Saturday 6 November 2010

Government's free EU cheese plan grates on Irish public

Government plans to distribute EU cheese among Ireland’s poorest in the run-up to Christmas are creating an awful stink in some quarters. Indeed, I am told that callers to Joe Duffy’s Liveline were going crackers about it. 

Some of them even drew rather stiltoned parallels with the French revolution, substituting Marie’s infamous cake suggestion with Brian’s supposed "let them eat cheese" .   Or how about "let them gorge themselves on Cheddar"?

Talk of such edaming upheaval in an Irish context is just blarney however. It is not in our culture, you see. No, the fat cats will continue to get feta while the whole crisis brieses over, just when it seems that people camembert any more.

By offering charity, however, it seems that Government ministers have underestimated the pride of the grate Irish public. How could they make such ementhal mistake? You’ve gouda wonder.

Better stop now, in queso you’ve had enough.

Sorry.

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11 comments:

Ella said...

Hi GM, I'm surprised you haven't had any cheesy comments yet!

Anonymous said...

i hope its winsleydale grommit pk

Lew said...

I cant see the problem, I'd really LOVE someone to give me free cheese, the more the better.

ger said...

its EU white chedar i have some here at home, it a very nice cheese. sure let the bankers builders and all the fat kats ride and rape us poor in to the ground! i dont care once i get some more of that cheese??????? I LUV MY COUNTRY AND I LUV BEEN IRISH, BUT I HATE WHAT IS RUNNING OUR COUNTRY, REVOLUTION!!!!!Ger.

Anonymous said...

great little country GM if you are a mouse or even a micky mouse mouse in a joke shop too bad about the iminent arrival of the imf to spoil the fun and shut down the joke shop -BH

Anonymous said...

Make a cow laugh...

Anonymous said...

Its time for our leader Brian, or should we just call him Julius Cheese-er, to give this subject his unfeta'd attention. Free cheese isn't going to get us out of the toasted mess we're in ... and his foot soldiers telling us to "let it brie" while the country falls apart????
Time to sit right down and write himself a cheddar! To brie or not to brie Brian? THAT is the question!

Anonymous said...

Fromage to Eternity.... sigh

The Gombeen Man said...

Ha! And I thought I'd used up all the mouldy cheese puns!!! ;-)

Anonymous said...

Mr Gombeenman
Irish wit is very, very Gouda !!!. It causes the smiles like a Chesire cat. Mr Brian Cowan is most "Krafty", but he is sadly in need of fat free Cottage Cheese. He needs the "Be Cheeses" knocked out of him.

Signor Parmesan

Anonymous said...

"A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk"
James Joyce