Crumbling Dollar Lifts Wisconsin Blue Cheese

Another victim of the disastrous Bush economic polices and the war in Iraq is the absence of the finest European cheeses from swank east coast restaurants.  As the Village Voice reports, How Chefs Are Dealing With the Tanking Dollar: Getting creative with imported goods

Recently, I (reporter Sarah DiGregorio) realized that I could no longer afford my favorite stinky French cheese (not that I ever really could, technically)...

At Kellari Taverna...Greek feta, once crumbled over many dishes, is now only on the tomato salad..."It's killing us!" exclaims Gregory Zapantis, the Greek-born chef at Kellari Taverna. "A few years back, it was equal—one dollar to one euro. Now the euro is $1.60."

The concerned New York culinary reporter turned to an economist who specializes in wine economics to discover that, "... the government spends more than it has, putting us in hock to the Europeans, Japanese, and Chinese to pay for Bush's tax cuts and the war in Iraq."

But the inventive mid-town Manhattan chefs now turn to Bucky when times are tough, "Zapantis has fallen in love with the fish he gets from Long Island in the summertime. And he's happy to have discovered Wisconsin blue cheese as an unlikely alternative to feta."

Comments

[antpoppa]

Never fear: The Amero is here.
Soon to appear at a global bank near you!

[Ron]

I just hope this hasn't caused the price of Bree to be to high, otherwise all the liberal elitists won't have anything to eat with all of their WHINE!!

[antpoppa]

Ah, Bree... are you a Hobbit or a simple troll? I believe the cheese is spelled brie, Bree is a town in Middle Earth.

[Steve Vokers]

Why on Earth would they susbtitute blue cheese for feta? They aren't remotely similar.

And dammit, someone should send him some Wisconsin feta.

[Charlie]

(Sophomoric humor alert) They'll just have to CUT THE CHEESE into smaller pieces!