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It’s about Tomme

My wife was watching the news last night on Cable TV and exclaimed that some people had died in Switzerland from eating some cheese called T-O-M-M-E.

Indeed they have, though I am not sure how this really rather obscure story made it on to the news in Hong Kong.  I can’t find any mention of the story on the BBC News website, and Google News only throws up one reference. 

Regular readers will now that I do like a bit of cheese from time to time, and I think I have purchased some Tomme from the mini-Great in Kowloon Tong in the past.  However, I’ve eaten up my stocks, and the shop has now closed down.

So that’s another narrow escape, then.

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    fumier

    I checked my 34lb stock of cheese (reported earlier) and was pleased to see that none of it was Tomme. That must be why I didn’t have a tomme-ache.
    My cheese stock came from Australia and I expect you are wondering how my friend got it into Hong Kong. Well, he had it in his boogie board case, and the story he was going to give if he had been caught was that it had been put there when it went through Australian Customs.

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