Cheese Knights Saint Agur and St Ilton battle in London's Baker Street for title of King of the Blue Cheese
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PASSERSBY in Central London have been treated to the bizarre spectacle of two mediaeval knights fighting to decide what is the best cheese.
The two warriors clashed in Baker Street on Thursday in a joust for the title of "King of the Blue Cheeses". In the blue, smelly corner was Saint Agur, representing the French cheese of the same name, and in the other blue corner was St Ilton, representing Albion's own Stilton.
The young St Agur threw down the gauntlet to the more experienced St Ilton at high noon, perhaps mixing up his Westerns with his Arthurian legends.
And in the end youth and vitality won out over age and experience as, in a tumult of swords and shields, St Agur vanquished his foe, who may have been hindered by his preposterous moustache and ponytail combination.
The strange publicity stunt was organised on behalf of the French cheese company Bongrain, which developed Saint Agur in 1988. The blue cheese, made from cow's milk, is from the village of Monts du Velay in the mountainous Auvergne region of France.
Stilton, by contrast, was first made in a Leicestershire farm in the 1700s and was made famous by an innkeeper, Cooper Thornhill, who fell in love with it in 1730.
Like Champagne, Stilton has been granted "protected designation of origin" status by the EU, so Only cheese produced in the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire, and made according to a strict code, may bear the name.
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