Tonight, I’m going to present another cheese.
Look at the photo below.
What you see is a piece of Camembert, a cheese made from raw cow’s milk.
A cheese columnist described an authentic Camembert as having "hints of garlic, barnyard and ripe laundry."
This cheese was stored to ripen and as you can see on the photo, it’s beginning to melt. it’s very stinky.
Now imagine the scene.
We are in 2070. The users of the forum are gathered in a farm, in France.
Humbert and shadow.97 are watching an episode of Dallas (it’s an old VHS tape). I still remember the opening credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfHcCLn4pkAa1234779 and Vasudev, the strong men, have to manually run an energy generator, with bare hands, since there is no more electricity. The last power plants shut down decades ago. For those who are learning the French language on the forum, note that the word decade is a false friend in French. If you are a literary of technical translator and if you are translative out of your mother tongue, you can’t use the French word “décade”, which means a period of 10 days. Instead, you will use “décennie”.
Meanwhile, usman and topdog are in the kitchen. They are checking the cheese for the meal.
At the end of the meal, I have the feeling that humbert is ready to meet a difficult challenge. Usman just brought an old picodon, and I know that humbert is not hard to please. This one smells like old socks. I’m pouring some wine in the glass of humbert. A Château Figeac, one of the most famous wine appellations of St Emilion red wines, with Château Cheval Blanc and Château Ausone. Humbert is really happy to taste a new cheese, and he adressed the challange without any major difficulties. Then I’m serving Maher, Vasudev and Usman some wine, with a slice of camembert and a piece of bread. But I notice that Usman is not eating his piece of cheese. Does he have finicky tastes or are there worms in the cheese? Usman tells me that something is wrong: this camembert is particularly stinky. But I reassure him: it proves that the cheese is ripe. That’s why we need to double box them to avoid stinking the house out.
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