Tag: Cerne Abbas

Oxford cheese company in spat over claims it ‘castrated’ landmark

Oxford Cheese Company used a picture of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a naked chalk figure well-known for its 36ft giant phallus, on its Cerne Abbas Cheddar. But it censored the image by adding a pair of trousers following a request from a supermarket. Baron Robert Pouget, who founded the Oxford...

Cheese company ‘castrates’ the Cerne Abbas giant

Vic Irvine, the head brewer at the Cerne Abbas Brewery in Dorset whose branding sports a fully intact giant, said it was “abhorrent to castrate him”. “We love our giant here and defacing him like this is like throwing paint over Nelson’s Column. “It is clearly a binary giant...