I’ve just realised that over the years my cheese to cracker ratio has significantly increased on the side of cheese. It used to be a nice neat sliver of cheese, with plenty of visible cracker around the cheese. But now I just mound it on like Richard Dreyfuss with the mash potatoes in Close Encounters. I’ve just got through a serious amount of cheese and only half a pack of poppy and sesame thins. It’s getting stupid, I just did my shopping yesterday morning(gorgonzola, stilton, goat, brie)and now I’ve got no **** cheese. I’ve got some philadelphia, but that doesn’t really count.

dunno why I typed that!..

You cheeseless wonder! 😀

I just did my shopping yesterday morning(gorgonzola, stilton, goat, brie)

I went shopping too yesterday morning too (bread, milk, a horse, baked beans)

Laugh it up. Y’know, It used to be you could come to this place with your problems and people would help you out.

I went shopping too yesterday morning too (bread, milk, a horse, baked beans)

Class hahaha.

No it’s true it’s not funny. 🙁

Plenty of people got problems with their crackers and cheese.

Kev – it’s not just the amount of cheese, it’s getting the cheese / cracker / wine balance synchonised … if you’ve got left with excess cheese on your plate, you need to get more crackers, but then you end up needing more wine to go with it. Trouble is that gets repeated – it’s hard to simultaneously finish your cheese, crackers and wine … so the inevitable effect is I end up a bit pissed and full 🙂

Right, off for a road ride now, so please can we have an easy mountain bike this evening cos myblegs will be knackered! We could bin off the post ride pub as I have crackers AND cheese here, plus cold beer and wine 🙂

proper serious answer there at last from Sue. just kinda dipping my toe out there into the pool of cheese/cracker experience.

I’m pleased to read that other people consider the cheese to cracker ratio and its not just me being neurotic, some people just throw cheese on willy nilly..

That’s a mightily impressive amount of cheese you’ve gotten through..

Kev – I finished the cheese after you left … hangs head in shame at my lack of willpower … and now have an excess of crackers.

Thanks for showing me round the Orme tonight – sorry I squeaked like a girl when my wheels left the ground!

I’ve decided one thin layer, covering 70-80% of the cracker looks “normal”. It’s different when you are eating someone elses cheese though, you can’t just scoff the lot, that’d be rude. There are definitley rules here somewhere…

edit: no worries Sue, cheers for the cheese 😀

Take the Liebniz approach:

110% Cheese coverage.

some people just throw cheese on willy

😯

some people just throw cheese on willy

forskinzola?

Tazzymtb; plumbing the depths and lowering the tone since, well, God knows when… 😐

sorry elf, I’ll get my coat….it’s time for a ride anyway

seven

What do you mean, ‘seven’? You can’t just come along and just proclaim ‘seven’, like that.

You have to explain yourself.

Always place what you think is a reasonable number of cheese “vehicles” on plate (board if aspirational) then add 33% more. (+ 50% more, if crumbly cheeses.)

A mixed cheese plate requires some clever integration, I think, but i failed maths – got a U.

nine…? 😕

Sorry can’t accept that as an answer Yunki. 😐

just up to the point the cracker, err, cracks under the weight???

paul

The correct amount is, in fact, as much as I cocking well like.

This might be a good time to resurrect the ‘cheese/celebrity’ game…

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I’m sorry but the original question is wrong. Surely what you meant to post was “How big a glass of red should I pour to accompany my overloaded crackers?”

You seem to hav the ratio of cheese to cracker spot on to me

The cheese should reach the edge of the cracker, but no further as that would be untidy. Personally I feel that any more than 2mm thick is unreasonably decadent.

3mm thick, whole surface coverage. Any less is a travesty.

I’m more a 6mm block in the middle leaving a decent amount of cracker space chap.

If it’s extra thick bit of cheese, I’ll stick a cracker on top and have a cracker sandwich.