mousehands : ask philip

Cheeses, as we all know, are regional. Unlike wines - which are well travelled and have phrase books covering basic Spanish, French, German and Finnish - cheese rarely seek to appease the locals and shout in their native tongue, hoping against hope that they will be understood the louder they become. Red Leicester and Smoked Caerphilly are amongst the worst offenders. While on holiday in the Algarve, one cheese was overheard to say “Damn foreigners, where can I get a proper meal instead of this heathen muck?”