QJM vol. 97 no. 10 © Association of Physicians 2004; all rights reserved.
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Of cheese and choice
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I am standing by the cheese cabinet in our local supermarket. (This is poetic licence, you understand. I am actually sitting at my PC, but my recent supermarket experience is so vivid that I have no difficulty reliving it.) I am in a state of high anxiety. In front of me are uncountable types of cheese. There is Canadian, Irish, Welsh, New Zealand and English. There is mild, mature, extra-mature, vintage and farmhouse. There is low fat, full fatpresumably high fat would be a marketing disasterand vegetarian. There are special cheeses in expensive waxy paper,