The Cheese Nazis strike again

[DoomYoshi]

No Wensleydale allowed in Canada, unless you want to pay a 300% tariff.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada ... -1.5811269

It also protects Canada's supply-managed products, so I want to be very clear that there is no new market access for cheese here in this transition agreement.

This still needs to pass the House of Commons, so please pester your local representative.

#NoLibertyWithoutCheese

[jonesthecurl]

Arthur Wensleydale?

[2dimes]

Just drive down to Michigan.

[mookiemcgee]

you could buy it from the USA who imports it without the tariffs. Globalism is fun!!!

I'd offer to buy it for you and ship it, but the state of CA has warned me that it may contain an chemical which may have some association with an elevated risk of cancer (Bisphenol A)... but the warning is only when it's being consumed by Californians in California so you should be ok.

[Dukasaur]

Imports from a 3rd country are not covered by NAFTA. Buying French cheese in the U.S. and moving it to Canada subjects it to the same tariff as if you brought it directly from France.

The government is stupid, but they're not total idiots...

[2dimes]

I have never been charged a tariff on any cheese I have eaten in France or the US.

In fact we brought home some tillamook and they did not charge us for that either.

How much cheese are you bringing back?

[mookiemcgee]

Imports from a 3rd country are not covered by NAFTA. Buying French cheese in the U.S. and moving it to Canada subjects it to the same tariff as if you brought it directly from France.

The government is stupid, but they're not total idiots...

I mean it applies to wholesale/commercial shipments, but I don't think the G8 is gonna shut down Beverly Hills Cheese shop if Doom orders a wheel for shipment to his home in Canada.

[betiko]

i remember how cheese miserable i felt during my 1 year university exchange program there. Luckily one day one of my french friends had some illegal contraband french cheese he kindly chared with his fellow citizens.
The other day a swiss friend of mine who lives in florida showed me a full cart of raclette cheese he bought from trader joe's, but the colour looked disgusting and it was pasteurised.

[DoomYoshi]

Imports from a 3rd country are not covered by NAFTA. Buying French cheese in the U.S. and moving it to Canada subjects it to the same tariff as if you brought it directly from France.

The government is stupid, but they're not total idiots...

I mean it applies to wholesale/commercial shipments, but I don't think the G8 is gonna shut down Beverly Hills Cheese shop if Doom orders a wheel for shipment to his home in Canada.

Obviously you have never ordered something over the border. The tariff will get applied at the border, even on small items. If I go over myself (which I can't do the border being closed right now), I can take a small amount, but it's asking for trouble. Here's what happened the last time I tried to cross the border:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.4209945


It's ok mook, you're new here so you don't understand how awful this is. Imagine a simple product that you use every day - like toilet paper. Now you have to go your entire life paying import fees, shipping + delivery and then a 300% tariff. So you can still wipe your bum, but every time you have to wonder "should I send my kids to college or wipe my bum?" Imported cheese may not be a big deal to you, but it's pretty much all I care about.

[mookiemcgee]

Imports from a 3rd country are not covered by NAFTA. Buying French cheese in the U.S. and moving it to Canada subjects it to the same tariff as if you brought it directly from France.

The government is stupid, but they're not total idiots...

I mean it applies to wholesale/commercial shipments, but I don't think the G8 is gonna shut down Beverly Hills Cheese shop if Doom orders a wheel for shipment to his home in Canada.

Obviously you have never ordered something over the border. The tariff will get applied at the border, even on small items. If I go over myself (which I can't do the border being closed right now), I can take a small amount, but it's asking for trouble. Here's what happened the last time I tried to cross the border:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton ... -1.4209945


It's ok mook, you're new here so you don't understand how awful this is. Imagine a simple product that you use every day - like toilet paper. Now you have to go your entire life paying import fees, shipping + delivery and then a 300% tariff. So you can still wipe your bum, but every time you have to wonder "should I send my kids to college or wipe my bum?" Imported cheese may not be a big deal to you, but it's pretty much all I care about.

Well Scott, if you really are an officer of the law then it shouldn't surprise anyone you are horribly unequipped to smuggle cheese. We send stuff across the border all the time, and there are a myriad of way to get you duty free cheese provided you don't label it 'TAX FREE ILLEGALLY SMUGGLED CHEESE FROM FRANCE' and send it via beaver courier.

Send me a PO box number via PM or something... I'll get you your damn cheese without a 300% penalty.

#FREETHECHEESE

Mooks fool proof plan of getting cheese into canada in three short steps:
1. Wrap the cheese up in something smelly so they don't know it's cheese,my personal fav is to wrap the cheese in Marijuana
2. Send multiple small packages, if the tax rate it 300% then we really only need 2 in 5 packages to make it across and we've won the game
3. Do not allow the locals to add it to their fries and gravy

[riskllama]

mook = helping

[DoomYoshi]

Excellent. I love it.

My address is:
24 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, ON
K1M 1M4

[mookiemcgee]

Excellent. I love it.

My address is:
24 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, ON
K1M 1M4

Nice try, but your PM is lactose intolerant and he wouldn't appreciate it.

[Keefie]

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[Keefie]

Excellent. I love it.

My address is:
24 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, ON
K1M 1M4

I'm so tempted to send you some Stinking Bishop By the time it gets there, Canada will need to be evacuated.

[Dukasaur]

I have never been charged a tariff on any cheese I have eaten in France or the US.

In fact we brought home some tillamook and they did not charge us for that either.

Yes, if you're out of the country for 24 hours or more, you can bring back a certain amount of most goods duty-free. So if you were down on vacation, you could have brought back a piece of cheese duty-free. Unless you can afford to go on vacation every week (and if you can you're probably not bothered by the price of cheese) that's not going to help you with your weekly shopping. So, most of the time, I settle for locally-produced garbage like cheddar, boring but cheap. A nice slice of Beaufort on the other hand, which can be had in Paris for the equivalent of $5, will cost you $30 in Toronto. Not too often will my conscience allow me to spend that much money on myself.

How much cheese are you bringing back?

Ok, I think I gotta tell you a story...

I'm so tempted to send you some Stinking Bishop By the time it gets there, Canada will need to be evacuated.

Yes, now I am SURE that I have to tell you a story....

I've told you this story before, but it's good enough to tell again. In fact, I have to keep telling it again and again. A part of my life was stolen and I want justice.

In 2009, when I married my second wife, I took her to France for the honeymoon. On the way back, I bought a big wheel of Camembert. And it wasn't the little 5-inch wheel they sell in Canada, it was a big-ass wheel about 18 inches across. Now, experts tell me it can't be real Camembert, that Camembert is only made in 5-inch wheels and never any larger. So I'm starting to second-guess myself. Maybe it was a Rechomblon. Or maybe it was a Brie. I doubt if I would come back from France with something as pedestrian as a Brie, but maybe I did. Or maybe it was a Brie fraudulently mislabeled as a Camembert. In any case, I bought it.

I put it beside my backpack in the overhead compartment on the plane. Haha! I had no idea how hot it gets in those overhead compartments. Like an oven! We land in Montreal, and I open the overhead compartment. A gasp breaks out among the passengers closest to me, and it radiates backwards through the line of disembarking passenges, like a wave. One woman retches, her eyes roll back, she grabs her seat back with both hands, manages not to vomit. Slowly baking in that overhead compartment for seven hours, the giant Camembert had slowly but surely released all of the aromatic compounds which give it its characteristic flavour. All the flavour that it would normally release over many good meals, all at once, flooding through the closed air of the plane.

Some of the faces on some of those passengers were truly worth the price of the plane ticket. They couldn't have looked sicker if I pulled a decomposed dead body out of my luggage. My wife still cracks up thinking about it! What a landing!

Fast forward three years. We're watching a sitcom called Mike and Molly, which is about a fat couple vaguely reminiscent of my wife and I. Mike and Molly go on their honeymoon. To France. This is feeling vaguely familiar. On the way back, Mike buys a giant Camembert. Ohmyfuckingod, please no! Yes! He opens the overhead luggage compartment at the end of the flight, the aroma wafts out, passengers faint!

It's too much for coincidence. Somebody stole that from my life. Some aspiring young screenwriter was on my flight, saw the episode of my life, wrote it into a script for a Mike and Molly episode. He probably got a six-digit paycheque, I got cock soup. I've been robbed, and I keep telling this story to every person on earth, one at a time, until somebody owns up.

[2dimes]

We rented a car at Heathrow. Drove through out France. 33 driving hours to Salon de Provence with some slight detours looking around. Then back to Calais via the beaches near Dieppe. Enroute I Consumed many small wheels of Brie along with baguette. Possibly some other fragrant delicacies.

We did not realise the scent we were imparting on the vehicle until we finally got to Britain for a few days and managed to sleep in some actual beds. Eating British "cuisine".

It's possible Budget had to retire that one from the fleet.

[jonesthecurl]

I used to live in Hampshire, and across the Solent on the Isle of White was a huge garlic festival every year - held on one of the biggest garlic farms in Europe. Garlic beer, garlic honey, garlic cheese, garlic garlic garlic. And of course they sold garlic too, huge strings of it with, I think, 20 per string. We visited with another couple, and we stayed overnight in a small hotel. The car was parked outside with a string of garlic for us, a string of smoked garlic for us, and one of each for the other couple. 80 . bulbs. We left all four strings in the boot (trunk) of the car overnight. When we got in the car the next day. the smell was overpowering. Remember, we'd all consumed a ton of garlic the day before and we probably stank pretty much ourselves. But what a smell! Glad it wasn't our car...

[riskllama]

try some casa marzu, DY - it sounds...interesting.

[mookiemcgee]

Excellent. I love it.

My address is:
24 Sussex Drive,
Ottawa, ON
K1M 1M4