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A house made of cheese? I'd move in tomorrow!
Sheri has requested a story about cheese. And I am a people-pleasing kind of people.
All of my life, I've been rather obsessed with cheese. Not necessarily with eating it or being a connoisseur - because I only really developed a taste for exotic cheeses in the last year - but mostly with the word and the concept of "cheese".
In middle school, "cheesy" (and its middle-school-French translation, fromagey) was one of our favorite words. We used it in the normal connotation, of something that was kitschy or ridiculous, but I seem to remember also going through a period where "cheesy" meant "good". Who knows? We wore our coats upside-down and inside out, too. We were strange children.
The height of our cheese obsession was probably late in high school, when my friend Becky hosted our Cheese Party. Dude, we are such nerds. Anyway, everyone brought a different cheese or cheese-related food. We had cheddar cheese and crackers, cheez whiz, Wensleydale, cheez curls, and cheesecake for dessert. We stuffed our faces and watched Wallace & Gromit videos.
Cheese is good. To an extent. There really are limits to the amount of cheese you should or can eat at one time, especially when you are 16 or 17 years old and can't drink wine to cut through the cheese. There really is no other beverage to drink with such vast amounts of cheese. It makes me feel rather ill just thinking of the amounts of cheese we ate.
I don't think "cheesy" meant "good" anymore after that.
srah - Friday, 26 September 2003 - 8:16 PM
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Comments (14)
Cheryl - September 29, 2003 - 1:04 PM - ℓ
"It's fromagey in the springtime, it's fromagey in the fall, it's fromagey summer, when the trees are tall. It's fromagey door to door, it's fromagey on the floor, oh fromagey, you're never a bore."
I bet you didn't expect this from me! I *could* go on.
sammie - December 14, 2003 - 1:27 AM - ℓ
cheese is goooood!!!
bluch - December 28, 2003 - 8:31 PM - ℓ
i like cheez. by the way, its spelled with a Z, morons. why does every1 spell cheez with the stupid "se"????? it makes me mad. OK. I like cheez.
melissa - May 18, 2004 - 5:26 PM - ℓ
HEY EVRE 1 I COME FROM THE GREAT CHEESE STATE OF WISCONSIN!!!! I LUV IT HERE!!! WE HAVE THE BEST CHEESE AND WE CAN GET IT FOR PRACTICALLY NOTHING!!! IT ROCKS!!! :)
C ALL YA CHEESE LUVERS LATA!! :)
bic - May 24, 2004 - 10:06 AM - ℓ
you americans are cheese mad. have you ever tried halummee (not sure of spelling) mmmmm its the best mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
The first thing I do when I get to my moms or my grandmas is hit the fridge and grab a slice of cheese. My brother and sister do the same thing and now our kids do it.
Mmmm...cheese....