ANOTHER FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT DOWN THE DRAIN

City Greenmarket vendors banned from cutting the cheese outside

(Thanks to Chuck Cody)

Comments

[Jeff Meyerson]

I'm with the 72% of Daily News readers who thinks this is idiotic. Mayor Nanny Bloomberg goes too far sometimes.

[funny man]

Agreed. Idiotic. Un-American. And so not-Gouda.

But when I read the headline, I thought it was about flatulence, also very hard to enforce a ban on, and
contrary to good sense. Outdoors the wind or air can
blow away the odors, but indoor they stay and betray.

[LeDud]

What if its like the cheese shop in the Monty Python skit of known repute ? (I just read the Shakespear doobie article) Lets see em close that !

[Steve]

In my early days as a health inspector, I'd have agreed with this. The simple reason was that it's difficult to explain to the average person-on-the-street that what is unlikely to cause harm with cheese will probably do harm if you cut meat.
From a food-safety standpoint, cheese was developed as a way of preserving dairy for consumption over time. That means that finished cheese that is suitable for cutting is probably resistant to bacterial growth for a significant time.
And some, like limburger, smell like your feet if you walked naked through the cow pasture, anyway.