Posted on 02/13/2003 12:06:09 PM PST by new cruelty
French online cheese boutique, Fromage.com, is receiving a raft of e-mails from irate US customers who may like the cheese, but take offence at France’s position on Iraq, in what seems to be the start of an unofficial boycott of French goods, according to a report from Reuters.
While American lawmakers are drafting legislation to impose sanctions on French water and wine because of the country’s demand that a case for war against Iraq has yet to be made, and her hawkish columnists are calling France a nation of ‘cheese-eating surrender-monkeys,’ Main Street, USA has stopped ordering French cheese online.
Orders for Fromage.com have declined considerably, says the report, but Marc Refabert, the owner of the internet fromagerie, is not moved. "You've got to be adult. I don't think it's a very well thought-through reaction," said Refabert.
He expects the Americans will climb down in a few months, saying that French cheese just tastes too good.
http://www.louisjadot.com/index_uk.html
http://www.louisjadot.com/index_uk.html
Done!
Tillamook cheese rules.
Abbaye de Belloc Abbaye du Mont des Cats Abondance Affidelice au Chablis Aisy Cendre Ambert Ami du Chambertin Anneau du Vic-Bilh Ardi Gasna Aromes au Gene de Marc Aubisque Pyrenees Autun Babybel Baguette Laonnaise Banon Beaufort Bleu d'Auvergne Bleu de Gex Bleu de Laqueuille Bleu de Septmoncel Bleu Des Causses Bougon Boule Du Roves Boulette d'Avesnes Boursault Boursin Bouyssou Brebis du Lavort Brebis du Lochois Brebis du Puyfaucon Bresse Bleu Brie Brie de Meaux Brie de Melun Brillat-Savarin Brin Brin d' Amour Briquette de Brebis Briquette du Forez Broccio Broccio Demi-Affine Brousse du Rove Buchette d'Anjou Butte Cabecou Cachaille Calenzana Camembert de Normandie Cantal Caprice des Dieux Carre de l'Est Cathelain Cendre d'Olivet Chabichou Chabichou du Poitou Chabis de Gatine Chaource Charolais Chaumes Chevres Chevrotin des Aravis Civray Coeur de Camembert au Calvados Coeur de Chevre Comte Coulommiers Crayeux de Roncq Crottin de Chavignol Crottin du Chavignol Cure Nantais Dauphin Delice des Fiouves Dreux a la Feuille Emental Grand Cru Epoisses de Bourgogne Esbareich Etorki Explorateur Figue Filetta Fin-de-Siecle Fleur du Maquis Fondant de Brebis Fontainebleau Fougerus Fourme d' Ambert Fourme de Haute Loire Fourme de Montbrison Frinault Fromage a Raclette Fromage Corse Fromage de Montagne de Savoie Fromage Frais Galette du Paludier Galette Lyonnaise Gaperon a l'Ail Gastanberra Goutu Grand Vatel Grataron d' Areches Gratte-Paille Greuilh Gris de Lille Guerbigny Ile d'Yeu L'Aveyronnais L'Ecir de l'Aubrac La Taupiniere La Vache Qui Rit Laguiole Langres Laruns Le Brin Le Fium Orbo Le Lacandou Le Roule Lingot Saint Bousquet d'Orb Livarot Lou Palou Lou Pevre Lyonnais Macconais Mamirolle Margotin Maroilles Mascares Matocq Metton (Cancoillotte) Mimolette Mixte Mont D'or Lyonnais Morbier Morbier Cru de Montagne Mothais a la Feuille Munster Murol Nantais Neufchatel Niolo Olivet au Foin Olivet Bleu Olivet Cendre Ossau Fermier Ossau-Iraty P'tit Berrichon Palet de Babligny Pas de l'Escalette Pate de Fromage Patefine Fort Pave d'Affinois Pave d'Auge Pave de Chirac Pave du Berry Pelardon des Cevennes Pelardon des Corbieres Perail de Brebis Petit Morin Petit Pardou Petit-Suisse Picodon de Chevre Pithtviers au Foin Poivre d'Ane Pont l'Eveque Port-Salut Pouligny-Saint-Pierre Pourly Pyramide Quatre-Vents Quercy Petit Raclette Reblochon Regal de la Dombes Rigotte Rocamadour Rollot Romans Part Dieu Roquefort Roule Rouleau De Beaulieu Rustinu Sainte Maure Saint-Marcellin Saint-Nectaire Saint-Paulin Salers Sancerre Selles sur Cher Soumaintrain Sourire Lozerien St. Agur Blue Cheese Tamie Taupiniere Tomme Brulee Tomme d'Abondance Tomme de Romans Tomme de Savoie Tomme des Chouans Tommes Touree de L'Aubier Tourmalet Trappe (Veritable) Trois Cornes De Vendee Trou du Cru Truffe Valencay Venaco Vendomois Vieux Corse Vignotte
Formatted like a Frenchman would, of course. If you want it in a nice, neat list, go here.
So that's what the "Behold the Power of Cheese" advertising campaign was really referring to! ;-)
Just my opinion, and of course, it is an illogical thing to do, but one can dream.
Insulting as well as being a coward.
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