Hints and tips:
...After my cheese tasting, I marvelled at the mini-market’s Willy Wonka-esque display of vegan snacks from around the world....
...A rhesus monkey called Canto has lived to the human equivalent of 140 by eating two-thirds less than a normal monkey, but no one’s asked him if he’s enjoyed it....
...surrender monkey (FKA Sean Wagner)...
...Rich, unctuous, salty, funky, confusing, the soft, noodly tripe was napped with a walloping of cheese; eating it was like being punched on the nose. But I ate it all — happily, ravenously....
...But here the problem was not so much cheese eaters as surrender monkeys....
...We eat barbecued corn on the banks of the Napo as monkeys look covetously at our belongings. Here I suffer a sensation I get time and again on this trip, that of an alternate future....
...My resolve to order lightly — I usually avoid daytime eating altogether — melts in the glare of his keenness....
...Though recent, the neoconservative view of France as a nation of “cheese eating surrender monkeys” is now a memory. Yet the lessons of the Iraq invasion look ever more relevant....
...Just a decade ago, France’s opposition to the Iraq war led to its denunciation by American rightwingers, who famously labelled the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”....
...surrender monkeys”....
...But the French: the cheese-eating surrender monkeys who weren’t there for them over Iraq. We’ve always been there for the US (except on those occasions when we haven’t)....
...What about cheese? His face darkens. “I’m anti-cheese in a salad. I don’t think the tastes are …” he pauses, searching for the word, “ …complementary.”...
...Europe today has lots of political problems but it’s not lampooned by the Americans for being a host of cheese-eating surrender monkeys for nothing....
...“Cheese and bacon with that?” Well, why not?...
...Foreigners just sneered at “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”. This autumn, French workers protested against the raising of the retirement age....
...“But these days we often feel like monkeys in the zoo, having our photographs taken by tourists,” she adds....
...France was derided in the US as a nation of “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” only because it broke definitively with Washington so late....
...The inquiry are going to summarise what they’ve heard on this. 2.15pm: He hasn’t called Chirac “a cheese-eating surrender monkey” yet. Can’t be long though. 2.12pm: Sir Rodric takes over again....
...It’s like cheese-eating surrender monkeys all over again. Look how well that turned out....
...Relations reached a nadir under Jacques Chirac when the French were derided by US rightwingers as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” for their refusal to back the war in Iraq....
...More specifically, Ratatouille may represent a late detente between America and France, in which cheese-eating surrender monkeys have changed species if not taste preference....
...Feeling mildly intimidated, not least by Bolton’s warlike moustache, I venture an ill-timed joke: “Well of course, everyone will instantly think of that phrase ‘Cheese-eating surrender monkeys’,” I say,...
...surrender monkeys.”...
...Yes, France, home of French fries and cheese-eating surrender monkeys....
...Contrary to their image as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys”, the French have the statistical distinction of being the most belligerent nation on earth....
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