Yarg.

A blog about one of my favourite cheeses.

Praise Cheeses!

The yarg cheese is one of my faves cos it is a little bit odd, like myself. You get the impression that the yarg could be that one at the party what sits in the corner talking to the host's cat, wearing a wooly jumper that will be hipster fashion in a few months but isn't yet.

Yarg is wrapped in nettles. They can't sting you though, cos they've gone all mouldy and delicious! I eat the nettles - some don't, but this is a case where the rind is edible, so it's up to you.

Yarg is Cornish. That is, the cheese is Cornish. It ain't some Cornish word dredged up from the misty past of Cornwall where they all wore paint and did naked stuff at Romans. It's not an ancient dialect word or nothing.

It's just "Gray" backwards. Yarg was made up by Allan and Jenny Gray, which makes them Dairy Heroes, God Bless Them, and may their cheeseboard forever be stocked and their fridge have jam in it. Like a lot of very awesome stuff, Yarg is from the Nineteen-Seventies. Eat Yarg while listening to Led Zeppelin's later stuff, or The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars what is by David Bowie.

Yarg almost makes up for the Vietnam war but not quite.

 Above is a picture of Yarg. I did not take the picture. If you did, thank you for taking the picture, may I please keep showing it to the internet people? Otherwise I will be sad, but I will take it down.

The Important Bit

The taste! What does the yarg taste like, I hear you ask? (I don't really, as you're on the internet and I'm not psychic, I'm just being conversational and friendly, to give the illusion that what we is having here is dialogue, rather than the inept ravings of a cheese-loving lunatic with issues.)

Yarg tastes lovely and characterful, with a creamy, nutty flavour, especially where it is soft near the rind, and an undercurrent of tang. The centre of the cheese is like Caerphilly a bit, in that it is dryer and crumbly. It's sweet tangy nutty creamy and most of all I'd call it balanced. It is like the high-rope-walker of the cheese world. Very easy for a cheese-novice to eat and enjoy, even if the nettles seem a bit intimidating at first.

Eat some, cheese-bitches!