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Friday, February 18, 2011

Cheese on Toast and Modern History

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You may very well have some considerable expertise in recognising the various forms of cheese on toast, up to and including the rather tricky Double Gloucester on wholegrain, but there is no need for you to disparage those who have not achieved similar equitable academic attainment. After all, this was a country that won the war against Nazi Germany mainly through its ability to distinguish the various cheeses and the uses they could be put to in conjunction with toasted breadstuffs, especially in the crucial battlefield environment.

Scholars, for example, now recognise it was the 8th Army’s cunning use of Sage Derby on toasted sliced white that was the critical factor in Montgomery’s victory at El Alamein. Furthermore, the liberation of Italy would have not been such a victory for the Allies, if the use of Lancashire cheese on toasted battlefield-ready baps at Monte Cassino had not been authorised by the British war cabinet in time.

As for the use of cheese on toast in general throughout the cold war, it is now apparent that with out the daring use of cheese on toast by the western powers then there would have been no ultimate fall of the Berlin wall.

Furthermore, it is only the use of Chinese-backed anti-cheese-on-toast political edicts by the rulers of North Korea that has kept the communist party in power there up to the present day. This has been deliberately engineered by the ruling party by denying the majority of the population the freedom to access cheese on toast in the way that is regarded as fundamental to the political process in the democratic West,

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