§ MR. A. L. STANLEY (Cheshire, Eddisbury)I beg to ask the Chairman of the Kitchen Committee whether the Cheshire cheese supplied in the dining-room of the House is invariably the product of Cheshire, or whether it is an American or Canadian imitation; if the latter, whether he will undertake that Members asking for Cheshire cheese shall be able to obtain the same.
§ MR. JACOBY (Derbyshire, Mid.)In reply to the hon. Member's Question, the purveyors to the Kitchen Committee 1371 guarantee that the Cheshire cheese supplied by them is a genuine article, and is the produce of Cheshire.
§ MR. A. L. STANLEYWill the hon. Gentleman instruct the waiters in the refreshment room not falsely to inform Members that the cheese which is called Cheshire comes from America?
§ MR. JACOBYI think the hon. Member mistakes the statement with regard to Canadian Cheddar, which is given with the one shilling dinner, as applying to Cheshire cheese.
§ MR. STANLEYI have not mistaken Cheddar, which is the product of an alien county, for Cheshire, which is a county in which I take a little interest. The Cheshire cheese, I was informed, was really a Canadian or American imitation of the genuine article.
§ MR. JACOBYThen the hon. Member was wrongly informed.