Word: camemberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades, perhaps centuries, before the woman called Marie Harel was born, farmers and their wives in the green, rolling valley near the Norman town of Vimoutiers were making a rich, creamy cheese known as Camembert. Like the rest of them, Marie, whose years spanned the latter half of the 18th century, probably made and relished the cheese herself, but beyond that, no one in Vimoutiers recalled that she had any special connection with it. There was, true, a local legend that one of Marie's relatives had once been received by Napoleon III and had given...
...wrote 29-year-old Clerk William Borst, onetime clochard, to Le Monde, "that M. Vexliard's work is a masterpiece of erudition . . . but has he roamed the streets on a winter night looking for a corner to sleep in? Has he had a fist fight over a rotten Camembert? Has he had his shirt full of lice? I am only a former clochard but I affirm that 99.5% of clochards drink. The only thing for which a clochard ever stirs is red wine. Real clochards are not redeemable. They are Bohemians and will fall to pieces the minute they...
...doubling, it will have increased 1,024 times. In the unlikely event that the food supply will have kept pace, another mere thousand years of doubling will certainly bring the end. In the year 3953 A.D., the earth will be felted with people as thick as mold on a Camembert cheese, and they will need 1,000,000 times as much food as is produced today. "It is quite impossible," says Darwin, "for any arithmetical progression to fight against a geometrical progression." When arithmetic finally loses to geometry, human increase must stop. Most babies that are born will die from...
...Premier browbeat some segments of industry into chopping prices (wholesale prices dropped 7.7%). He poked into shops and department stores to watch prices and buying habits. In one food store, he watched as a shopkeeper cut a Camembert cheese in half and then priced each half differently. "Always-you hear me, always," Pinay reported indignantly, "the women asked for the more expensive piece." The story is told that Pinay, unable one weekend to get his customary haircut at St. Chamond, went to a Paris barber, and was shocked when he was charged twice what he usually paid back home...
...Faced with two halves of the same Camembert cheese, one carrying a bigger price tag than the other, French housewives "always" ("You hear me-always") ask for the more expensive piece. ¶Presented with both halves of the same bolt of cloth, customers not only buy the higher-priced half but actually invent reasons justifying the price difference...