Favourite Cheeses

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Speaking of vegetarianism (were we?), I once took a group of students to Spain. We gave our Spanish counterparts details of requirements re veggie diets, etc., but the evening we arrived and turned up for dinner, I was accosted by a group of vegetarians who felt they weren't being catered for.

Having perused the fare on offer I could see their point, so I spoke to the catering staff.

Yes, they knew there were vegetarians among our group, but they had catered for them.

- So where's the vegetarian option, I enquired in my best Spanish.

- There, they replied, pointing to one of the receptacles in the bain marie.

- But that's chicken.

- Yes. That's the vegetarian option...

At least my group saw the funny side of it.
 
In my house the Mexicana cheese is known as Sprout Mexicaine cheese, and fellow Bottom fans will know what I'm on about :lol:
 
My mother loves well-matured cheeses and all of the stinkies, and loves to recall a night when my father had a serious case of the munchies, and made himself a doorstep cheese sandwich. (We had a larder then, with nary a fridge in sight.) He was surprised to see my mother chuck the matured lump of Cheddar into the bin the next morning, and asked why, it'd been delicious. My mother, unaware he'd feasted on it, told him she'd meant to throw it out the day before - it'd 'over-matured' a tad and she'd noticed small maggots wriggling in it. At which point, my dear papa, turning green, departed hurriedly to the smallest room.
 
Nor would I solerina but it is always easier to say you are a vegetarian. Then a host or hostess can ask you if you eat fish or not , if they don't I am happy to eat and indeed do eat most of the time anyway veggie food .
 
Fair enough Ardross . I can understand that . When I was veggie I remember it was a minefield when you wen't round to someone's house for tea . Our motto then was "nothing with a face " . Makes you think when you see it like that .
 
Originally posted by krizon@Apr 22 2005, 11:17 PM
it'd 'over-matured' a tad and she'd noticed small maggots wriggling in it.
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There's only one thing worse than biting into some cheese and finding a maggot in it...















...biting some cheese and finding half a maggot in it :what:
 
I have obtained a rondel of 'La Rustique' Camembert for the aged one today, from a super deli in Stockbridge, having visited Reach the Wind and her adorable filly foal. Now, the reason I'm putting this bit of tosh up is for Maurice: the reason your Brie and other blues and stinkies are in the refrigerated section of your cheese shop is because they HAVE to be there by law. As do all cheeses. EU regs, etc. The dear old boy selling the cheese said that if he didn't keep it in the chilled section of the display cabinet, he'd be closed down. But once at home, it's best eaten soft and in its naturally oozy and very smelly state. The old girl's kitchen already smells like stinky socks!
 
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