Almost half of all consumers say that traditional cheddar is their favourite variety while three in ten say that they only buy cheeses that they have tasted before.
The British Cheese Board, which carried out a survey into the nation’s cheese tastes, has urged consumers to broaden their minds and develop a more sophisticated palates.
Nigel White, the board’s secretary, said: “We know that the majority of people love their cheddar but we were surprised to find out that some people are actually scared of trying new cheeses. We strongly encourage people to be more adventurous with British cheese, and try something new alongside their usual cheddar.”
Mr White said that there are move than 700 named cheeses made on British soil.
A third of people questioned said that they try a new cheese less than once a year, and half of all consumers said that they habitually buy the same cheeses every week.
Half of consumers said they would only try a new cheese if they knew it tasted similar to a cheese they already liked.
Despite consumers’ apparent reluctance to try new flavors, sales of cheese are rising strongly. Household purchase of cheese rose by 3.5 per cent in 2010, according to Kantar Worldpanel. Last year around 372,700 tonnes of cheese were produced in the UK, and exports rose by 7.3 per cent to 112,000 tonnes.
Pupils at Burlington Junior School in Bridlington, East Yorks, have been asked to adopt the new hand signal to create a more relaxed classroom.
The children – aged eight and nine – have now been told to get the teachers attention by giving a thumbs up while cupping their hand.
But parents at the 360-pupil school have blasted the decision as “daft” after it was introduced at the beginning of this school year and say the clidren look like The Fonz, from the television comedy Happy Days.
Jeb Corliss (born March 25, 1976) is a professional BASE jumper, skydiver, and wingsuit flyer.
the cave was 100 feet wide.
He has jumped from sites including Paris’ Eiffel Tower, Seattle’s Space Needle, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jeb Corliss is also co-founder of 3 Triple 7, a clothing label.
He was also the original host of the Discovery Channel series Stunt Junkies, appearing in 13 episodes, but was fired by Discovery as a result of his arrest during an attempt to jump of the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
Jeb is currently working on a plan to jump out of a helicopter with his wing suit and land without a parachute.
Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light — a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature.
The physicists say that neutrinos sent 730 kilometers (453.6 miles) underground between laboratories in Switzerland and Italy arrived a fraction of a second sooner than they should have, according to the speed of light.
The report was published Friday by a group of researchers working on the so-called Opera experiment, based at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
“This result comes as a complete surprise,” report author Antonio Ereditato at the University of Bern, in Switzerland, said in a statement.
“After many months of studies and cross checks, we have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement.”
The scientists on the Opera project would continue their research, he said, but “are also looking forward to independent measurements to fully assess the nature of this observation.”
The finding would seem to challenge Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity, and the long-established law of physics that nothing can exceed the speed of light.
“It is very, very remarkable if it’s true,” said Professor Neville Harnew, head of particle physics at Oxford University.
“If this proves to be correct, then it will revolutionize physics as we know it.”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/world/europe/switzerland-science/index.html
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It was one kindergartener’s first show and tell, and now his mom has been arrested after he brought an ounce of crystal meth and a crack pipe from home to school for show-and-tell.
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The toll of Listeria food poisoning infections tied to contaminated cantaloupe rose sharply today, with health officials reporting 55 people sickened and eight dead in 14 states after eating tainted fruit.
Local, state and federal health experts are investigating the widening outbreak tied to Rocky Ford-region brand cantaloupe shipped by supplier Jensen Farms of Granada, Colo. On Sept. 14, the federal Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of cantaloupes linked to the multi-state outbreak of listeriosis. The affected cantaloupes were shipped between July 29 and Sept. 10 to at least 17 states and possibly more.
Testing has revealed that the victims are infected with four strains of Listeria associated with the outbreak. They include 14 victims in Colorado, 10 in New Mexico, nine in Texas, eight in Oklahoma, four in Nebraska and one each in California, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, West Virginia and Wyoming, according to a Wednesday report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths have included two in Colorado, one in Maryland, four in New Mexico and one in Oklahoma.
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