The Horror of Aldi’s Espresso Martini Cheese
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- Published on Nov 30, 2021
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Aldi product development: “We’re having trouble selling any of our wet martini cheese.”
Aldi marketing: “Right. Just put some espresso in it. And maybe some butterscotch crisp pieces.”
Aldi product development: “Why.”
Aldi marketing: “Because if you do, a fancy British man will sell it for us.”
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Nein nein nein nein nein! Chef, wir haben Espresso und Käse von der letzten Weihnachtsfeier über, was sollen wir damit machen? Kippt es zusammen und verkauft es den Briten als Gourmetware. Die essen auch Minzsoße zu Rinderbraten.
Exactly!!!!
”A fancy british man”
As someone who is working in Aldi's purchasing department I feel sort of ashamed for the product itself but more so happy about the 27 different stages of emotions it gave you 😄
Josias yes, Chobani yogurts does indeed make a coffee flavored yogurt. I bought it. It was not terrible. But it was not a fantastic yogurt flavor either and I personally will not purchase it again.
I want to know who suggested this -Aldi or the supplier ....
@Decespugliatore Nucleare found the dude who swallowed the red pill
Y’all are doing great Aldi has been crushing it last 5 years
@Decespugliatore Nucleare ????
There is an American “Artisan” cheese manufacturer called Sartori. They have a range of cheeses called Bell Vitano, and one of them is Espresso-Crusted. As someone whose blood type is Cheese +, I was extremely dubious. It’s actually amazing. (Quite a sharp cheese. No sweeties and not wet.)
For anyone interested, it’s BellaVitano and it’s from Wisconsin. There have a whole line, including Balsamic, Merlot, Raspberry - which I have tried and they were all delicious Black Pepper and Chai - which I have yet to try. BellaVitano is inspired by traditional parmesan cheese so expect something closer to Parmesan, but oooh so nice. Espresso is still my favourite.
Side note, I respect that James doesn’t use this channel to promote his own coffee. However, I tried his red brick espresso for the first time today and it was so amazing I immediately ordered more!
@nozrep you have to try it! 😊
wuhhh?! he has his own coffees? wtf he definitely should promote his own coffees on his own channel. That’s sorta the point of a person owning their own business?! Although yes, I would agree, there is a limit, and a right and a wrong way for a person to promote their own products on their own youtube channel. court of public opinion I guess, and everyone has their own, which is of course totally fine.
One of our baristas once came up with a signature "beverage" of a double espresso of a lightly roasted honey-processed Costa Rican coffee, a slice of a very particular parmesan cheese, and a small dish of a strong floral honey... Honestly the whole thing was genuinely delicious, probably because the three elements were all quite strong and happened to have quite complementary flavours.
Leave it for a week in a plastic bag and try again.
@Josias Khalil Vodka?
Parmesan pairs well with dark robustas or sumatra coffee. Spicy tingly. This? this is a mc donalds mess level. Terrible idea. Vodka doesn't mix well with lactones.
James just laughing at wet cheese is my new favorite thing. Thanks Aldi!
I was laughing literally out loud through most of this video. Tasting notes felt honest and followed by genuine surprise, best kind of notes. Also Wallace nod, yes, thank you.
James, you have got to have the highest self-esteem of any TheXvidr. If I put myself through some of the stuff you do to yourself I'd have died of anxiety years ago. Thanks for being such a resilient TheXvidr!
In Finland we have something called leipäjuusto, leipä=bread juusto=cheese, it is very mild. It is made by making the cheese curd, draining it and then flattening it on a board in a circular blob and then roasting it on a open fire. Most commonly it is served as is with cloudberry jam, but there are couple other ways to prepare it, one being cut into small cubes and put into coffee. The coffee can be sweetened and have a bit of milk in it, the coffee is drank first and then the leipäjuusto is eaten. Leipäjuusto does not melt, it softens.
I have heard leipäjuusto be called squeaky cheese, because it squeaks when chewed.
just a side note leipäjuusto is not same as juustoleipä, juustoleipä is bread with cheese on top of it or a cheese sandwich.
Aldi is 100% just trolling James at this point and loving it.
Trader Joe’s and Aldi’s started out together. The brothers inherited Aldi’s and had a disagreement over selling cigarettes. Trader Joe’s was born when one brother left to start his own chain.
@AFA PDT Council 61 PODCAST Joe does not trade here
@Rob Stein
Realistically, parents and schools in the US would count this as a vegetable.
I like how low I set the bar for this tasting based on the title, and yet by the end I somehow managed to come away even more horrified at the prospect of ever tasting it.
I am grateful to Aldi for making this video possible, in the hope that there will be many more like it in the future!
"... the most delicious of all the caramels" hahahahaha - that lifted my morning. Neither butterscotch nor coffee belongs in cheese (in my world) - I certainly wouldn't pick it up from the shelves instore. It looks absolutely awful :D. Keep up the reviews, most enjoyable.
"It is a wet, slightly dirty tasting cheese, of questionable origin"
So, what you're saying is...this is the greatest cheese discovery of our time. A modern day Brie de Meaux.
I should buy it in bulk.
Thanks, James!
“Now I don’t get to keep this cheese. I will be giving it away to one of my Patreon supporters. They are the ones that fund me to buy these stuff and enable me to give you an honest opinion.”
As a Patreon supporter James, I am very upset that one of us will not be getting the chance to get this cheese.
Ha!
It’s why I joined patreon
I wanted to give this comment approval, but the 666 like seemed somehow that anything I could add would only make it worse
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Nothing better than second-hand wet cheese
I have actually tried cheese and coffee together and liked it. But I come from Sweden (i didn't know it was a Scandinavian thing... but maybe). It sounds really weird but is actually surprisingly good; dipping cheese in honey and then in ground coffee. The cheese should not be too aged, we just used the same we have on our toasts.
It hasn’t really been a stellar weak in the US so far and the look on your face when you opened that package made me laugh out loud.
So, thanks for that!
Thanks, James. Received my bag of coffee with the beautiful card inside today. And yes, I did share it with a friend (actually gave him the entire bag since I currently don't have any brewing equipment due to recently moving to my current country of residence).
Probably the best James Hoffmann review yet, certainly in the category Wet coffee cheeses
Hey there James! First of all, thanks for all the videos and all your work. You definitely inspired me to go deeper into the wonderful world of roasted coffee beans!
About coffee and cheese... Well, I don't think anybody should combine the two in a product, but I do think you can enjoy coffee and cheese together. It's not something I do every day, but I actually love it!
I've never been more captivated and excited by anybody eating a piece of cheese before. The tension in the room was palpable 😅
Once again, James takes one for the team. So much gold as usual 💛
I was smiling the whole way through this video and even laughing with you 😂
James, what is your favourite cheese?
3:35 to see the five stages of grief, plus like 9 new stages that are specifically reserved for James when he tastes coffee-flavored products. It's like shrimp colors but for pain.
man this got me so hard, I'm in tears
The slow zoom on this moment really took it from great to outstanding.
I like how his face goes from "Prepared to be disgusted" to "Not really as disgusted as I thought I'd be" to "What the fuck is this lol" to "Just... Why? Why does this exist?"
Absolutely hilarious. And the hint of insanity and hopelessness is fascinating.
I love how much this man can laugh just at the existence of a piece of cheese
Reminded me all kinds of soups that are somehow presented as "cappuccino" something, even while they dont actually have any coffee in it (thank god). A lot of them have some slightly questionable components.. Remember having salty lavender one. Was definitely interesting. Also not something I would be that much inclined to try again.
I have watched this video over and over again (almost daily since it came out). I love it so much.
Huge props for making it all the way through without saying "moist" even once, by the way.
As much as I appreciate the video, and James' grim description of that concoction, I was never ever EVER going to be in any danger of actually eating that......stuff. (let's call it stuff) Thanks for your service though, James.
In Minas Gerais (Brazil), we typically drink coffee with cheese or pão-de-queijo (cheese bread) in the afternoon. It is usually paired with Minas cheese (a milder Comté-style cheese with no crust) and honestly the pairing is absolutely great. The cheese is not overpowering, so the delicate acid and savory notes compliment certain filter-style roasts really well. In fact, in São Paulo there is a café called Coffee Lab where they make some coffee tasting experiments, one of which is pairing a cup of a light roasted fruity Brazilian coffee in a v60 with both chocolate and Minas cheese. The extent to which the cheese pumps up the flavor and aroma of the coffee is seriously astonishing.
As a Brazilian, I LOVE Minas Cheese. When I lived there, I would buy 2kg every week.
My other favorite cheese is Dominican Cheese, don’t know why but I love those circle cheeses they have
im afraid of everything you said by still very curious. Will try it if i ever visit Brazil
Someone needs to send him a pack of pao de queijo
Minas cheese is completely different then most of the cheeses those of us who grew up in the US or UK recognize as cheese or would eat regularly. Be it savory or paired with Goiabada in a Romeo and Julieta its flavor is so mild its almost impossible to lead to a bad pairing or experience. In Greece as well, honey and feta on phyllo is a staple to have with coffee for breakfast and its glorious. A big chunk of extra sharp cheddar is probably not the best thing to pair with a cup of Bourbon Amarelo.
I have absolutely no problem pairing cheese with coffee. Quite tasty. Both are breakfast foods, both are snack foods, etc .. so they go. Maybe with something sweet too. BUT ... I prefer to mix them in my tummy and not mash em all together beforehand like Aldi have done!
Tiramisù (italian dessert) which typically consists of mascarpone cheese, savoiardi biscuits, espresso, eggs, sugar, and cacao is delicious. I do suggest you try it if you haven't James!
I can say for sure, one of my favorite things is a cheeseburger with drip coffee at a diner. Hands down my favorite burger approach is always a burger and coffee. Since there's always cheese on the burger, I guess I like cheese and coffee.
This is the most enjoyment I've had from a TheXvid video in a very long time. Your bravery is much appreciated, James.
not the review we needed; this is the review we deserved....thank you for the Holiday gift champ, keep them coming! this was a moment of joy
Have you tried coffee cheese? I spend lots of time in Northern Sweden with the amazing Sami people, they eat cheese that they put into their strong black coffee, it absorbs the coffee flavour and is actually quite delicious as you finish the coffee! I was sceptical but in top of a mountain in the cold it's perfect! Not sure where the history is from and whether it is much wider known or traditional to the Sami but its worth a try, the stuff I have had is reindeer milk based.
In icy cold weather many warm drinks become delicious.
Like Tibetan Yak Butter Tea?
I’ll say that I have been in situations where I have drunk coffee, martinis, wine, and eaten cheese in a very short amount of time and still this seems a wee bit too consolidates for my taste, even with my love for efficiency. -Chris
I have decided that I would rather watch James eat or drink something he doesn't like more than any "informative" video of his. His facial expressions alone are hilarious. You can turn off the sound and still enjoy watching!
Actually coffee and cheese can be a thing!
In case you want to have a look at a better version of this idea, you should try Sartori Bellavitano Espresso.
All bellavitano is perfect and beautiful.
Dear James, never stop tasting weird coffee products, your mild manner contempt and/or bafflement is so delightful
This is the absolute best cheese I have ever had. It was on offer for 99p, I tried it and had to go back for more unfortunately they only had one left- gutted. Well done Aldi !
There's an Espresso Belvitano, but I believe that's actually just the wheel coated in fine coffee grounds. It's alright with how it works, but I like their bourbon variant far more.
I actually enjoy having a piece of cheese, usually Manchego, with coffee, especially if it's a dark roast, as the sweetness of cheese complements very well (at least in my opinion/mouth) the bitterness of coffee.
It's the same principle as in caffe latte or cappuccino, just a different texture and more pronounced flavour.
Hoffman is a comedic genius. 7 minutes of pure gold.
Now I have a craving for cheese....
"The most delicious of all the caramels." Beautiful throwaway line...
"I dont know why aldi hate coffee or me or you potentially" is definitely my favorite line
Felt like something ashens would say.
"... slightly dirty tasting cheese..." is the winner tho
"I have opinions forming..." is my favourite.
There is a cheese in the US from Utah I believe called barely buzzed. It's a cheese where on the rind is rubbed with espresso and lavender. It's quite good actually.
I literally laughed out loud at this video. Thank you James for defiling your mouth for our amusement 🙃
There's a crystallizing moment at exactly 3:43 where James looks straight into the camera, into our eyes, mid-chew and regrets every life choice that has led him here... 🤣🤣🤣
I've had an espresso-rubbed hard cheese once or twice that's been good! It's not incorporated into the body of the cheese but it adds interest to the rind, and I appreciate that.
Isn't tiramisu (if made with mascarpone) technically a cheese and coffee combination? If so coffee and cheese can clearly work together, given the right circumstances
Mascarpone tastes like whip cream though. It's very basic, just fatty and nice. Honestly might be comparable to clotted cream (i use mascarpone instead of clotted cream on scones cos you can't get clotted cream in Sweden). That's perfectly fine with coffee liqueur.
Mascarpone as a cheese is more sweet, dense cream thing thats quite different from every other cheese. So thats where the difference lies
Tiramisu is a whole dessert which includes coffee and cheese with other ingredients, but in separate layers as a pairing. It does not mix the coffee into the cheese with loads of added sugar and claim to still be an item that belongs on a cheese plate.
I think cheeses can be excellent companions to coffee especially fresh, soft cheeses in desserts, but I agree with James that this monstruous product sounds plain vile.
@MrKstreet Does it then just become salsa?!
Cheese: a food made from the pressed curds of milk. | Therefore, accurate
While tomato is a fruit, it is not a popular ingredient in fruit salad . . .
James has to be one of the funniest men in Britain! He is just hilarious and cracks me up, constantly! What a brilliant channel - bravo James!
Thank you, Aldi, for making this video possible!
I have watched unnatural amount of hoffman videos and this is the first time I am seeing him smiling. Good job Aldi
yoo on the subject of cheese and coffee, I'd love to see James try Bread Cheese, think the scandinavian word is juustoleipä. , and You can dunk it in coffee. The way it was served to me was cubes of it in the bottom of a mug of coffee, and while I'm typically a bit of a black coffee purist, ngl, it was fantastic. you drink the coffee, and just get a slight buttery addition to the coffee flavors, not offputting at all. The cheese doesn't melt, so at the end of the cup, you just go in for the cubes, and they have absorbed a bit of coffee flavor, warmed up and become semi-soft, squeaky, and cheese-curd like. (best way for me to describe it.) I found the whole experience fascinating.
Everyone, let's make this James's most-viewed and highest-liked video. This is his channel now. EAT THE WEIRD THINGS.
I love eating cheese and drinking coffee at the same time!
I like filter coffee, French press, and specialty coffee. I find there is something quite special happening with coffee and cheese together.
I should say, I'm French (obviously), so I've been trained.
Didn't stop laughing and smiling for the last 7+ minutes. Thanks James.
James' face as he tastes the cheese is the best reaction ever.
I don't think I've ever seen James so happy as when he is unpackaging this cheese :)
What do we think the odds are he had to edit out a "looks like baby poo" reference?
@Dries V. I've never seen him laugh
right!? I was also thinking I've never seen him laugh like this before
You should see him looking at the Weber Workshop grinder!
That's not happiness: it's recognition by the existentialist protagonist of the inherent Absurdity of human existence.
Wow. I've been persuaded to try some a few cheeses with questionable additions, most of them were quite unpleasant, but that sounds truly revolting! The expression on your face said it all! 😂
This video had me smiling the whole time. Thanks, James 😊
Apparently you've never heard of swedish coffee cheese... Its a special cheese that is sliced and put in your coffee and eaten after/while you drink your cup
I would love to see him make perfect coffee on a building site in the middle of nowhere where you have an outside tap, instant coffee ☕️ in the freezing cold 🥶. When you are on a cement mixer all day.
I can see exactly how this got created. "Customers want a sophisticated cheese, let's get out the word board." "European, espresso, tuxedos, martinis." Send that down the food nerds. Exasperated food scientist throws together some passable but still horrible coffee vodka cheese. "It's too bitter." FFS, I'll put some butterscotch in it and an extra dose of sugar for good measure. "Perfect".
You nailed it
😄
Thank you for trying a cheese I would never have been brave enough to try.
I didn't think there'd be more of a coffee nerd than I and I must say you are absolutely amazing and your channel is amazing, your content is amazing and this sentence is a run-on.
I know we’re in for fun when James spends most of the video just chuckling, despite himself.
Dear James... your sense of humor is really unique when talking about coffe stuff. You made my day once again!
In the Netherlands there is this hype where you dip a piece of cheese (Gouda, blue cheese, goat cheese) in honey. Afterwards you dip it in freshly ground coffee. It varies from espresso to light roast. Interesting to try James!
I came to say the same thing - it sounds wild, tastes wonderful. Cheddar or Gouda are the best ones.
I've seen a few fairly flash places put this pairing on a cheese board, I've been served it personally at two different vineyards here in New Zealand and seen it on menus elsewhere. Cracker or bread, blue cheese, honey comb, little sprinkle of fresh ground coffee. Honestly it works really well, well enough that I encourage people to try it.
@Ben Jewell I seen this too. I've also tried it and it's surprisingly good.
It's not a hype but some places do this.
A friend and me once ordered a cheese board at a bar and the bartender gave us some very finely ground coffee to dip one of the cheeses in. I cannot for the life of me remember where this was or who this was with, but I definitely had some explaining to do when I drunkenly dunked my midnight cheese piece snack into the container of the coffee grinder as my horrified boyfriend looked on. With a mild, quite young cheese it can be a great combination as the creamy, salty cheese rounds out the earthy tones of the coffee.
Could it be that ‘hype’ is a bit too strong a word..? Never heard of this and I would have liked to have kept it that way
I often wash down a cheese toastie in the morning with a cup of coffee but never did I think I should ever mix the two
what you do is also mixing the two. Just a different method of mixing the two. My method is cheese, bacon, and egg breakfast tacos with coffee, as millions of people in southern and southwestern USA do, every day.
I've had coffee with cheese and crackers accompanying it. Usually cheddar. I don't mix it or anything, though. And I don't think coffee with breakfast or a sandwich is too terribly uncommon, either.
Actually mixing the two... Can't say it sounds disgusting, but it doesn't sound all that interesting either. Maybe it would have a bulletproof coffee kinda vibe, seeing as that uses butter, which should be comparable in terms of texture from fat. Never had that either, though.
As a savoyard, It felt good to see an opinel in one of James's video. My life is (almost) complete 🙂
So in the US we put a lot of flavourings in Stilton cheese and call them dessert or pastry cheeses (I have only heard one person call them that but they swear other people do too), and a pretty good one is coffee chocolate cherry.
Aldi costumer: "So what's on my shopping list today...I need coffee, cheese, some alcoholics..."
Aldi employee: "We got just the right thing for you!"
Aldi "costumer" - so bad you have to go in disguise ....
ROFL 🤣
Only if it has my favorite type of caramel, though.
Coffee Collective once did a coffee cheese, and it was actually delicious!
My wife’s grand parents, who lived in south Louisiana their entire lives, grew up eating a slice of sharp cheddar cheese with their coffee. Definitely not my thing even if it is a thing.
But that ASMR experience of the cheese knife peeling off that wet chunk of cheese was really…. something.lol
In Finland we have this thing called "Leipäjuusto" (bread cheese), that is supposed to to be cut in cubes and put in your hot cup of coffee. The cheese softens from the heat and absorbs some of that coffee flavor. You're supposed to fish it from the cup with a spoon. I think it tastes really nice.
I so do hope this gets a sequel.
James! Microwave that cheese for a minute, then eat it.
"It's not hard. It's not soft. It's just wet." A damp dirty tasting cheese, this is a public service warning.
"It's not hard. It's not soft. It's just wet." thats what she said
seems similar to tofu. maybe it'd help to press the cheese with cloth lol
this whole thing just made me realize I'd never seen James smile before
“Café con queso” it’s a Puerto Rican thing. 😉 I was watching this video and my wife who is Puerto Rican heard you say “who thinks coffee and cheese is a thing?” And she said she grew up with it. Some people eat the cheese with the coffee others put the cheese IN the coffee! Lol! 😂
BellaVitano does an espresso grounds rubbed parmesan that is absolutely amazing! Coffee + cheese can be good when done right
oh my god now i want james to try and find the best coffee cheese combo and see if he can make coffee and cheese a thing
Aldi definitely wins - James took three bites of that thing. A lot of other coffee-flavoured stuff he tested did not make it that far
@Covenant-R then this video should be under 2 minutes ;-)
At this point James is to coffee what lock picking lawyer is to locks.
Thank you for your dedication to suffering. Loved the video thank you. Laughing til the tears came out! 🤣 I'll look out for a product recall announcement for "a wet slightly dirty tasting cheese of questionable origin" and "it's like no cheese I've ever tasted."
The one coffee and cheese combo example I can think of is having coffee with one's dessert, when one's dessert is a cheesecake. And yes, I am distinctly aware that the intent is not to combine the flavours, but contrast them, and further, cheesecake is quite far from being something one might reasonably call cheese, but that's the closest I can get.
I appreciate the full send on the first bite. I would have definitely gone with a smaller bite.
In Finland there is a coffee-cheese pairing that is actually works! Bits of a roasted fresh cheese called leipäjuusto (a direct translation would be bread cheese, people like to call it squeaky cheese because, well, it’s squeaky) are softened up in coffee so they become soft, warm and taste a bit like coffee. It sounds a bit suspicious but it’s quite pleasant and tasty!
At this point I think brands are releasing absurd products just so James will make (hopefuly highly successful) videos about them, in a very elaborate reverse-promotion scheme.
Aldi Wins! :) Around Halloween I saw Pumpkin spice cheese at Aldi which sounded gross...and I didn't fall for it. :)
One thing I looked to see if you tried but didn't see it is cacao coffee substitute. I haven't tried it yet, but the brand I hear most about is Chio Bru. Would be interesting to know what you think.
I'm from Italy, and here we do a quick dessert involving ("cheese") ricotta, coffee and Sugar, It Is quite delicious in my opinion.
Bread cheese and very mellow coffee has a special charm, but generally, I agree. You're a legend for raw-dogging that mystery brick lol
As a german, I feel like I need to apologize for this. Aldi got me once with another cheese crime. Mint Cheese, yeah it tastes like ist sounds like...🤢
There is indeed a Northern Finnish-Swedish tradition of serving cheese in coffee. It's kind of, well, utterly weird: squeaky bits of cheese floating around in your coffee (roasted and served, as northern tradition has it, utterly pitch black), with the added, eh, benefit of an oily tint in your cup. It is not so much a grande, celebratory tradition but rather a way of, no matter your fortune, making sure you always had something somewhat luxurious (read: fat, creamy) to serve alongside, or here indeed inside, a cup of coffee, should a guest ever happen upon your farm. The modern take is to simply eat the cheese separately as if a piece of cake, with some cloudberry jam, alongside a cup of very black coffee. I heartily recommend you try it out!
@Samuel Wong I make leipajuusto with goat milk. You can sometimes find a similar product in stores across the US and several other countries.
Scandinavians. I see why many of you need to escape to Italy or France at least once a year 🤣🤪 no offense intended though, love you guys 🤗
Dang, I should have scrolled before commenting about what I think is the exact same thing. I was exposed to it by a relative, and putting cubes of cheese into coffee sounds so weird, but I loved it, and wish I could get it where I live.
Is this bcuz it's just TOO COLD to hold a piece of cheese in your bare hand, and holding cheese in a mitten results in fuzzy cheese?
(Especially if the cheese is sweaty to begin with!)
Or perhaps sweaty cheese just freezes too quickly while in the tundra?
So they simply toss the cheese in their coffee cups!
Wow.
If so...
I think I'd rather poke my cheese bits with a pointy stick, and warm it on the fire than resort to having my coffee hold the cheese for me...
But that's prolly just me...
I wonder if the tradition came from up north. The mongols still eat cheese + tea (strong tea, sometimes brewed in water + milk) and many Sami traditions are decidedly similar to Mongol.
I never thought I'd see a product like that. Trust Aldi to come out with that ... not even sure what you would call it 😐
Having a cup of coffee with fresh bread and butter and the brown cheese is just awesome. They taste extremely well together!
Coffee and cheese go together but not in one, I love when you cut pieces of finnish squekycheese in a cup of coffee!
Of course Aldi won!!! For a non-sponsored video you said Aldi just too many times. In any case, these reviews of weird things are always a pleasure to watch.
In Finland we have "Leipäjuuso", that translates to bread cheese, which is a squeaky soft cheese that some people dunk in their coffee before eating. Ive also seen "recipes" where they marinate the cheese in coffee. Traditionally we eat it with cloudberry jam though.
I once heard marketing person say that companies do this weird tasting novelty things and variations of things in order to sell more of the original. People will react with "eew I don't want that, I want the original" when they see something like banana flavored caviar (which was a real product).
As someone dating a cheese monger, I feel compelled to inform you of a truly delicious coffee cheese, Barely Buzzed by Beehive Creamery. Unsure if you can get your hands on it in the UK, as it is a Utah creamery, but I suggest you try it if you can!
I was looking to see if anyone else commented on Barely Buzzed. I wholeheartedly agree that it is a fantastic cheese.
Sometimes, you might have a cheese board for dessert, and also a coffee, although frankly a dessert wine would be a better match.