A selection from our li-brie...
Cheese Books
- East of Edam - John Steinbeck
- Fromage to Catalonia - George Orwell
- Brighton Roquefort - Graham Greene
- For Whom the Babybel Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Primula of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
- The Dairylea of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Feta - James Herriot
- Cheddar Gabler - Henrick Ibsen
- Catcher in the Ryvita - J.D. Salinger
- The Grated Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Much Fondue About Nothing - William Shakespeare
- The Scarlet Leicester - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Tarka the Ricotta - Henry Williamson
- Udder milk would - Dylan Thomas
- Aragon with the wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Parmesan Lost - John Milton
- Rumpledstiltonskin - The Brothers Grimm
- Othello Mozarella - William Shakespeare (more a book cheese than a cheese book)
- À la Recherche du Temps Fondue - Marcel Proust
Cheese Films
- The Philadelphia Story
- Brie Encounter
- Bring Me the Cheddar Alfredo Garcia
- Reblochon Without A Cause
- Bringing Up Babybel
- Cheesy Rider
- Fellini's La Dolcelatte
- For a Few Dollars, Morbier
- The Gouda, the Bad and the Ugly
- Last Gruyere in Marienbad
- Full Emmental Jacket
- Big Truckle in Little China
- Saving Private Rind
- Camembert-foot in the Park
- The Curds of Frankenstein
- Carlito's Whey
- The Mascarpone of Zorro
- My Boursin Vinny
- Yargo
I hate this kind of game. --si
- I can see why it would grate on the nerves.
A brie(f) history of the game
Fergal was snowboarding with Yaron, Nikki and Paul in 2002. We were staying in Courchevel 1300 (Le Praz), which was a nice old village, quite low down. On our walk to the lifts from our flat was a large barn, with various signs on it. One said 'Fromagerie', the other 'Biblioteque'. There was no obvious entrance, so we couldn't explore further. Without breaking stride, Yaron and I decided that this was the only somewhat secretive World Headquarters Of Cheese Literature, and that inside you would find all the books ever written that had types of cheese in the title. The rest of the holiday was spent annoying everyone with terrible puns.
A minor revival of this great and noble game was seen on the coach back from another snowboarding trip, this time with Rick and Mnki and Melissa. Rick and I worked through the contents of another secretive organisation, L'Association Internationale du Filme Fromagine. It was late at night on the coach (as I recall?) and we kept everyone up with our sniggering over cheese-related films. Eventually the people at the back joined in with some corkers, which I forget.
Since then the baton has been carried by our beloved coot who has endeavoured to collect here a compendium of dairy product masterpieces for your pleasure.
- Hey, don't blame them all on me!
- As I recall, the game was particularly sadistic as we were essentially* in an Auschwitz cattle truck and hadn't eaten for over ten hours, and the thought of cheese made our stomaches cramp in pain.
(*used non-literally, in this case)
Disclaimer
Of course we are not the first people to come up with cheese-related puns. Oh no.
But only some of these are at all funny: [1] [2] [3]
Many of these make me laugh: [4]
Another page copied by the [bot wiki]. For shame!
And linked to by someone at [5] the BBC.