Kicker: The grate cheddar caper

NICK EICHER, HOST: Scammers are going to scam, and this time, someone’s muenstered up nearly 50,000 pounds of prize-winning cheddar. Chef Jamie Oliver took to social media for help.

OLIVER: There’s only a small handful of real cheddar cheese makers in the world and these are some of the cheeses or most of them that have got nicked. So a real shame.

A shame indeed—for cheese connoisseurs and a London-based cheesemonger that sources from dozens of makers across Britain and Ireland. Someone posing as a distributor managed to skim off around 1,000 wheels of the good stuff.

OLIVER: So if anyone hears anything about posh cheese going for cheap, it's probably some run ins.

Scotland Yard’s on the case, hoping to melt down the leads and catch the culprits before they shred the evidence, or brie-z through customs with their “grate” escape.

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