Lousy Videoblogging – The Politics of Cheese

This is the worst videoblog we’ve done to date. No merit to it whatsoever. As usual, horrendous video quality and sound–but good enough to make out what we’re saying and get the point.

Anyway, way back on July 12th (forever and a day in blogland), the blogger, A White Bear, posted Dear Rich People, STFU, in which she talks about how down at the co-op where she cuts cheese, a member of the “white global elite” who works beside her won’t lower herself to cutting plebian cheeses, such as cheddar. What’s more, she believes those who eat chedder couldn’t possibly have an evolved social conscience or any knowledge of politics.

Elite woman’s take?

Well, if they don’t start caring about art and good food, how can they expect to understand politics?

Another belief of the woman who refuses to cut, much less eat, cheddar?

Believe you me! Those private school children you’re mocking have far more of a chance to do great things in this world than all the middle class people put together. Do you think the middle class knows anything at all or cares at all about the right things?

Below is our videoblog response (me and son H.o.p.) to the woman who refuses to cut and eat cheddar, a testimony to how highly evolved we cheddar cutters are.

Are we not compassionate? Are we not aware? Are we not…intellectual?


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16 responses to “Lousy Videoblogging – The Politics of Cheese”

  1. Jennifer Avatar

    My youngest lamblet enjoyed this vlog immensely! I found myself laughing as well. I guess we’re not as evolved as I had assumed, but then again, cheddar has been known to find its way into our kitchen and cutting of the cheese has ensued.

    Who knew the cheese you cut could be such a barometer for evolution! I wonder if they’ll start asking us about what kind of cheese we cut before we’re allowed to vote! This cheese-cutting business is pretty serious stuff!

  2. Jim McCulloch Avatar

    My, this led me far astray this morning. Wanting to know the first instance of the usage cutting the cheese for farting, I went to the OED but got nowhere. Then Google. Upshot: I still don’t know the answer, but I suspect it has to do with gorgonzola rather than cheddar. But along the way I learn that Hitler (allegedly) suffered from meteorism and may have been driven mad by pills containing strychnine and atropine that he took several times a day for his condition.
    Anyway, only in a NY city coop would anyone think cheddar is truly prole; I grew up equating cheese with velveeta, which as I grew in sophistication I eventually took to be a normal kind of workingman’s cheese, as opposed to cheddar which woulda been very bluestocking in my neighborhood.
    This was a great videoblog, by the way.

  3. Idyllopus Avatar

    Jennifer, I had no idea that my taste for extra sharp sharp cheddar cheese identifies me as one of the great unwashed.

    Have I mentioned that I like to eat cottage cheese with ketchup and horseradish mustard? I guess that places me as slime in the gutter.

    Have you read my post where I met the coal mining mogul elite and what happened?

  4. Idyllopus Avatar

    Jim, I grew up on cheddar and velveeta. My grandparents ate colby. The really primo stuff for us was the sharp Kraft cheddar in the red foil packages. That was fancy.

    I’m glad it didn’t occur to me to look around to find out the first instance of the usage of “cutting the cheese” for farting, because I wouldn’t have wanted to spend my morning reading about Hitler. Not today.

    I did, the other day, look up “Lord love a duck”. It seems no one knows the origin of it.

  5. snowqueen Avatar

    ‘Love a duck’ is a cockney expression. And as cockney is rhyming slang …

  6. Susan Och Avatar

    Last night’s CNN News panic was about terrorists testing out their plots by attempting to put suspicious parcels into checked baggage at the airport. The package in Milwaukeee contained a cell phone charge and…….cheese!

    We spent our break time trying to craft a terrorist joke with the punchline “Who cut the cheese?” or “Qui a coupez le fromage?” because French is funnier.

  7. Idyllopus Avatar

    I wonder what social class of cheese it was.

  8. Susan Och Avatar

    I couldn’t tell. I’m always interested i what people are eating, so I was checking out the picture of the opened suspicios package. It looked like that cheese with caraway seeds in it, which a higher class person than I would surely know by name.

  9. Susan Och Avatar

    Here’s a Link with the photo I saw on TV. Plus more witty terrorist cheese comments.

  10. Jennifer Avatar

    Idyllopus- I think you need to do a test. I think you need to give up any contact with your beloved sharp, sharp, e-VIL cheddar for at least a week, maybe two, and then you can let us know how your life has improved… how the world of art, politics, etc, has opened up to you!

  11. Idyllopus Avatar

    Cheese with caraway seed is known as That Weird Office Christmas Gift Cheese, most frequently partnered with stale crackers in baskets or gaily colored cardboard boxes.

    Estonians have their own version, described here as “squeaky”:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/92846239@N00/830306045/

  12. Idyllopus Avatar

    Jennifer, you’re tempting me. I eat a good amount of cheddar but I could switch over to other cheeses for a week, certainly.

    I’ll think about it today.

  13. Susan Och Avatar

    I love squeaky cheese! I used to buy squeaky cheese curds when I lived in upstate New York from the CUba Cheese company in Cuba, New York. The guys who worked there all wore hats and beards and I thought they were Amish. They said they were Amish. Now that we know that cheese and terrorism go together it all seems so different……..

  14. Jennifer Avatar

    At least you ate the terrorist cheese over there so we don’t have to eat it here!!

  15. Susan Och Avatar

    This spells real trouble for the security crew at a Packers game. Is that plastic cheese on your head or plastic explosives?

  16. Idyllopus Avatar

    Squeaky cheese. I’ve never had squeaky cheese.

    But it’s a great idea for marketing to children. SQUEAKY CHEESE with cute squeaky mice on the packaging.

    Not that I’ll ever market squeaky mouse cheese, but please don’t steal my idea.

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