Any traveller know if a whole new wheel of Reblochon cheese can be flown into

Good old Charley and her secret messages inform me that I am incorrect.

I looked. You can bring back most cheeses as long as they are not in liquid or pourable.

 
I wonder when that changed? We were in Cheddar (the "real deal") in England

and their store told us the majority of their sealed cheeses could not be brought back into the US. So they recommended only buying what we could eat while in the UK.

I would have thought a store would push all the product they could on tourists. Everyone was very polite.

 
Absolutely not. Only canned or dried food that is hermetically sealed.

That being said, visitors from France always bring us cheese and get away with it.

 
I just read Melissa's post so maybe things have changed since I last smuggled cheese.

 
Yes, I think it changed last Fall, for Canada as well.

The province of Quebec was producing unpasteurized cheeses, regardless of rules, and at some point recently, a blind eye was turned to it all. Americans were taking them back to the US and it seems that another blind eye popped out.

It used to be that anything as soft as a brie would not be allowed and definitely anything not pasteurized. My favourite is a Montbriac, which is in fact much softer, but oddly, pasteurized. If I could find it I brought back a whack of it; it was always checked carefully at customs.

I recall not too long ago, I was buying cheese in the well-known shop in the Madeleine. The owner of the shop put it all into a styrofoam box and sprinkled coffee grounds into the box to confuse the dogs. But it was all allowable anyway.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh those cheeses.

 
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