While we’re on the subject of France, I think I got to get me one of these:
The yearly calendar frenzy has emerged [in France] as an unlikely occasion for the country’s cheese-makers to try their hand at soft-core porn.
Launched in 2006, the From’Girls calendar (‘from’ being short for fromage or cheese) is now something of an institution according to one regional daily. The concept is pretty straightforward, if not necessarily appetising. The calendar features 12 women, clad in what looks like the weekend wardrobe of a 40-something with a penchant for rural swinging. Posing provocatively and slathered in make-up, the only seriously abnormal aspect of the pin-up calendar is that each of the women is clutching a giant slab of stinking cheese.
“Not necessarily appetising”? “Abnormal”? Please. So judgmental. Let’s work together to stamp out from’-ophopbia. And anyone who knows where to source one of these gems is urged to forward this information on as a matter of urgency.
Prick With A Fork 
Dear Mr Prick, like you, I found these images thoroughly enticing. It looks like you can order this year’s calendar and some from previous years’ as well, at this link:
http://www.fromages-de-terroirs.com/commande_en.php
They even have paypal!
Oh, and if you want to use pay pal, the button only works on the original French language page, not if you use Chrome to translate the page into English.
Blessed are the Cheese makers!
I don’t know about you, but feel a new fetish coming into the zeitgeist.
You could be onto something Pas.
If your significant other had a Stilton and Gorgonzola addiction, you could forget about personal hygiene forever. Think of the opportunities, “yes darling I have showered, that smell?. oh sweetheart, I know how much you adore blue cheese, I thought I’d rub it all over me before bed tonight, you know, in case you wanted a “bite”.
or, “no darling, the test results were clear. That creamy stuff is Gorgonzola, I thought I’d have a dip”.
I know, I know, you’re feeling a bit queasy now. That said though, I adore stinky cheeses. I was recently given a twenty odd year old bottle of a German Riesling which has gone syrupy. I’m going to buy the most disgusting blue I can find and bake a walnut and fig sourdough to have with it. Nirvana.
p.s. I believe that calendar is way cool!
Got my Calendar on Friday, and it’s very nice. My teenage girls are the product of the modern education system, and said that it objectified women. I said, “but look at the cheese!”