The Cheese Board

[oddoneout]

Of course there are Brie Encounters (courtesy of Wallace and Gromit!).

We must listen to some Camembert Humperdinck this evening.

I'd rather caraway some komijnekaas.

[Pulcinella]

We might listen to Gouda's Faust at some point!

[cria]

Vacherin Mont d'Or is in season now ... gorgeous, gooey when baked in the spruce box ... just spoon it out or serve with bread, crudités, potatoes like raclette. Not cheap ... I pair it with Aldi Aqua Vale sparkling water

[Pulcinella]

Of course there are Brie Encounters (courtesy of Wallace and Gromit!).

We must listen to some Camembert Humperdinck this evening.

[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?

[oddoneout]

I daresay the 'discussion' will calm down eventually

Well of course, for "Blessed are the cheesemakers"

[french frank]

I daresay the 'discussion' will calm down eventually

[eighthobstruction]

....very good

[french frank]

Well you can Gruyère own then!

Feta compli.

[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....

[Serial_Apologist]

Frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.

Well you can Gruyère own then!

[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.

[Old Grumpy]

Frankly my dear, I don't give Edam.

[Old Grumpy]

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

Q.E.D. !

[eighthobstruction]

For Cheese a jolly good fellow!

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