all you need to know about the cheese business

[gordonzola]

I've been asked to proofread a short, fact-based article about two local cheesemakers because neither of them can read it with going into a frothing rage. Why? Because their families had bad blood from the dissolution of their partnership.

In 1948.

Comments

[gwenzilla.livejournal.com]

I am trying to come up with a pun on "Hatfields and McCoys" using cheese names instead for over an hour now but I am too ignorant.

[spoonfeeding.livejournal.com]

hahaha, sometimes it's enough just to tell the premise of the joke to get a laugh

[ilipodscrill.livejournal.com]

can i read this? (i meant to ask when you told me about it yesterday) gotta love those hot-blooded italians. wanna go see the husbands in the east bay monday night?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you can read it but it's pretty boring. none of the blood fued stuff is in there and there are lots of passive verbs so no one will get upset. the fact that this boring, dry article has them upset is the funniest thing of all.

[jwz.livejournal.com]

Open source people often quote the Kissinger line, "Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low," and note that their stakes are even lower.

Then, we learn, there's cheese.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

what do you mean low stakes? it's CHEESE, Man!

[nickyludd.livejournal.com]

Why is this quoted by Open Source folk?

I realise that the answer may be very complicated, so don't feel obliged to answer - but heck I dinnae need write that, but now I have, so there.

[jwz.livejournal.com]

Not complicate at all -- just because their politics are especially petty and vicious, and the stakes are so very, very low indeed.

[nickyludd.livejournal.com]

So they ain't fluffy and luverly? Hum, cheesemakers and trots and open sourcers better not all get together.

[goodbadgirl.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

There's a remark about "When cheese goes bad..." that is lurking in the undergrowth.

[nickyludd.livejournal.com]

They're not Welsh perchance?

My ma once droned on re how unpleasant the father of an ex-school pal of mine was - with a painfully detailed story of his rudeness when working behind the Post Office counter, as if it had happened a coupla weeks previous. I asked, amazed: 'But, hasn't he retired by now?'. She replied, as if stating the obvious: 'Oh, that was twenty years ago'.

I grew up in North West Wales.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

they're Italian-American. It seems that almost every Italian cheese making company and distributor in Northern California started because they hated some other Itlaian family.

[nickyludd.livejournal.com]

Be fun if there were Trot cheesemakers.

[freshwater-pr0n.livejournal.com]

With us, the old saw is that the only thing upon which two dog trainers can agree is what a third trainer is doing wrong.

But geez - 1948? What can you do to cheese that can make someone hate you for half a century?

[teabee.livejournal.com]

awesome.

ew

[chitinous.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned elsewhere, on my f-list, this post sits right next to

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As I mentioned elsewhere, on my f-list, this post sits right next to <lj-user "spoonfeeding">'s heartfelt haiku.

Re: ew

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes, it takes all kinds of cheese to satisfy LJ. I loved that post.