Greece Declares War on Bad Cheese
Now if they could just do something about the traffic in downtown Athens....
ATHENS, Greece - Greece has declared war on bad cheese and vowed to form a special "feta police" after more than two tons of the famous Greek product arrived in Norway tainted with listeria.
Agriculture Minister Giorgios Dris said in comments published Friday that setting up a cheese-control squad was needed to avoid further blows to the reputation of one of Greece's main exports."We will be merciless," Dris said, who dubbed the new unit the "feta police."
After years of debate, the EU late last year gave Greece the sole right to use the name feta. Denmark, a major feta producer, is fighting the decision.
Greece won its battle by claiming that feta should be made only from sheep's milk, or a mixture of goat and sheep's milk, from livestock that eat grass and flowers in the rugged Greek countryside.
Ah, yes, an inefficient Socialist economy is it's own reward. What can you expect from a country whose national airline, Olympic Airways, once served me a meal that still had frost on the shrink wrap? One would be best advised to keep one's expectations to a minimum.
