[Sca-cooks] Why bother to import the cheap stuff?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

In context, it's part of a litany of unpleasant offerings:
 
http://books.google.com/books?id=k3VfAAAAMAAJ&dq=Martial%20toulouse%20cheese
&pg=PA559#v=onepage&q&f=false
 
Like many satirists, too, Martial leaned more towards the negative than the 
 positive.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Comparing prices in  medieval France
_http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/08/comparing-prices-in-medieval-france.ht
ml_ (http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/08/french-cities-of-dark-ages.html) 







In a message dated 9/6/2014 6:33:29 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com writes:

>The  Romans certainly imported lesser quality versions of some  foods.
>Martial writes of "unsavory Toulouse cheese"

That could  mean an aged cheese or even a blue cheese, not necessarily 
lesser  quality.