2 cheese opinions for the price of one

Creamy round cheese – like cream cheese, but more exciting…cheesier tasting. Saltier? Tasted really good in my avocado, garlic, tomato salad.

Regional round of Goat cheese – regional goat cheese, this one had that cream cheese, but saucier vibe that I like so much about goat cheese. I like it that its sorta crumbly or like, harder than cream cheese, and its got that really interesting “is it mold?” bubbly outside. Its also really good hot. MMm! Strange cheeses!

ps I will be adding pictures of said cheeses soon, so worry not!

Garlic flavored Goat cheese nibbles - aperatif of champions

Excellent crumbled on salad, very legit with your drinks (l'aperatif) before dinner. Fun to eat b/c they look like little thimbles and they’re sortof like, crunchy like rocks. Def. liked the garlic flavor more than the red pepper or “herves de provence” flavors.

I like cheese that have pictures of smiling goats on them.

Its a Lovely Pyrenees Cheese Holiday with Lori

It had the cool holey consistency, with the added bonus of a black crust...ooo, spooky...and it tastes like swiss cheese/bitter cream cheese in a softer, more bouncy cheese form.

I am not a food critic, so if these cheese confessionals sound like I’m reviewing mattresses, enjoy the humor and give me the benefit of the doubt. I am trying to delve into the gastrointestinal soul of a nation!

Annecy cheese is good enough for me

Melts well, has the cool and intimidating outer skin that looks like bark, has spicy taste at first. I LOVE THIS CHEESE. Its got little bubbles in it and its sortof soft.

I had to seek out this cheese in some random regional goods store in Annecy, France where they have lovely mountain ranges on a lake, and I am glad I did b/c I love it (and I can see that I can buy it at the Atac, which is my french version of Schnucks, though I do miss Schnucks... the store, not the people really!!! Must learn the name of this cheese)

I got you Cheese - Cancouilloute

Another great cheese. It's sortof the consistency of glue, but in an awesome way.

The best is pink garlic flavor, and it truly makes for great pasta sauce. There is also a song about it, and I like it b/c Phillipe and Agnes first introduced me to it and I totally heart Phillipe and Agnes…so the concouilloute makes me think of their awesomeness.

Annual Cheese Reviews

Cheese instalments- here's the part where I tell you about all the different cheese I'm eating/trying to eat here in France. I was partly inspired by my boss at Testimo's Brandy, and partly by my love of cheese, and partly by Phillipe, Agnes' (awesome teacher friend) husband, who approves of my cheese discovery endeavor.

I was talking to Phillipe and I told him I always try to buy a new cheese everytime I go to the market and he was like, Lori, if you buy a new cheese everyday, you’d have to stay in France for something like 3 years to try all the cheeses.

Well Phillipe, I don’t know if I can get a cheese-trying Visa (though, if any country were to have such a Visa, France would be the one, snaps) I am on my cheese adventure nonetheless!

La Commedia Italiana

Silvia, our Guinness-loving Italian, keeps it real when her new roommate Missouri Michael asks her if b/c she is Italian, is she therefore Communist???

“Yes Michael, I will make you red pasta, and I only drink red wine.”

She's a funny lady.

Some other points:
French guy took off his clothes in Johnny Walsh’s – the French way apparently, is to remove your clothes at any moment where it would seem gratuitous…at least that’s what Emma’s undressing soccer player friend said when she asked him why he was changing for soccer practice in front of her…. “it’s the French way!”
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Mexican food in lyon – is that Swiss cheese on my burrito?

STL thought of the moment : How cool would a Shuttle system be for St. Louis?

Holly got eaten by a spider, we went to the Pharmacist, and she is now ok.
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – I guess she’ll die.

French people doing things I don’t understand moment:
They will not stop making out
- Especially weird when they come up for air, this one the girl starts singing “I’m your Venus” relatively loudly. Hmm?
- there's this one girl who rides my bus occasionally and she wears a rat. A LIVE one. Now, I'm all for people being able to express themselves through fashion, even if they choose bizzare ways. To those who overly judge the popped collar and the "legging" I say - hey, leave the people alone, maybe it works for them. Rats, however, I cannot condone, b/c really live rats are the one trend that I would be in danger of wearing AS WELL were such a fashion victim to pass me by and the rat to jump on me. When people with leggings walk by me, there is not chance that in that moment (though at other moments I have chosen the legging, with no shame) I too will instantaneously be sporting the legging. With rats, there is a chance.

Therefore, I do not support the wearing of rats as accessories.