We are from France. We consume mass quantities of cheese.
Posted on 03/30/2021 12:01:58 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A ancient monastery of cheesemaking French monks left with nearly 3 tons of overstock because of COVID-19 lockdowns cleared its cupboards with some modern help.
The Cîteaux Abbey, just south of Dijon in the heart of Burgundy, France, normally sells its raw-milk, semi-soft cheese wheels to restaurants and visitors to the monastery, which was founded in 1098. But with restaurants in France closed since October and tourism limited, the abbey’s 19 Trappist monks saw sales drop by half.
“We need to clear out our stock,” brother Jean-Claude, in charge of marketing at the monastery, told The Guardian. The abbey had 4,000 cheese wheels, totaling about 2.8 tons, and it needs to unload some of that.
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Those smelly French semi-soft cheeses aren’t my thing... very much an acquired taste which I have yet to acquire, I guess. But God bless these monks for doing their thing.
I wonder if the Abbey of Gethsemani in Bardstown, KY is having the same kind of problem?
What about the cheese cooperative of Nazareth, PA. called “cheeses of Nazareth”?
CC
Coneheads: We are also from France and consume mass quantities of charred mammal flesh (avec le fromage).
Although I'm not Catholic, I spent an overnight retreat with my comparative religion class at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1973. It was a real eye opener. I never realized that anyone would get up every three hours through the night and into every day to pray. They read a very long prayer list that lasted for twenty minutes at least, for private individuals and the publicly well known.
Our instructor was really excited to speak with monks who had known the venerated Thomas Merton, even though I had never heard of him at that time.
“Blessed are the Cheesemakers...”
My cat is a cheese fiend.
He will attack you for your cheese.
The only cheeses he turns up his muzz at: French cheeses.
Go figure.
French cheeses are the best!
Unfortunate you have such a Philistine cat.
I like all kinds of foreign cheeses.
So does the furball.
Just not French.
Especially the squishy kind.
Even if it has a half inch of black fuzzy mold on top?
Yum!
Of course, then again, I don’t like Fancy Feast.
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