Thieves with a nose for best cheese have pulled off a massive cheddar ripoff in London. Neal’s Yard Dairy said a con artist posing as a wholesale distributor for a prime French store had made off with 22 metric heaps (48,488 kilos) of award-prevailing cheddar well worth 300,000 British kilos ($390,000) earlier than the enterprise found out it were scammed and reported the theft on Monday. “The high financial fee of these cheeses possibly made them a specific goal for the thieves,” Neal’s Yard Dairy, a distributor, wholesaler, and retailer of British artisanal cheese, said in a declaration. Detectives at Scotland Yard and worldwide government are trying to find the culprits. Nearly 1,000 wheels of material-wrapped cheese from 3 makers have long past lacking: Hafod Welsh organic cheddar, Westcombe cheddar, and Pitchfork cheddar. The dairy sells a wedge of Hafod cheddar for 12.90 pounds ($16.70) for 270 grams (9.5 ounces).
