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Episode: France remains βle grand fromageβ in the European Union, and Camembert remains in a wooden box
Description: The European Union has long known that the way to France's heart is through its stomach. So, don't touch the Camembert β never, ever. Legislators at the European Parliament made sure it won't happen anytime soon.
Tucked in a proposal on streamlining and optimizing waste management throughout the 27-nation bloc, some French cheese producers in recent weeks sniffed out something and turned it into a culinary stink.
They claimed that the proposal's wording would make it illegal for the famous cheese to be cradled into its usual wooden packaging for its final weeks of ripening and, eventually, sale. The round box is...