Cheesed-off residents say the Cerne Abbas Giant has been ‘castrated’ and made ‘non-binary’ on a dairy company’s labelling.
But the Oxford Cheese Company say they were left between a Roquefort and a hard place after a shopper was shocked by the chopper on its Cerne
Abbas Man vintage cheddar.
The big cheeses at the firm insist they have not lopped off the Giant’s todger, but instead, given him a pair of trousers to wear in one supermarket –
his member remains proudly on display in other stores, apparently. Villagers, however, are less than impressed.
Vic Irvine, head brewer at Cerne Abbas Brewery, told MailOnline: “We love our giant here and defacing him like this is like throwing paint over Nelson’s Column. It is clearly a binary giant who has a large phallus. It’s that simple.
“If you don’t like it, don’t use our giant. The whole thing makes me really cross, I’m incandescent with rage.”
Dorchester’s Mayor Alistair Chisholm said: “That’s just wrong. The whole point is that he is depicted the way he is, which is what makes people come to see him.
“It makes a mockery of it. It’s like filling in Durdle Door and making it a solid block of rock.
“His member is what makes him magnificent.
“It would just be plain wrong to make him amorphous.
“The whole point is that it provokes a reaction.
Remove his member and he is just a white line on the hillside.”