You know those round boxes of processed cheese? The ones with individual cheese wedges wrapped in tinfoil like a presentation counter for 50 years of playing Trivial Pursuit?
Used to love them as a kid.
Calvita cheese had a little blondy young one on the front like someone off the BBC test card, only she was a typical Irish Cailin type from the 1970s and she didn't have a blackboard or a bunch of coloured squares or a slightly scary stuffed toy around her. I see she's gone missing from the brand in recent times. There's a modern blondy young one on the labels now. Don't know why they did away with the first one when all that 70s stuff is getting back into fashion.
Anyhow, the machine that wrapped the cheesy bits in their little silver rounded triangles used to fix the tinfoil tighter than a trumpters arse on a high C note. And at the corners it was battened down so well that I copied the technique for wrapping foreign brown paper parcels for Christmas. Ask any of my family that live abroad and they'll tell you a special samurai from the post office has to be used to open my brown paper packages.
Anyhoo... Herself decided I was looking a bit thin, so she bought a couple of packets of the cheesy goodness for me. I was most disappointed when I went to open the box.
First, the box itself was hermetically sealed with a tear strip around it. Most modern and not a bit nostalgic. I opened it up and took out a couple of the cheesy triangles. Happily, they were still folded at the corners like the nuns were running the hospitals and scaring country girl nurses into the correct way of making the beds. But there was a little red stub sticking out.
"Not another bloody tear strip!" I shouted. "The convenience of it all!"
"What's wrong?" Herself asked from under a pile of washing she'd just carried in from the line, while also ironing a shirt with one foot.
"Oh this is no good! Sure, what's the point if you can't get bits of processed cheese up your fingernails? Lookit!"
I tugged at the red stub and the little silver package opened magically all around its outside like a zipper on my favourite rubber bed wear.
I still ate the cheese. But under protest though.
And I picked a bit off to go under my fingernails.
You have to have some standards.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
The Judge Dredd Mega City 1 version of a cheese triangle
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I can just picture it all Willie *S*
My other half has the cheese so squashed up by the time he manages to open the said foil wrapping that it is no use for eating. Guess who usually opens it for him ?
In our slimming class one night we were talking about cheese and which one's were high in calories etc. I piped up that I thought the "light cow" cheese was lovely on toast instead of butter. Had to think about why they were all laughing, The name of the cheese, with a laughing cow on the front of the triangle box is called "Laughing Cow, Light " "So what " say's I, " I was close ". MMMM must buy some of that " light cow " today. *S*
You were right Willie, I laughed, that really stupid laughter where you end up kind of hyperventilating. Yeah man, elephants!!
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