Posted on 07/26/2017 9:54:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
French people are in uproar after a picture was posted online of a Camembert cheese that had clearly been cut in a flagrant violation of fromage etiquette. The post on on the French page of the site Reddit was titled "How my mother cuts Camembert..." (Le manière dont ma mère coupe le camembert),
It was flooded with comments from French people, who reacted with a mixture of mockery and anger at the way the famous French cheese from Normandy had been cut.
"We've guillotined people for less than that," wrote Raleur Francais. Another wrote "... well you just can't choose your family," referring to the unnamed mother who was allegedly behind the massacre of the Camembert.
Another suggested it was grounds to take away her French nationality, "If the site wasn't under maintenance, I would have reported her to internet-signalement.gouv.fr (the French governmental portal to report illegal activity online).
"There's cause for a loss of nationality there."
To which another French commenter responded, "take her to the British border immediately."
Some felt sympathy for the cheese.
"I suggest you take custody of this poor Camembert away from her for mistreatment," wrote Beheshka.
But the French mother's abuse of the cheese isn't about to end soon.
"I don't even dare to confront her about it, I'm scared for my life..." the orignal poster Majin Jack wrote.
Needless to say the post is more evidence of how seriously the French take their cheese etiquette and many a foreigner has fallen foul of the strict rules over the years.
Camembert, like all round cheeses should be cut in the same way a cake is sliced - in small triangular slivers.
The link below explains all you need to know about how to cut cheese and other important codes of cheese conduct.
Best Briehaviour: A guide to French cheese etiquette
meanwhile they let muslims asshats into their country to do some cutting of their own....and nary a peep is raised....
The frog people would be better off today had the US just let Hitler keep france.
I was sitting in a London pub back in 1990 listening to some of my business associates discuss camembert cheese. As I hadn’t tried it, I had no opinion. As my luck would have it, the airlines on my way back home from London to DC served camembert during the meal. HOLY CRAP!! That stuff tasted like it had been aged in sweaty gym socks. How could anyone with active taste buds eat that stuff. However, to each their own, and live and let live. I’m a capitalist at heart and if their is a demand, then someone should make money supplying the demand. Go forth and conquer. But, who knew there was a proper way to cut the cheese.
“Zey have massacred ze cheese!”
“Oooooh la la! Let us drink wine as a sign of our displeasure!”
Gulp gulp gulp
“I think we need to show more displeasure!”
“Surely! Let us drink more wine at them!”
Gulp gulp gulp
“Filthy cheese whackers!”
“Scandalous cheese slicers!”
Gulp gulp gulp
I feel about that crap cheese the way too many people feel about anchovies... (which I don’t)
Oh, it’s easy to slice if you freeze it first...
Ducking.
Lol!
So, who cut the cheese?
I read that article but it doesn’t mention Velveeta at all...and they call themselves cheese lovers.
Many people are noticeably upset when I cut the cheese.
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Thanks, but then I’m only interested if it acts like ballistic gel. Then I’ll shoot it.
Give me a good jarlsberg or an extra sharp chedder.
the frogs are good with the goathumpers destroying their country, but this, THIS, gets their panties in a twist... feh
So; not much call for any cheese, eh?
No, not even there. They would have been far better off today if they had done what they should have done to the French Enlightenment and executed them and destroyed all their works before they could end up causing the French Revolution two centuries prior. Heck, not just France, the entire WORLD would probably be far better off.
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