Where to buy British mature Cheddar Cheese and salted butter in Poland?

maybe it was just Lurpak (a Danish brand that advertises in Poland) - btw green and gold packaging is what Kerrygold butter sold in some stores looks like but I don't really know if it's salted

I remember the times when there was Danish salted butter sold in our stores - it was delivered in bulk and pieces cut out of it when sold - it had the advantage of not needing refrigeration for some time - I am not sure but it may have been the reason why they brought it in into Poland (in the times of centrally planned economy of communist times)

as for cheese I really liked the American variety my grandpa received from international help that went through church channels (he also got palm oil then - it tasted great: my only encounter with palm oil so far)

I finally remembered to check. It comes in 2 kilo blocks, cut at the counter, the label is purple and it's called Mlekovita Cheddar dojrzewały (matured). The texture isn't quite right - like most Polish cheeses it isn't ideal for grating and it obviously comes from a factory rather than a traditional producer, however the taste is OK - better than a normal ser żółty.

My local shop has it for 23zl a kilogram and as far as I can see, I'm the only person who buys it.

Thanks Jon.

btw plenty of C/City mild & mature at Tesco Bielany Wroc.

Also good value cottage cheese there and at Biedronka - 500g for just under 4zl

Butter on special offer at Tesco too, 3zl.

Cheese bulletin - posted 16:51 00 04 07 2012
Priority: Urgent

C/City Mature cheddar - no visible stock at Tesco, Bielany, Wroclaw.
There is, however, dairy-packed C/City Mild, 6 or 7 packs in the deli counter area by a large slab of catering-size Kerrygold.

There is no evidence of any C/City on the main cheese aisle shelf as of the date of this Notice. This could cause considerable anxiety to some members of the community, but there is no reason, repeat no reason, to believe more stocks will not be made available in the near future.

Message ends.

I made a cheese run to the UK. Lots of Cheddar of all types and Lancashire, Wensleydale plus other delights.

To avoid cheese death, I suggest you freeze some for future emergencies, if you survive.

Some people say that it doesn't freeze that well, becomes too crumbly or what have you.

I tried the presliced Mlekovita stuff today and it was foul!

I'd avoid that. The stuff in blocks is OK.

No mature C/City at Tesco Magnolia Park, but there were a few packs in the Wroclaw Bielany branch cheese deli counter area the other day.

Also, Tesco are now doing online ordering with office or home delivery the next day. We've had this service in the UK for some years now.

tesco.pl/ezakupy

Whether they have the CC cheese there online I don't know, I didn't see it.

They do have Kerrygold listed however.

(E shop may be Wroclaw and Warsaw only at the moment, not sure)

I live in England and it makes me smile as you miss things which I don't like and never buy here.:-)

Salty butter- What is the purpose for it....? No sandwich with anything sweet like honey, jam...but I like proper English,unsalted butter.
cheddar- my least favourite cheese...but again I love Welsh goat cheese.

And things like gravy- all this powder/granulated stuff put on the food to kill its natural flavour....

I suppose if you could buy it daily you wouldn't miss it. We all miss different things. A Filipino friend in Poland misses dog and I know a Pole in Japan who misses milk that's gone off. Both foods have their fans but most outsiders consider them horrible.

Real gravy by the way doesn't come from a packet ;-)

>>>foods have their fans but most outsiders consider them horrible>>>>

very true:-)

Ha,ha, milk that has gone off- kefir I guess.

I suppose I am lucky as there are so many shops with polish food in Uk now....

I know real gravy is ok, but some people use packet one on top of nearly everything...

Presliced stuff tends to be dreadful full stop!

Cheese update for 22 July. Location: Carrefour, Arkadia, Jana Pawla, Warsaw.

Very limited availability (maybe four packs) of Wyke Farms' Extra Mature Cheddar (in re-sealable packs), 18zl for 200 grams. More availability of Kerrygold mild Cheddar (estimate 15 packs minimum), 10zl for 200 grams.

Note: visit was at 6.30 on a Sunday, so some shelves were doing a fairly passable impression of the Poland of the mid 1980s.

I sometimes see them in Wroclaw - maybe at Tesco Bielany or EPI. Too dear for me.

C/City mature and mild cheddar spotted in the aisle chiller at Tesco, Wroclaw's Magnolia Park too. But no Tesco UK Fairtrade teabags there...

Carrefour at Arkadia have a very acceptable Kerrygold Mature Cheddar at 10zl for 200g. Recommended.

Not a bad stand-by and only moderately more pricey than C/City. I assume Arkadia is in Warsaw.

Tesco at Wroclaw's Marino don't have any mature cheddar at the moment. (I believe that Tesco is a 24 hour apart from public holidays, btw.)

Aisle 43 at Tesco Wroclaw Bielany is where you'll find C/City mature at the moment. (Above the bargain bin items.)
The cheese counter also has some as well as the mild.

Unfortunately, the decent tea is sold out (Tesco Fair Trade Finest).

Tesco in Wroclaw's Bielany has Cathedral City in the cheese counter area now, stacked near the off-the-block cheeses. It is prepacked in 3 varieties - Mild, Mature, Extra Mature. I might try the EM, just hope it's not farmhousey as that can be gritty-like (it's the milk crystals I think) and too strong. Pigrims Choice Farmhouse is like that, not to my taste.

i'd double check this.

Have they now sold out? It was there yesterday.

bielany is not in wroclaw

The receipt says Tesco Hipermarket - Wroclaw, Bielany Wroclawskie

So you're explain to me the difference, as a newcomer I don't know it.

This is perhaps going to end up in the random chat or bin, but I think you're alluding to it being somewhere called Koberce or something like that, or that it's an area called Wroclawskie like Katy Wroclawskie. That's my guess on what you mean. But Tesco call their branch Wrocław, so in my mind it's Bielany, Wroclaw but perhaps it should be considered part of that other area with the similar name which Google translates as "the Wroclaw" (Wroclawskie).

That's it. just put it down to my pedantic, asshole mode.

Well if you're right you're right and you are.

I get confused because the endings of cities/towns change in Polish to mean in or whatever it is, so I probably thought Wroclawskie meant "in". I think it's a whole separate area or something, perhaps meaning (I'm purely guessing) Greater Wroclaw. If not, bit of an unfortunate coincidence that the names are so similar, or fortunate coincidence if you head for one wanting the other coming from hundreds of miles away - depending on whether you're a glass half empty or half full person.

At selected Biedronkas (2000 shops in Poland) there is 10-month and 14-month matured cheddar, 7zl for 200g. The 14-m is farmhouse-like. Not bad at all, pretty good quite frankly and I don't usually go for farmhouse. The 10-m I am yet to try. I don't know if they use animal rennet, ie suitable for vegetarians or not.

I spotted this yesterday as well and meant to buy some - there was also some interestingly imported Irish cheddar among it.


You can normally come across the "kie" ending when there are multiple place names in Poland with the same name - for instance, Oborniki Sląskie is called such because there's also a more well known Oborniki in Wielkopolska. Or - another example - Kalisz Pomorskie.

Iwona, regarding powdered gravy, Its the same in Poland, jasny/ciemny Sos from a packet.

Just tried the Biedronka 10-month cheddar. It's not bad, not brilliant but not bad. It is a mature with a slightly unusual taste but very passable and would make a good cheese sauce I reckon. C/City is still best for mature, but I think Biedronka's 14-month is a good alternative Farmhouse cheddar which is good in its own right. Both of these products are very acceptable if C/City is out of stock or if budget conscious (or if just making a cheese sauce!)

I was going to recommend the same. They have a great selection of just about everything.

They don't have mature cheese at every branch, selected stores only.

I regret to advise myself that Biedronka say this was a promotional line only and that where stocks are exhausted, no more will be offered until the next promotion. In other words, if it's gone it's gone. Ditto with Lidl's Hatherwood cheddar - it won't be back until the next promotion, probably in anything from 6 to 18 months.

Apologies to P/F members whom I promised to bring food back from the UK - my lightweight case broke and I didn't have the weight allowance this time - I will bring the promised chocs, teabags, cheese and gravy granules back next time for sure. Sorry.

british corner shop have this week dropped their shipping charge to Poland: it's now £12.99 for up to 30kg.

InWroclaw,did you ever find any comparable tea in Poland as the UK?

Thanks, Harry :o)


Not really, perhaps 2 Lipton bags per mug of tea, and sometimes I think the Remsey black tea from Biedronka's just about passable. I only managed to bring 160 tea bags back from the UK this time, unfortunately. I have given a few individual bags away to Polish acquaintances here but I don't think they like British market tea very much.