Pineapple on pizza? We’ll allow it. Cranberries in cheese? You can pass. Figs in a salad? Sure. Piña Colada flavoured cheese? Uh….. Let us think about that for a second.
Yes. It’s real. Piña Colada Wensleydale, along with its siblings Espresso Martini Wensleydale and Peach Bellini Wensleydale, is hurtling towards us at an alarming rate, flung from the Aldi shopping baskets of the British public. Though Aldi triumphs with their Organic Prosecco (check out our rating here), we’re not totally confident these cocktail flavoured cheeses are going to be as much of a hit.
If you are a fan of pineapple on pizza (a highly political debate in which we are remaining a neutral party), cheese and pineapple together may not be so alien to you at all. You might even be excited for this cheese to come out. The Peach Bellini doesn’t seem too awful either, with dried peaches a fairly typical accompaniment to a cheese board anyway. Perhaps Aldi may have even made a winner! Oh, wait...
Espresso Martini Wensleydale. All one needs to know is right there, in that nightmare inducing title. Embedded with chocolate covered coffee beans, there seems to be no feasible scenario where this cheese is appetising. Unless, for that matter, you already coat coffee beans in chocolate and stick them into your Wensleydale. In that case, congratulations and welcome to heaven.
Even with the utter strangeness of these flavour combinations, we’re actually quite excited they’re here. The entire collection feels like an idea Wallace of Wallace and Gromit jotted down after a hard night of 2 for 1 at the bar. The only question that prevails is this - are we now approaching cheese flavoured cocktails?
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