Hard to believe that Britain once had too much milk sloshing about in its silos, but by 1981 Unigate possessed such a surplus of the white stuff it decided to make some of it into cheese. Not any old cheese though, but a soft cheese. In England! Yes, let’s beat those Frenchies at their own game! And to give it that authentic rustic tang, let’s call it Lymeswold, after a non-existent but (our marketing department tell us) quintessentially English market town. Sadly, the cheese was as authentic as its name, and the fledgling export liquidated faster than a brie on a hot tin roof.
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Agnetha
January 17, 2020 at 10:22 pm
This was launched on my father’s 60th birthday!
richardpd
January 18, 2020 at 12:05 am
I remember one programme about marketing mistakes featured Lymeswold.
It was a victim of it’s own success, as at first the demand outstripped supply & too many corners were cut trying to boost production while a larger factory was built.
By the time the new factory was completed the demand had dropped due to people being put off by the drop in quality.