Has there ever been a greater cheese than this goat cheese?
I guess not, I mean it's in the name: goat cheese.
If I were a fluent, speaking member of this culture, and I stopped at the goat cheese stand in the Liberation Market, I almost certainly would have joked with the cheese purveyor by asking "And what makes this cheese the "Greatest Of All Time?"
But all I could manage here in France was to point at the exquisitely plain looking round white cheese and say "Je voudrais..." and then point with my finger. And then add politely "S'il vous plait."
The French person, to be sure she understood, said something. I understood the word "frais", which means "fresh".
"Oui, Frais!" I mumbled excitedly. But I was too late and mumbly to communicate anything as she was already taking it from the case and wrapping it, so I might have just started murmuring "cheese" excitedly at that point for all it did.
She packed up my nice large fresh round cheese. Four euros.
If this had happened in the country I come from, where I speak the language very well, and I joked: "And what makes this cheese the "Greatest Of All Time?" I probably wouldn't have been understood anyway.
But it wouldn't have happened because they seriously do not have cheese like that where I come from, as simple as it was.
My god that cheese was good!
"Was it the "GOAT cheese?" You might like to ask, trying out the fun joke.
Oh.
Perhaps fortunately, how good it was cannot be said in the words of any language.
Cheese is Good, I have been known to overindulge and at times, I have become constipated. Did you put it on Crackers ?
ReplyDeleteNon non, monsieur, en le baguette! Though mostly I just ate it with my fingers like an animal. Perhaps if you are eating a lot of cheese you should try drinking a lot of water and that will help? Maybe it's the cracker's fault? Anyway, Good luck, you will figure it out.
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