"In the late 17th century, the cheese of Suffolk had a terrible reputation. Suffolk bang was said to have a meagre flavour and was so rock hard – “harder than the devil” – that it needed to be warmed up to become vaguely edible. This disappointing foodstuff was known as a “flotten” cheese because it was made from skimmed milk. But the cheesemakers of the county insisted that it wasn’t their fault their cheese, once highly regarded, had “grown into disrepute”. In 1690, they wrote a petition to parliament complaining that the cheesemongers of London had forced them to skim ever more cream off their milk to make butter, the result being that Suffolk’s cheeses had become “only fit for slaves”."
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