A Fine Whine About Lower Cheese Exports From France

Associated Press ^ | 4/13/03 | Jocelyn Gecker

[jimbo123]

Looks like these surrender monkeys need to ask their buddies in Syria, Russia and Germany to eat more french cheese.

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[3AngelaD]

Here, have a taste of this nice Stilton.

[thucydides]

It will be interesting to see the tourism numbers. I have just switched a long planned 10 day trip through France. We will now be going to England. Probably many others will cancel their plans, too.

[Drango]

I'm a ACTIVIST boycotter. When I go to the local Safeway Store I try to catch the manager and ask him to support the troops and not buy French wine, cheese, water or yogurt.

At the checkout stand I grab a couple of comment cards and give 'em to co-workers and neighbors.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, luckily we produce domestic FromUnda Cheese

[Politically Correct]

I had a very nice 7 course dinner at an up and coming resturant that'll have 4 stars someday soon based on the food that came out of the kitchen. One of the appatizers had some cheese as part of it. The chef himself came out and explained that it was from a small farm in Wisconsin. No more French products in his kitchen!

The wines were all from California and Australia. You could have a French wine but you had to ask as they weren't on the list.

[xJones]

And may you greatly enjoy visiting England, our finest ally.

[maggief]

"I wish we could just invite people to have some cheese and wine and relax, but that wouldn't appear to be the solution for now,"

What a revelation!!! I think he needs some more emails. :)

[TheSpottedOwl]

A very good cheese to try is Manchego. It's a Mexican cheese with a firm texture and a slightly nutty flavor. Hard to describe, but I love it :)

[bybybill]

Going to be a whole lot of empty air plane seats this summer heading for Paris

[Free_at_last_-2001]

Just say Non!

[McGavin999]

Hey, maybe they can get the Islamic fundies to buy their wine. Oooops, they don't drink (at least in public)

I heard that french restaurants and food sellers here in AZ took out a full page ad in the paper begging people not to take it out on them. Their business is down! People don't want french food, french wine, french cheese or anything french. We won't soon forget how these weasles stabbed us in the back. Worse than that is the fact that the french people agreed with their government. These dispicable, degenerate, immoral people would have happily left the Iraqi people to suffer, just as long as it kept their economy going. Good thing there aren't many frenchmen in Phoenix, I'd be hard pressed not to spit on them.

[Cicero]

Stilton is the best. Even before all this happened it was the best.

[miss marmelstein]

English cheese is wonderful! Also Italian. Italian and Sicilian wine is wonderful too. There is no need for anyone to suffer cheese deprivation.

[Maven]

"We don't get any comments or remarks anymore. We're in the unspoken phase - where they're just not buying it," he said.

Exactly.

I've already asked my local Trader Joe's to look around for brie cheese that's not made in either France or Germany. I love brie - but won't buy it unless it's from someplace else.

I haven't told them that I won't buy the French/German cheese - my own silent phase....

Maven

[Tunehead54]

"It definitely is a bit more challenging to sell French wine these days," said Jacques Thebault of SOPEXA, a branch of the French Agriculture Ministry that markets French food products in the United States. "We believe we're going to have a short-term impact on sales."

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Sure there will be a "short-term" impact - I just hope its in geologic terms - say a billion years or so. I think the "fraunchie fraunch's" economy is going to take a serious hit. Your either with us or you're with the terrorists!

[Born to Conserve]

"A very good cheese to try is Manchego. It's a Mexican..."

Mexican? Mexico was not supportive.

There are some very interesting Spanish cheeses. Spain did support us.

[JRandomFreeper]

You could have a French wine but you had to ask as they weren't on the list

I'm learning to appreciate Texas wines. Since all of this has started, I've found several very good Texas wines that I'll continue to pair up with some of my classic dishes.

/john

[ffusco]

Anyone lamenting over French cheese and wine is a useless dilletante anyway.