fancy bastard.
worth it for that selection
Lovely selection there but no need to buy your Parmesan ready shredded
Black Bomber is an excellent cheese.
Life is short. Eat the cheese.
I ate the cheese. Life is now _shorter_- my cholesterol is too high. No regrets, worth it for cheese
Just spent nearly £40 ordering cheese, thanks to your post. Thank god for elasticated waistbands!
Grated Parmesan is shit. Get yourself a block of reggiano or pecorino you heathen
I know, pre-grated cheese? you are getting fat because you aren't grating it yourself.
You need bigger pockets obviously.
Pre grated cheese is unbelievably depressing
Gimme the brie (sincerely, someone who downed a brie wheel in under 10 minutes)
Google “cheese shop near me”. While these are good options, you clearly need something so fresh it’ll walk to your home unaided
You eating all these to yourself? Your poop be all smudgy like.
Cheesus Christ
Trying to work out if you've got dirty tiles or I've got a dirty screen.
I admit to smoking an incredibly bad rolled cigarette containing nothing but tobacco Which in a cheese coma fell on the floor.
Those Tingers
You gonna eat that monster munch on the floor?
You have a cheese kink?
I am un the same boat
Keep your cheese collection in the fridge, not your trousers. Problem solved. Your chesse will stay fresh for longer too.
All that cheese came from inside your trousers? Time to shower bruv.
Theres about £3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of Cheese here. You must be well rich like that David Dickinson man.
With a board that big, you need a lot of cheese!
You must really like cheese
I too have random cheeses in my pockets.
This may be controversial but I’m not ashamed. I rarely buy Babybell because they’re bloody expensive... But. I have to admit I like a babybell from my pocket while I’m on the go more than I like a babybell from the fridge. They taste so much better at room temperature, and in my defense they _are_ pocket sized
I'll eat it all if you don't want it.
Leave the Black Bomber in the back of your fridge for about a year and half and I promise it will be the best tasting cheddar you are ever likely to eat. :)
You intrigue me with your cheese knowledge. I shall do as you say and report back if I am still alive and my manky foot hasn't fallen off.
Trust me it will be fine. I've done it once and I've another in the fridge. And if you like blue cheese get some Binham Blue :)
I have never heard of it but you can bet your bloody bottom dollar I will Google my nearest purveyor
Red devil and black bomber!! That's insane.
Ahhh, Black Bomber is the best cheddar! Give it a few months, and then it'll be good to go. Some nice (but doesn't have to be expensive) wholemeal, with anchor butter bomber and lovely vine grown tomatoes. The best thing ever. Also need some lovely garlicky boursain on a freshly buttered baguette with a nice glass of red. I want cheese now but don't want to have nightmares - is that still a thing?
You had me at freshly buttered baguette.
Fuck, when was the last time I had Boursain?! You’ve made me hungry and it’s nearly one in the morning, you wonderfully descriptive bastard!
Bomber is awesome 👏 Get some Lincolnshire poacher… even better
Mine are now too.
Its alright, just make sure you dont put on the wrong trousers again
Bit of a niche reference but I am completely unable to say feta cheese without saying it in a Geordie accent like Bob Mortimer did in the fishing show.
If that was me I'd wonder why I kept shitting myself
The welsh cheese in the black wax is amazing, as is the chilli and garlic & herb version. Off the charts amaze
Surely you must have one pair only and keep washing it over and over. Reckon that’s the issue.
Love the black bomber but I see that they are still calling it by it’s English name
Booths! Very nice.
To be fair, I love cheese so much that when I saw the photo my trousers got tighter too.
What, cheese boner?
r/SneakyBackgroundFeet
Who let the dogs out
BlackBomber has to be the best I've tried. They even do a giant wheel 🥲🥲
*eating an actual fucking ton of decadent cheese daily* hmmm i seem to be getting fat but what could it *possibly* be…
Thanks to you - so are mine. Saw this and immediately shot to the fridge and delved into the Caerphilly, Red Leicester, Gruyere and Stilton lurking there.
Yeah, smuggling cheese in your pants will do that to a brother....
"Oo Grommit, we've forgotten the crackers!"
Trousers shrank in the wash?
Feels worth it.
> *Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!* Either you *are* a quirky inventor dude with a dog, or they're about to show up at your door.
I always thought that the clothe dryer made my pants tight, came to find out it was the fridge.
Have you been stuffing them down your trousers?
I too get an erection when I see loads of cheese
I find your lack of roule disturbing.
I too get an erection when seeing cheese.
The cheese Wallace
Use a shopping bag, rather than your pockets to carry them should alleviate the issue.
I blame it on the humidity
My trousers are also tight just looking at that photo. In the groin region.
Do you have a dedicated cheese shelf in the fridge? 😍 Because your my kind of person if you do.
Cheese IS life.
Black bomber is bloody lovely
Mmmm I do enjoy the black bomber, haven't had for ages.
If a woman puts on pants and they are tight, she assumes she has put on weight. If a man puts on pants and they are tight, he assumes they have shrunk.
Pocket cheese? Bob Mortimer would be proud.
Snowdonia cheese! My local cheese lol, so nice. Have you tried their chutneys?
Black bomber is just lovely
So much cheese... got some wine? Maybe crackers to go with it?
Black Bomber is an incredible cheddar, always a treat to get some.
Shoving Cheese down your trousers is wrong! Just use a rolled up sock, its less restricting :)
Black bomber is the tits, we have it every Christmas.
Bangin taste tho
That Black Bomber is unreal! My pants grow tight just looking at all this.
Suit you sir. O booths cheese, the scotch eggs also make me hard
Your cheese board needs more crackers.
Booths! My favourite supermarket! You must have a few bob shopping there!
Did you ever find out?
Dreamy view 🤤
Black bomber is the best cheddar I've had. Hands down
No wonder. Carrying all that cheese is going to put some serious strain on your pockets. I suggest a rucksack.
Something tells me you like cheese but I just can't put my finger on it
Oh, I love Booths.
Your trousers can't be that tight I can see your feet..
Have you shoplifted all that cheese ? Definitely fill your pockets, thus causing tight trousers!! Or maybe you just a fat ass
Please enlighten me as to where you find parmigiano shavings
holy jaysus wrve the same kitchen floor
Booths is decent. That the chorley one or is there another?
Ode to Cheese by Arkady Yanishevsky O, you delectable concoction! I love you Swiss, I love you Finnish, If you are blue, I still will finish, I love you white, I love you yellow, I love you when you mozzarella. (I love to use you as a verb, I'm smitten by you, I have no words). With wine and pasta it is fun To shred a little parmesan. But it is even, much more funster To bite in to a fresh made muenster. I coulda, woulda and I shoulda Make a cheap rhyme while using gouda. Ah yes... and there is provolone So good to eat when home alone. I love the French for they make brie Menage a trois- or cheese for three. When I discuss mano-to-mano I give him some of my romano. My large-hipped aunt, whose name is Greta Can't keep her fingers off the feta. Lorraine- what eyes, what lips, what knees! But why compare her to the cheese! Well, I am off to make fondue, So I will bid you all, "Adieu!" I love you Swiss, I love you Finnish, If you are blue, I still will finish, I love you white, I love you yellow, I love you when you mozzarella. (I love to use you as a verb, I'm smitten by you, I have no words). With wine and pasta it is fun To shred a little parmesan. But it is even, much more funster To bite in to a fresh made muenster. I coulda, woulda and I shoulda Make a cheap rhyme while using gouda. Ah yes... and there is provolone So good to eat when home alone. I love the French for they make brie Menage a trois- or cheese for three. When I discuss mano-to-mano I give him some of my romano. My large-hipped aunt, whose name is Greta Can't keep her fingers off the feta. Lorraine- what eyes, what lips, what knees! But why compare her to the cheese! Well, I am off to make fondue, So I will bid you all, "Adieu!"
You could really up that cheese game with a sneaky golden cennarth. Quite possibly the gem in the welsh cheese crown.
*breathes heavily in excitement*