24 Hour Cheese Dispensers Launched in France: Camembert Around the Clock

24-hour CHEESE dispensers are launched in France for food lovers who crave a slice of camembert around the clock

• Cheese vending machines are popping up in train stations and motorway stops

Food lovers in France are having their prayers answered with the launch of 24-hour cheese dispensers.

Vending machines stocking 'artisanal fromage' are now dotted around France, appearing in rail stations, village squares and motorway service stops.

These machines are open day and night to satisfy cravings around the clock.

Refrigeration inside prevents the pungent smell of many cheeses from wafting into the surrounding area.

It comes as the makers of hundreds of appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC), the protected regional cheese types, seek new ways to bring their produce to consumers.

Food lovers rejoice as 24-hour cheese dispensers open up around France  (Pictured: French cheese maker Fabien Picard carries a pallet with cheese to fill his vending machine at the train station in Bourg en Bresse, eastern France)

Vending machines are popping up in railway stations, village squares and motorway services (Pictured: Fabian Picard, head of La fromager dairy, fills his cheese vending machine in Bourg en Bresse, eastern France)

The automatic dispensers are refrigerated, protecting the surrounding area from wafting smells (Pictured: Cheesemaker Fabien Picard fills his cheese vending machine in Bourg en Bresse, eastern France)

Farm cooperatives and small producers are banding together to finance the often-costly machines.

The number of fresh bread dispensers, usually featuring baguettes, is also growing.

With France being the home of so many popular cheeses, including camembert, roquefort and reblochon, this was the logical next step.

These vending machines initially took off during the pandemic, because customers could serve themselves without putting on masks and entering shops.

Regional officials are now encouraging the dispensers to promote local quality produce.

They are especially apprecaited in rural areas, where the closure of local outlets is forcing people to drive further for their shopping.

The Coopérative de Doubs was one of the first shops to have one outside, and on offer is everything from comté to morbier for the perfect last-minute cheeseboard. 

Cheese dispensers are the latest in a trend of machines selling pizzas and fresh bread (Pictured: Cheesemaker Fabien Picard fills his cheese vending machine in a railway station in France)

These vending machines initially took off during the pandemic, because customers could serve themselves without putting on masks and entering shops

Famous Cheeses local to certain regions of France include camembert, roquefort and reblochon (Pictured: Fabien Picard prepares his delivery to fill his cheese vending machine)

Fabien Picard (pictured) said: 'You can just turn the carousel, choose your cheese and pay with a bank card, before picking up your purchase.'

In the eastern Ain departement, Fabian Picard, head of La fromager dairy, said people had been surprised to discover his automated supply of tomme du Jura, comté, and other types from his dispensers on the motorway and in the bust Bourg-en-Bresse station.

He told Agence France-Presse: 'You can just turn the carousel, choose your cheese and pay with a bank card, before picking up your purchase.'

The cheese, which costs a little more than in the shops, is stocked up once a day.

In Varaville, in the coastal Calvados departmente of Normandy, a fromagerie is stocking a machine with camembert and liverot.

In the high Alps of Haute-Savoie, a cheesemaker is stocking his 24-hour distributor with reblochon, tomme and raclette, the local specialties.

Mathieu Goguet, joint manager of La Boîte ô Fromages in the Calvados region, said his firm had been making home deliveries during the pandemic.

He told Radio France: 'We realised the people we were delivering to would not go 15 km to come and buy at the shop. But they could stop by a dispenser.' 

Camembert in its traditional round wood box. 

Camembert

Camembert 

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Camembert

Triple Crème Brie 

Brie

Brie

Brie and Camembert take roughly a month to ripen and reach the required texture and smelliness

Ossau-Iraty

Vintage Gouda

Roquefort

Roquefort cheeses as they mature in a cellar in Roquefort, southwestern France 

Israel News: Behind closed doors: How a prominent Gazan family secretly kept three hostages - WSJ

 

Behind closed doors: How a prominent Gazan family secretly kept three hostages - WSJ

The house of a prominent Gazan family - a doctor, a journalist, a phlebotomist and their children - secretly harbored three hostages. How was this possible?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, JUNE 17, 2024 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-806544

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024 (photo credit: REUTERS/EMAD ABU SHAWIESH)

Dr. Ahmad – a general practitioner, imam, and member of a prominent family in Gaza – secretly held three Israeli hostages captive in his home for six months, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Every day, Aljamal returned home from work to his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, and captives Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv.

The secret captivity

According to the report, citing residents, it was an open secret within the Nuseirat camp that Aljamal’s family was associated with Hamas. Aljamal’s brother, Abdelrahman Aljamal, is a Hamas lawyer in Gaza. Nevertheless, the report stated that most did not know of the three hostages being held in a dark room in the family’s house.

The IDF reported that the son, Abdullah Aljamal, 37, was a journalist for the Palestinian news site The Palestine Chronicle. Fatma, his wife, was a phlebotomist at a local clinic.

People walk among debris at the area where Israeli hostages were rescued on Saturday in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 9, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/Abed Khaled)

The hostages later said they could hear conversations between the two and the rest of the family as they carried on their normal lives. An earlier WSJ report stated that the three hostages lived in a dark room upstairs in the apartment for six months while the family lived downstairs.

Abdullah had previously served as a spokesperson for the Hamas government and, according to the Journal, was vocally supportive of the October 7 attack.

The building in which the Aljamal family lived was destroyed by an IAF-targeted strike after the rescue of the hostages earlier this month.

The rescue operation, which received significant coverage due to its complex and intricate planning and execution, resulted in the return of the three men as well as Noa Argamani, who was kept separately nearby by another family with Hamas ties, the Abu Nars.

Aljamal, his son, and his daughter-in-law were killed in the operation, according to local reports cited by the WSJ, however, the children survived.

The Abu Nar family was also reportedly killed, and their building was destroyed.

The IDF did not directly comment on the killing of family members or destruction of buildings, but in a statement, they said they acted to “eliminate terrorists” and “destroy terrorist infrastructure.”

According to the report, many locals have paid a visit to the house, surprised by the discovery of the captive Israelis right underneath their noses. The paper said secrets such as this are hard to keep within such a close-knit community and in a tightly packed area.

The report also said that residents were unhappy that Hamas put civilians in danger by housing the hostages in a densely populated area next to a market.

The Journal reported that locals wished Hamas kept the hostages in tunnels, away from civilians.

“Hamas should give us a map of the safe zones we can stay in because if we knew there were hostages in the neighborhood, we would have looked for another place,” Mustafa Muhammad, 36, told the paper. Muhammad fled Gaza City to Nuseirat early in the war.

These fears were not without basis. Israel’s rescue operation resulted in Gazan civilian casualties. The IDF said it was less than a hundred, but Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry placed estimates in the 200s.

Nevertheless, residents spoke fondly of the Aljamals.

“Dr. Ahmad was the one who circumcised my three boys,” resident Ali Bkhit told the WSJ. “When I dealt with him, he was a nice character; his smile never left his face.”      

Watch: Israel Releases Body Camera Footage Showing Hostage Rescue in Gaza | WSJ News

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Muslim Superiority Complex

‘How Dare You?!’ The True Source of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Is a Muslim Superiority Complex

The Stream

The Arab-Israeli conflict will never be fully understood — an essential criterion to solving it — until its ultimate source is recognized: Islamic supremacism.

Islamic doctrine, which teaches that Muslim blood is superior to and far more precious than non-Muslim blood (non-Muslims essentially being on a level with dogs and cattle) imbues Muslims with a sense of supremacism over the rest of mankind. And a good portion of Islamic history further enforces it.

This sense of Islamic supremacism was dramatically humbled after European powers defeated and colonized much of the Muslim world. Bred on the notion that “might makes right,” Muslims, for a time, even began emulating the then-unapologetic and triumphant West. Turkey, for example, went from being the epitome of Islamic supremacy and jihad — the Ottoman scourge of Christian Europe for five centuries — to patterning itself after Europe in all ways, including by forfeiting the Arabic script and adopting the Roman alphabet, thereby becoming perhaps the most Westernized/secularized “Muslim” nation by the mid-1900s.

Today, however, as Western peoples willingly capitulate to Islamic mores in the name of tolerance, multiculturalism, political correctness, or just plain cowardice, Muslims are becoming more emboldened, making more demands and threats, as they realize they need not militarily defeat the West in order to resuscitate their supremacist birthright. (More appeasement from the bullied always brings about more demands from the bully.)

Two Tiers of Justice

Consider Muslim behavior where it is dominant and needs no pretense. There, non-Muslim minorities are habitually treated as inferiors. Earlier this year, for instance, Muslim murderers of a Coptic Christian were spared the death penalty, though that certainly would not have been the case had they been Christian and their victim Muslim. But unlike the many Western appeasers who willingly accept a subservient role to Islam, these religious minorities have no choice in the matter.

Enter the “How Dare You?” reaction, which I first described in a 2013 article.

During one Christmas season in Pakistan, as Christian children were singing carols inside their church, Muslim men from a nearby mosque barged in with an ax, beat the children, and destroyed the altar and furniture. Their justification for such violence? “You are disturbing our prayers. How dare you use the mike and speakers?”

Similarly, when a Muslim slapped a Christian and the latter reciprocated, the Muslim exclaimed “How dare a Christian slap me?!” Mass anti-Christian violence immediately ensued.

Remember the “How Dare You?” phenomenon next time you hear that Muslim madness and mayhem are the byproducts of grievance. Missing from this rationale is the supremacist nature of these grievances.

Airing the Conditions

The Conditions of Omar, a foundational Muslim text dealing with how subjugated “infidels” must behave, spells out their inferiority to Muslims. Among other stipulations, it commands conquered Christians not to raise their “voices during prayer or readings in churches anywhere near Muslims” (hence the ax attack in Pakistan). It also commands them not to display any signs of Christianity — specifically Bibles and crosses— and not to build churches or criticize the prophet.

If the supremacist nature of Islamic law is still not clear enough, the Conditions literally command Christians to give up their seats to Muslims as a show of respect.

The Conditions are essentially Jim Crow laws on steroids. Remember when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her bus seat to a white man? Any white supremacist at the time had sincere grievances: How dare she think herself equal?

But were such grievances legitimate? Should they have been accommodated?

Likewise, are the endless “grievances” of Muslims legitimate and should they be accommodated? These are the questions missing from the debate about easily bruised Muslim sensitivities.

One can go on and on with examples from all around the Islamic world. In my monthly “Muslim Persecution of Christians” series, which dates back to July 2011, every month features a dozen or so stories of Muslims persecuting and terrorizing Christians because the latter somehow offended Muslim sensibilities by overstepping their sharia-designated “inferior” status and daring to be on a par with Muslims.

And it is from here that one can at last begin to understand the ultimate Muslim grievance: Israel.

Israel Is the Worst

For if “infidel” Christian minorities are deemed inferior and attacked by aggrieved Muslims for exercising their basic human rights, such as freedom of worship, how must Muslims feel about Jews — who are the descendants of pigs and apes, according to the Koran — exercising power and authority over, and even killing, Muslims in what is perceived to be Muslim land?

How dare they?!

This is why few Muslims seemed to lament the half million Muslim lives lost during the Iran-Iraq war. When fellow (if nominal) Muslims are killing Muslims, that is unfortunate, yes, but not enough to deeply aggrieve Muslim sensibilities. But when it is the filthy infidel — the sons of apes and swine whose proper place is beneath the Muslim foot — wild paroxysms must by necessity ensue.

Put differently, if grievances against Israel were really about justice and displaced Palestinians, both Muslims and their Western enablers would be aggrieved by and regularly denouncing the fact that millions of Christians have been and continue to be displaced by Muslim invaders, who in 2023 alone butchered nearly 5,000 Christians for “faith-related reasons.”

Needless to say, they are not.

So the next time you hear that Muslim rage and terrorism are products of grievances, remember that this is absolutely true. However, these “grievances” are not predicated on any universal human standards of equality or justice, but rather a supremacist worldview.