Comments on: Blessed Are The Cheese-Makers!

By: Tom Wise

Tom Wise — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:16:32 +0000

Friends, I beg your forgiveness.
It was Mr Micheal Palin, not Graham Chapman.
Apologies to all.
I consider myself reprimanded.
Tom

By: Tom Wise

Tom Wise — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:14:01 +0000

Ah, yes, the wonderful Wallace. He and his favourite fromage – Wensleydale – (a village in North Yorkshire, England, for the uninitiated) was preceded by the inimitable John Cleese and Graham Chapman in the Python Sketch, the Cheese shop.

The fermented curd never did taste so beguiling as when accompanied by the ‘right’ cheese. But then, it is all a matter of taste.
I do enjoy a really good, very cold, Sauternes with the salty sheeps cheese, Roquefort, while a sturdy Stilton needs the power of a good vintage port.
AS I am 8 hours ahead, and my weekend has already begun, I have indulged with a little runny Brie and some blue veined Dolcelatte. Yes, here I had the very good company of a 1999 Geyserville.
Bliss in a bottle.

Enjoy YOUR weekend!
Tom

By: Tom Wise

Tom Wise — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:10:48 +0000

Well, if you will continue with the British theme (started yesterday by the mention of Autumn and the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness), what better than to launch this with Wallace & Gromit and their favourite cheese, Wensleydale? This of course, was preceded by the Monty Pyton team and the Cheese shop sketch which begins….
Monty Python’s Flying Circus – “Cheese Shop”
[ from Monty Python's Flying Circus, third season, first shown 30.11.1972 ]

The Players:
John Cleese – Mousebender;
Michael Palin – Wensleydale;
The Scene: An Edwardian-style shop which carries the signs:
‘Ye Olde Cheese Emporium’; ‘Henry Wensleydale, Purveyor of Fine Cheese to the Gentry and the Poverty Stricken Too’; ‘Licensed for Public Dancing’; Two men dressed as city gents are Greek dancing in the corner to the music of a bouzouki.
Mousebender enters.

It goes without saying that there is no fermented curd in that emporium ………

I am also reminded that tthe Governance of France was described as impossible by one of their leaders because ” How can you expect to run a country where there are over 500 cheeses?”