WARNING: Off-color commentary.
French culture, that abstract repository of 1,500 years of Frenchness and all its refinements, is evinced in a current promotion for French cheeses. The Association Fromages de Terroirs, a regional trade group, has mixed tasty soft cheeses with tasty soft porn to produce its From' Girls (Cheese Girls) 2K6 calendar.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHEESE!
Dom, Chef Cheese Whiz, Supports the Cheese Girls
LYONS December 3, 2005 (Telegraph) - [Véronique Richez-Lerouge, the founder of France's regional cheese association and its national cheese day, and also the December Cheese Girl] persuaded her friends in Lyons, aged from 20 to around 40 and lovers of cheese and wine, to pose. ... Each appears in various stages of undress next to a cheese.
Each of the thirteen Cheese Girls (twelve months + covergirl) is posed to suggest some aspect of her offering. For example, the peek-a-boo crotch shot of Mlle. Décembre's white panties reminds us to remove the outer layer of the yummy Mont d'Or so that we can properly apply our spoon. Astraddle a folding chair, the spread-eagled Mlle. Févier proves when a cheese looks this inviting we do not mind -- if we notice at all -- the heady pong of Crottin de Chavignol.* And who could doubt after gazing on the wholesome contours of Mlle. Mars, representing fermier morbier while spilling from her back-laced bustier and push-up bra, that pasteurized industrial morbier "n'en est qu'une pâle copie".
The women also stripped to prove that you can eat smelly cheese and stay thin and healthy. "French women are obsessed with dieting," Mrs Richez-Lerouge said. "But low-fat cheese has no taste and is not as healthy as fromage au lait crû."The calendar is aimed at stemming a downward trend in unpasteurised cheese on a par with the drop in French wine consumption. Today only seven per cent of cheeses eaten in France are unpasteurised, compared with up to half 30 years ago. Some cheeses have already disappeared. Mrs Richez-Lerouge placed the blame for the decline on overly stringent European rules and on supermarkets that produce fake cheeses with no taste.
It'a all about the cheese!
* We never tire of remarking because people never tire of asking: The Crottin de Chavignol...took its name from the small clay oil lamp from the Sancerrois but was soon nicknamed 'horse droppings'. This was because crottin in French means 'dung' and because of the cheese's resemblance to horse dung when mature.
PFFT (What is this?): Cheesy! Sexy! Frenchy! 5 | Rayonnement français 3
Bonjour,
Pure jalousie de l'anglosphère avec ses produits dégueulasses:
-vaches enragées
-Maq(uereau)-Do
-Caca-Cola
etc etc
Bonne nourriture= nourriture française
Entre le chester et le saint-nectaire il n'y a pas photo !
Et quels sont les abrutis qui aiment mieux un Caca-Cola qu ' un bon Bordeaux , à part les yankees et leurs amis musulmans du Kosovo ?
Ah, M. AB/AY,
You are becoming a fixture. And you continue to post in French, because, well, because you will not be held to rules. Because you are bold and French.
We will let your comment here stand, because we, and this apparently has escaped you, determine the rules here. We let it stand because we feel there is value in having the quality of the opposition's thinking on view.
But enough of your imbecilities are in evidence.
We do not ask much: stay on topic, post in English. If that offends, as we suspect it does, your franchouille sensibilities, well, dear boy, take your French self elsewhere. We will not weep at the loss of you.
It is nothing to us to delete your French comments. As you will find out when you test our resolve, as we suspect you will.
Joyeux Noël,
The Management
Bonjour,
Nous en avons nous ,Français ,plus que marre de subir le sabir angloide chez nous.
Alors vous subirez un peu de Français ,cela ne vous fera pas de mal...
Néanmoins in English):
"Good luck for your country in Irak !"
(D' après Milton Friedmann , s'adressant de façon insultante à la France).
Et joyeux Noêl à vous aussi !
Vous voyez le Français c'est même accessible à un yankee avec un petit effort ,petit effort que vos compatriotes consentent assez rarement …
Bonne nourriture= nourriture française
Sure. One example among many others:
Début novembre, l’affaire des steaks hachés surgelés Chantegril faisait brutalement irruption dans l’actualité. Découverte par les services sanitaires de plusieurs départements du Sud-Ouest, la toxi-infection alimentaire collective (TIAC) allait vite déboucher sur la mise en cause de trois lots de viande, fabriqués en juillet et août, dans le Maine-et-Loire par Soviba et commercialisés par Leclerc sous sa signature MDD. Des lots en l’occurrence contaminés par la très toxique version H7 de la bactérie Escherichia Coli O157.
Allez, another example:
Le Velay est un fromage au lait de vache. Exclusivement fermier, il diffère forcément d'une ferme à l'autre. On recense près de 23 producteurs fermiers du Velay (de Loudes à Solignac, Pradelles, Saint-Paulien, Cayres...) dont le travail vient d'être récompensé très récemment par l'attribution officielle de la provenance "Montagne" . . .Après le salage, le fromage est mis à sécher 2 à 5 jours avant de rejoindre les claies ou maies en bois de peuplier propices au développement des fameux artisons ou "artisous".
La durée d'affinage en cave est de 3 semaines minimum, mais les connaisseurs se délectent plus volontiers d'un fromage de deux mois d'âge, à la croûte irrégulièrement façonnée par ces milliers de petits acariens.
C'est aux artisons ou "artisous" que le Velay doit l'aspect rustique de sa croûte, savammant sculptée. Mais pour les connaisseurs, ces petits acariens ont également un rôle dans l'élaboration de la saveur de ce fromage bien particulier.
Pouah.
Considering what they eat, don't bother asking you why the French are full of crap...
Pure jalousie de l'anglosphère avec ses produits dégueulasses:
-vaches enragées
-Maq(uereau)-Do
-Caca-Cola
Well, as far as "Caca" cola, I'm sure he will be pleased about Coke debuting it's newest product BLAK in France. Yup, in France.
BLAK is a mixture of coffee and coke. Seems that the French are drinking as much coke as red wine these days....e-nough for coke to debut a new product there. Pure jalousie indeed!
Considering what they eat, don't bother asking you why the French are full of crap...
Maybe full of crap, but definitely thinner.
BLAK is a mixture of coffee and coke.
Surely an improvement for that piss-water coffee you seem serve everywhere in the States.
Bonjour,
Notre merveilleux "Roquefort" vient de connaître une récompense bien méritée.
La moisissure responsable de son goût inimitable ("penicillium roqueforti") vient d ' être reconnue à Dublin ( sortie de la colonisation de l 'Anglosphère en attendant la réunification) symbole de la BIODIVERSITE FRANCAISE.
Il figurera désormais sur une stèle irlandaise.
Ainsi sont récompensés plus de 2000 ans d ' efforts du paysan gallo-romain puis français.
Evidemment un tel exploit est inaccessible à une nation de parvenus d ' à peine 200 ans d' Histoire.De quoi bien sûr provoquer des jalousies.
Joyeux Noel aux troupes US en Irak ! Amusez-vous bien !
Alors vous subirez un peu de Français ,cela ne vous fera pas de mal...
I could not help but notice that 3 of the teams in World Cup group G are French speaking. (France, Togo and Switzerland). I hope Togo becomes "evil" against the old colonial master. Perhaps the “voices” that Zinedine Zidane will hear there will be the ghosts of those trampled by the old French empire. (I know, I know, Germany too, but heck, that ruins the story…)
Néanmoins in English):
"Good luck for your country in Irak !"
We do not need your wishes for success in Iraq. It will come to pass. However, please wish us success in Germany. In June. There we will need lots of luck.
Surely an improvement for that piss-water coffee you seem serve everywhere in the States.
I believe they also serve it in France. Please visit your local Starbucks for more information. Thanks for supporting those US companies!
Damian,
Does Food & Wine magazine know you run about, untethered to one of their desks? Nice wite-up on the nourriture.
So, will the cheese syndicate be allowed to offer up femmes avec fromage calendars after Akbar and Omar take over?
I hope Togo becomes "evil" against the old colonial master.
Not a chance. I'm more concerned about S.Korea who will play dirty and knocked out Zidane out of the last World Cup in a pre-World cup exhibition game. As for the US, they have no chance against the Czechs and Italy, but good luck.
The Swiss also speaks German and Italian, by the way.
@Andy
Bonjour,
Nous n ' avions pas besoin non plus du "good luck" de Milton Friedmann l'ami du Nazi pro-américain Pinochet...
Vous n'avez pas , en bon yankee , le sens de l 'humour ,dommage...
Joyeux Noêl et "good luck for your country in Irak"...
Well, I'm not sure I fully understand your comment. Perhaps it is my French. If you are having double meanings, etc, my French is not good enough to pick up. Sorry. Or perhaps it is your ideas?
Amazing coincidence—in today’s Washington Times was an article about Milton Friedman. One (n) by the way…
The article states “Western Europe, however, is still an economic mess, held down by a costly welfare state, high taxation and government labor laws that obstruct growth, he says.” “Italy, Germany and France are doing very poorly, experiencing low economic growth and high unemployment.” They need a strong dose of privatization, government downsizing and an overhaul of their labor laws.
And, I would guess, a lot more LUCK than the US needs.
