Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
Alcohol is a great grease-cutter. :mrgreen:

:hehe:

Tis true...well when you don't have to worry about driving back home, and have the good fortune of taking a train it definitely affects your decision on whether or not to drink more, when you're already buzzed. :drink:

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Cheesy French calendar promotes farm-fresh fromage
Fri Dec 11, 2009

By Claire Watson

PARIS (Reuters Life!) - They are soft, round and all in the best possible taste - the cheeses that is, not the pin-up girls promoting them.

But the "From Girls" are a group of cheese fans prepared to pose in their underwear for a pictorial calendar promoting regional French fromage.

The pin-up calendar was the idea of the Association of traditional French cheesemakers, "Fromage des Terroirs", who say that far from being a cliche, the calendar smashes the unflattering stereotype of the frumpy French farm wife.

"It is true that the association between woman and products isn't original in itself, but cheese and pin-ups is a bit better, because we are relatively limited in our cliches of regional products in France," Veronique Richez-Lerouge, the association's president said.

She said promoting rural French products with the standard images of fat farm wives in rubber boots alongside Granddad carrying a baguette under his arm has become a bit tacky.

"I thought that associating pin-ups, who associate beauty and aesthetic refinement is a way of bringing this 'art de vivre' back to the French, it is what we are so reputed for."

The saucy French calendar has certainly been selling like hotcakes, with people ordering them from all over the world.

"Why not? If it brings them to us instead of the big distributors, it's good," said one Parisian cheese-seller, who gave his name as Stephan.

The connection between the well-formed pin-ups and the traditional products is that it is basically about form, Richez-Lerouge said.

"Cheese in Latin, in old French, means 'form'," she said. "You have round cheeses, triangular cheeses, square cheeses, heart-shaped cheese, it is the same subject we have here."

"Barbara Munster", "Roxane Cantal" and the other From Girls pictured in the calendar aren't professional models or cheese industry employees either. They just have a passion for one of the bare essentials of French food.

bmwracer wrote:
Alcohol is a great grease-cutter. :mrgreen:

Thanks! Since I'm not much of a drinker, I didn't know that.

Sengo wrote:

Thanks! Since I'm not much of a drinker, I didn't know that.

You could always resort to drinking tea which they offer...it helps with digestion.

Tu_triky wrote:You could always resort to drinking tea which they offer...it helps with digestion.

Yeah, the tannic acid in tea is also a grease-cutter... Maybe not as good as alcohol, though. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, the tannic acid in tea is also a grease-cutter... Maybe not as good as alcohol, though. :mrgreen:

Definitely not as fun. ;)

Tu_triky wrote:Definitely not as fun. ;)

True. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
True. :mrgreen:

Hehe. In any event, Horon is pretty good and has a nice variety of food items at a good price.

Honestly the only other kushiage or kushikatsu restaurant that I know of in L.A. is Kushinobo on the second floor of Weller Court in Little Tokyo...that's if it's even still there.... :sweat: Kushinobo is actually the name of a kushiage restaurant chain in Japan with locations in Tokyo and Osaka....but the L.A. one pales in comparison to the Kushinobo in Japan. I ate at the one in Tokyo in Roppongi Hills.

Tu_triky wrote:Cheesy French calendar promotes farm-fresh fromage

Anywhere in the world, sex, er cheese, sells. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Anywhere in the world, sex, er cheese, sells. :mrgreen:

Apparently :mrgreen:

I had never heard of that cheesy calendar promotional campaign until now....but it's been around for a few years...guess b/c it's French and probably geared toward Europe.

Tu_triky wrote:I had never heard of that cheesy calendar promotional campaign until now....but it's been around for a few years...guess b/c it's French and probably geared toward Europe.

Maybe the Fromage Girls will give the Snap-On Tools Girls a run for their money. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Maybe the Fromage Girls will give the Snap-On Tools Girls a run for their money. :mrgreen:

Cheese-Ratchet Wrench Challenge. Game on! :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:Cheese-Ratchet Wrench Challenge. Game on! :hehe:

LOL. :rofl:

Cheese slicing knife vs. #2 Phillips Screwdriver at 20 paces. :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL. :rofl:

Cheese slicing knife vs. #2 Phillips Screwdriver at 20 paces. :hehe:

:rofl:

As long as the appropriate "attire" is worn I shall referee this duel of honor.

Tu_triky wrote:As long as the appropriate "attire" is worn I shall referee this duel of honor.

A la Iron Chef? :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
A la Iron Chef? :victory:

<runs to the market to buy a bell pepper and dons Liberace costume>

Tu_triky wrote:<runs to the market to buy a bell pepper and dons Liberace costume>

You could also borrow the costume from Prince in his Purple Rain/Revolution days. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
You could also borrow the costume from Prince in his Purple Rain/Revolution days. :mrgreen:

Perfectly fitting. :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:Perfectly fitting. :hehe:

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bmwracer wrote:
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:lol: That is so spot on! The emcee on Iron Chef wished he had those threads.