http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1105/cheese.html :-\
This will hardly have them dancing in the streets of <insert your own deprived area here>
Cue the puns....
No pun, but is this a joke? Free cheese????
Fcuk me.
Quote from: AZOffaly on November 05, 2010, 10:45:20 AM
No pun, but is this a joke? Free cheese????
Fcuk me.
No joke.....I know....you couldnt fcukin make it up....
When I heard this I immediately thought of this (Monthy Python cheese shop sketch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0&p=2687E8E307C732C7&playnext=1&index=18
I have a vague memory that free cheese was handed out in the North a while back - 10/15yrs ago - to pensioners? Think there were other handouts in addition to the cheese.
Quote from: aontroim on November 05, 2010, 10:55:04 AM
I have a vague memory that free cheese was handed out in the North a while back - 10/15yrs ago - to pensioners? Think there were other handouts in addition to the cheese.
the good ole intervention cheese and butter was given out to pensioners. There may have been a bit of beef as well.
Strangely enough the wine lakes never made their way over here
QuoteGaltee cheese is a long time favourite of Irish consumers the world over. It is available in block or slice format.
Calvita is a sister product of Galtee being milder and creamer in taste. Indeed it is the first cheese that many Irish consumers were exposed to as children thus it has huge nostalgic appeal
Vote FF and here's a block of Calvita for the childer.
That's not very mature.
That explains all the cheese talk I've been listening to all morning...
This whole story stinks!
This govt just don't give edam :-[
Leave it Brie Tubber.
Is still actually going to happen? A feta d'compli?
All this cheese talk has me feeling Blue
The EEC beef was good stuff as well.
The butter wrecked a load of arteries.
Glad to get back to Flora.
any chance of getting some wine and crackers along with the cheese!... ;)
Quote from: orangeman on November 05, 2010, 11:38:18 AM
The EEC beef was good stuff as well.
The butter wrecked a load of arteries.
Glad to get back to Flora.
Please tell me you don't commit the mortal sin of Ireland and put flora on boiled spuds?
Will people be handed out Vouchers with their dole for cheese and will it become currency like the Butter Vouchers did all those years ago?
Never understood how that worked.
In a previous job, there were four girls who did nothing all except count butter vouchers, they were always in good form and I couldn't fathom it out.
Quote from: orangeman on November 05, 2010, 11:38:18 AM
The EEC beef was good stuff as well.
The butter wrecked a load of arteries.
Glad to get back to Flora.
http://www.stop-trans-fat.com/butter-v-margarine.html
I can't believe it's not butter there're giving out.
Quote from: aontroim on November 05, 2010, 10:55:04 AM
I have a vague memory that free cheese was handed out in the North a while back - 10/15yrs ago - to pensioners? Think there were other handouts in addition to the cheese.
A little earlier than that, if my memory is correct. It was during the 80s. I think the free cheese was distributed by the Post Office.
Poor joe duffy up to his eyes today with it.
'If they haven't got bread let them eat Cheese'
Cheeses! They cheddar thrown in a bottle of wine as well. It's the least they gouda done.
I can understand the point of free cheese but what was the point of free butter. At least you can just eat the cheese. You can't eat butter on its own.
Let them eat Cheesecake!
Quote from: Capt Pat on November 05, 2010, 03:21:56 PM
I can understand the point of free cheese but what was the point of free butter. At least you can just eat the cheese. You can't eat butter on its own.
People where saying that most people would use butter but would not use cheese everyday..
Would this be classed as Free Derry ? ;D
Quote from: johnneycool on November 05, 2010, 11:49:29 AM
Quote from: orangeman on November 05, 2010, 11:38:18 AM
The EEC beef was good stuff as well.
The butter wrecked a load of arteries.
Glad to get back to Flora.
Please tell me you don't commit the mortal sin of Ireland and put flora on boiled spuds?
Relax. EEC butter went on the spuds. Flora for the bread.
All joking aside. The notion of free food of one sort of another for poorer people has been ongoing in Ireland for ages, this is nothing new. What we got today was an idiotic minister (the brainless Brendan Smith) making an announcement implying that this was something new, a fantastic new give away from the government! I don't know if that is the most depressing thing or whether it is the idea that Smith can see nothing wrong with following up on announcements of huge cuts and higher tax (totaling 6bn) by offering poor people free cheese.
after the budget we will all be looking for free cheese.
country is on its hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLUEMj6cwA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLUEMj6cwA)
All we need now is Gormless opening up the Ministry of Silly Walks!!! Cheesemakers are blessed in the Lives of Brians!!!
think i remember them handing out tinned meat as well back then-it normally went to the poor unfortunate dog