The Cheese Board

[Old Grumpy]

Well, thanks to FF and S_A...

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/platform-3/platform-3-aa/20753-good-news-stories?p=1291624#post1291624

https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/platform-3/platform-3-aa/20753-good-news-stories?p=1291652#post1291652

...here it is!

Pour a glass , and enjoy

[french frank]

Well, the Whisky and ?Pastries threads weren't quite as popular as the What was your most recent bottle of wine? - but here goes.

For me, the cheese course is an essential part of any main meal - a daily ritual. I tend to go for continental cheeses, especially French or Spanish, because those are quite readily available - though not in the variety I'd like.

As per my recent post, the Époisses has proved a great success. The other consideration is: what is a good accompaniment?

[eighthobstruction]

....Oh this thread is just made for Serials sense of humour
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[Serial_Apologist]

Well, the Whisky and ?Pastries threads weren't quite as popular as the What was your most recent bottle of wine? - but here goes.

For me, the cheese course is an essential part of any main meal - a daily ritual. I tend to go for continental cheeses, especially French or Spanish, because those are quite readily available - though not in the variety I'd like.

As per my recent post, the Époisses has proved a great success. The other consideration is: what is a good accompaniment?

For Cheese a jolly good fellow!

[eighthobstruction]

For Cheese a jolly good fellow!

....that's m'boy....

[Old Grumpy]

....Oh this thread is just made for Serials sense of humour
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Q.E.D. !

[Old Grumpy]

Frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.

[Serial_Apologist]

....Oh this thread is just made for Serials sense of humour
....

When I was ten I was given this illustration book of a French children's story, which told of how the Bastille came to an end. A poor little boy sees a lonely current bun in a shop window. Being starving he sneaks into the shop and steals it. A copper in the street blows his whistle on seeing this, and chases after the boy, catching him. He is taken away and imprisoned in the Bastille. But he still has the bun, and, being still hungry, is about to bite into it when the bun speaks to him, for it is a magic bun. It tells the little boy that for his kindness in rescuing him, he can have one wish granted, anything he wants. He tells the bun that he wants to escape and (in my version) for all prisoners of conscience to be free. So the bun says "Abracadbra" or whatever that is in French, and the Bastille is instantly transformed into one huge Gruyère cheese, which all the prison's rats start eating up, while the prisoners are able to escape through the holes that Gruyère cheese is well-known for.

In my adaptation, all the travails of the French Revolution were thus neatly avoided, the guillotine was turned into ploughshares, there was no need for Karl Marx to write "Das Kapital", and they all lived happily ever after.

[Serial_Apologist]

Frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.

Well you can Gruyère own then!

[eighthobstruction]

When I was ten I was given this illustration book of a French children's story, which told of how the Bastille came to an end. A poor little boy sees a lonely current bun in a shop window. Being starving he sneaks into the shop and steals it. A copper in the street blows his whistle on seeing this, and chases after the boy, catching him. He is taken away and imprisoned in the Bastille. But he still has the bun, and, being still hungry, is about to bite into it when the bun speaks to him, for it is a magic bun. It tells the little boy that for his kindness in rescuing him, he can have one wish granted, anything he wants. He tells the bun that he wants to escape and (in my version) for all prisoners of conscience to be free. So the bun says "Abracadbra" or whatever that is in French, and the Bastille is instantly transformed into one huge Gruyère cheese, which all the prison's rats start eating up, while the prisoners are able to escape through the holes that Gruyère cheese is well-known for.

In my adaptation, all the travails of the French Revolution were thus neatly avoided, the guillotine was turned into ploughshares, there was no need for Karl Marx to write "Das Kapital", and they all lived happily ever after.

I think all on the forum will be thinking - Ah yes that explains a lot....

[french frank]

Well you can Gruyère own then!

Feta compli.

[eighthobstruction]

....very good

[french frank]

I daresay the 'discussion' will calm down eventually

[oddoneout]

I daresay the 'discussion' will calm down eventually

Well of course, for "Blessed are the cheesemakers"

[oddoneout]

When I was ten I was given this illustration book of a French children's story, which told of how the Bastille came to an end. A poor little boy sees a lonely current bun in a shop window. Being starving he sneaks into the shop and steals it. A copper in the street blows his whistle on seeing this, and chases after the boy, catching him. He is taken away and imprisoned in the Bastille. But he still has the bun, and, being still hungry, is about to bite into it when the bun speaks to him, for it is a magic bun. It tells the little boy that for his kindness in rescuing him, he can have one wish granted, anything he wants. He tells the bun that he wants to escape and (in my version) for all prisoners of conscience to be free. So the bun says "Abracadbra" or whatever that is in French, and the Bastille is instantly transformed into one huge Gruyère cheese, which all the prison's rats start eating up, while the prisoners are able to escape through the holes that Gruyère cheese is well-known for.

In my adaptation, all the travails of the French Revolution were thus neatly avoided, the guillotine was turned into ploughshares, there was no need for Karl Marx to write "Das Kapital", and they all lived happily ever after.

The poor little boy was called Tomme?