I thought there was a family feud several years ago, and they were no longer producing (or exporting) anything.
I would be delirious with joy to find out I’m wrong.
Further digging suggests you’re probably not wrong. The website is no more.And all the dated references are a few years old. See if you can find Gubbeen where you are. It’s the same semi-soft texture and made in the same part of souther Ireland.
Oh, I posted about Gubbeen here recently. Love it.
If you really want to do this cheese degustation, try to make sure that the cheeses are vacuum sealed and doesn’t smell, you can try to put them in the check in luggage. Get rid of the packaging that said raw. Of course you shouldn’t bring a lot. The worst that will happen is they trash them.
I’ve just returned from California to Paris via Dublin (transit), nobody check the luggages at all in Dublin nor Paris, and I had some beef jerky in my cabin bag. Honestly the custom are more interested to see if you bring goods that they can tax.
One time I saw an African woman crying in CDG airport with an opened whole luggage lined with plastic sheets and dozen pieces of raw meat. The custom people had a hard time explaining to the lady that they had to confiscate and trash the whole luggage.
I used to watch an Australian TV series about their customs/border people. Seemed that almost every episode there was someone arriving to visit relatives with a case full of food from the “old country”. Or if not the suitcase story, then someone pretending to be a tourist but clearly intending to work, without a visa.
I saw US Customs take a lovely whole cured ham from an Irish lady headed to visit American family as she was leaving Shannon.
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That would be $150 of cheese down the drain. Not a risk I’m prepared to take. There are people here I can do the tasting with (and over the years I’ve held several such tastings in Cambridge so I have victims in mind). That’s what I’ll do.
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Ouch! US are very sensitive with meat import.
I’m hoping to smuggle in some Sichuan chili sauce next summer 
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Is this forbidden?
I only brought with me some chocolate when heading to US.
Too bad for them. Blame their government!!!
I thought any food products were a big no 
, but TBH I haven’t yet done my ReSeArcH — figured someone here would know 
Indeed! When you’re traveling back to the US from South Africa, your carry-ons get inspected twice to make sure you’re not bringing in any biltong (jerky). I’m guessing that checked bags get the same treatment.
Nope–you can bring most packaged foods into the US, including canned & vacuum-packed fish. The aforementioned biltong is out, though.
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Reminds me of a well known (but not well reviewed) movie with Sophia Loren called “La Mortadella” (English title: “Lady Liberty”) where Ms. Loren wants to bring a mortadella into the US. She’s not allowed to and hilarity ensues! You can watch it here on YouTube in Italian with English subtitles.
There was also an episode of “I Love Lucy” where Lucy wants to bring in a 30 lb hunk of cheese to the US from Europe. There would have been an extra baggage fee, so she attempts to disguise the cheese as a baby by swaddling it. As was nearly always the case with Lucy, hilarity ensues here as well!
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There are fairly stringent regulations even for shipping thinga between states within the US (particularly Florida, California, and Hawaii)
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Thanks for the films. Love Lucy’s baby!
Started to watch 15 mins of the Sophia Loren film, she’s a fighter!
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You’re welcome 
Lucy’s worth watching…but at least in this case, Ms. Loren may not be.
There was often control check point when we drive back from Las Vegas to California by car where you might get asked (and checked) if you bring in certain food items (fruits, vegetables etc)
Back in the late 70s, California experienced a major Mediterranean Fruit Fly infestation, and the state established a quarantine zone that encompassed the greater SF Bay Area. Traffic leaving the area was funneled through checkpoints to intercept fruits and vegetables that could harbor medflies in an attempt to contain the spread and keep it out of major growing areas (San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys). The ‘screening’ was pretty cursory, with most cars simply being stopped and the driver being asked if they had any of the listed foods, while others were directed for full inspections - get out, empty the car of all belongings, rifle through bags and boxes, etc.
Long time Chronicle columnist Herb Caen noted one exchange when a driver pulled up to an inspector at the weigh station cum checkpoint at Vasco Road on eastbound Interstate 205 and rolled down his window.
Inspector: Fruit?
Driver: No. You?
Inspector: Pull your car over there. [Points to a side area.] FULL INSPECTION ON THIS ONE!
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