Posting butter and cheese within EU troubles...?

NakedEmporer

I know a homesick lady who would love some butter and cheese from our splendid producers in a surprise package...

It's costing me a fortune to send 2.5-3kg over there, around €35 with an post!

Do you think it's a good idea to freeze the cheese and butter so that they defrost on the way over there? They'll be around five days in transit.

Vincent Vega

A bit pricey.

You could get the grater out and send a few envelopes out on test runs, each one preserved in a different way.

kneemos

They'll defrost in a couple of hours.I thought Kerrygold was popular in Germany?

NakedEmporer

the girls well worth it, €50 overall for postage, butter and cheese.... standard enough price to pay I guess for a small meaningful present!


It will defrost but if I put an icepack in there too maybe, I have no experience with ice packs however

discus

Mate, while you are posting over all this lovey dovey ****, she is being smashed by Hans the local aryan blonde adonis. Cheese doesn't make up for a good old fashioned dicking. Don't be taken for a fool, lad!

PizzamanIRL

Just send her a cow.

Gran Hermano

Book a cheap flight and fly over with her preferred dairy goods.
You might even get some loving.

discus

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Just send her a cow.

Don't waste your time with this suggestion OP I hear Hans has a field of cows.

Gran Hermano

Probably much cheaper to break it down into several small parcels sub 1kg and use cheaper letter post rates compared to large parcel rates.

My name is URL

It's costing me a fortune to send 2.5-3kg over there, around €35 with an post!

€35 is very reasonable for posting 3kg overseas!

I wouldn't bother freezing it beforehand. Won't make a difference, The butter's gonna be ruined by the time it gets there you know.

humbert

3kg of butter and cheese sounds like a hell of a lot. I'd think twice about sending butter unless it's very well wrapped.

You could go the extra mile and bring it over in person?

sawdoubters

butter and cheese is the same everywhere,whats post regulations and customs

NakedEmporer

It probably would be cheaper by then I have the problem of protecting them all from heat and squashing seperately! I was thinking just bung them all in a tupperware box with an ice pack/box that wont be leaking if it exists....

Discus, I am Hans

discus

:eek:

AnonoBoy

Freeze the cheese!

That should definitely be a euphemism for something unsavoury.

NakedEmporer

She'll be back in 2-3 weeks time anyway but her family over there want our dairy. Our milkshake brings all the girls to the yard so to speak. So freeze the cheese, surely freezing the butter wont do it any harm either.

kneemos

Send a loaf of bread already made into sandwichs.

Tiddlypeeps

You can get thermal shipping boxes. No idea if they are expensive tho. If you pick one up and pack it with ice your food should get there fairly fresh.

humbert

Sheridans Cheesemongers in Dublin have a nice selection, nice wooden containers and will vacuum pack the cheese. Definitely better than a plastic tub with blocks of cheese swimming in melted butter.

Days 298

Smuggle a few suitcases of it using the dildo method. Bulk is cheaper.

PizzamanIRL

She wants you to spend 35 euro to send her some cheese and butter?!

Tell her you sent it and it cost 35 euro. Then when she doesn't get it, blame the postal service. It's not your fault. Packages go missing all the time.

Win/win situation. For you.

kneemos

kneemos wrote: »

They'll defrost in a couple of hours.I thought Kerrygold was popular in Germany?

It's not the same as here

kneemos

NakedEmporer wrote: »

It probably would be cheaper by then I have the problem of protecting them all from heat and squashing seperately! I was thinking just bung them all in a tupperware box with an ice pack/box that wont be leaking if it exists....

Discus, I am Hans

Wouldn't worry about the ice at this time of year.

NakedEmporer

Thanks for all the help and suggestions guys, I'm going to see if I can find a vacuum sealer owner around here and if not i'll go with the dildo method. I think maybe butchers own vacuum sealers?

I want her household over there to know she's being taken care of over here, simples! Things like this are invaluable

Mint Aero

Why are you sending her 3kg of butter and cheese? are you hoping she gets so fat, no bloke will touch off her?

Buddy, you need some Mint Aero logic. Although your intentions to fatten her up are good. When she waddles back to you and can't fit in the front door what are you going to do then?

Put her in a big pot? with onion and thyme?

NakedEmporer

Mint Aero wrote: »

Why are you sending her 3kg of butter and cheese? are you hoping she gets so fat, no bloke will touch off her?

Buddy, you need some Mint Aero logic. Although your intentions to fatten her up are good. When she waddles back to you and can't fit in the front door what are you going to do then?

Put her in a big pot? with onion and thyme?

I'll put her in the bed and enjoy those curves :P

PizzamanIRL

Whipped.
Under the thumb.
Wrapped around her finger.
Pussy-whipped.

humbert

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Whipped.
Under the thumb.
Wrapped around her finger.
Pussy-whipped.

PizzamanIRL: Single.

PizzamanIRL

humbert wrote: »

PizzamanIRL: Single.

PizzamanIRL: Man

General General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwYnAtOJ8eM

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NakedEmporer

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Whipped.
Under the thumb.
Wrapped around her finger.
Pussy-whipped.

Meh, it's a show of affection I'm doing, she does similar things. Some could call it a relationship I guess, it's grand! I'm not so scared of some kind of power struggle because neither of us are nut-jobs

topper75

While we are engaging in this madness, we may as well ask the young lady to get a quote from the German postal service for sending over dozens of steins of reasonably priced Warsteiner. Makes even more sense than the butter if you can get good stein lids.

jester77

kneemos wrote: »

They'll defrost in a couple of hours.I thought Kerrygold was popular in Germany?

It is, well the unsalted one is anyway. Kerrygold cheddar is also popular, or at least it is when I go shopping

syklops

NakedEmporer wrote: »

I know a homesick lady who would love some butter and cheese from our splendid producers in a surprise package...

It's costing me a fortune to send 2.5-3kg over there, around €35 with an post!

Do you think it's a good idea to freeze the cheese and butter so that they defrost on the way over there? They'll be around five days in transit.

Where is she?

Sir Arthur Daley

Sending it via courier will be the most economical, €20 up to 30kg alot cheaper than posting.

Baneblade

take travel time into consideration
nothng shows how much you care like rancid butter...

pickarooney

Who mentioned Germany?

mr kr0nik

kneemos wrote: »

They'll defrost in a couple of hours.I thought Kerrygold was popular in Germany?

Yeah, but who's bringing the horse to France

Mountainsandh

OP I've received cheese on several occasions from abroad, vacuum packed, and well wrapped with insulating things and stuff...

... and it's always kind of rotten.

I suppose I'm usually being sent soft cheeses, the cheddar might survive better but I did receive some French hard cheese too, and it wasn't great.

I think what happens is that they go through so many different temperatures, possibly freezing in the plane hold, then defrosting, then cold again, then warming up... By the time it gets to me, most of it is after sweating itself manky.

I'd give up on the idea if I were you.

These good friends from Germany cross the border into France every year to shop for and send me lots of French goodies, and everytime the cheese is wasted, but I don't have the heart to tell them. Thankfully all the other stuff travels well, so it's not like they waste the shipping money, just the cheese money.