Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-30 Thread Gregory Colpart
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 06:03:22PM +0200, Judit Foglszinger wrote: > > That was the only "frightening" moment. The person in charge at > > customs just asked us "so you declared you bring food"?. Answer: "yes, > > we're bringing some French hard cured cheese". Answer from the customs > > guy: "OK,

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread John Goerzen
Thanks Christian. Bringing cheese was logistically difficult for me, as I'm going halfway across a continent by train, which is a 40-hour trip. Plus Kansas isn't known for cheese. Almost brought a cylinder of funeral cheese, which has a distinctive name and history, though not much of a disti

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting David Moreno (da...@axiombox.com): > There's no formal guidelines on how to approach the cheese and wine party. > It's recommended that you bring a nice cheese of your choice from the region > you live in. If you think a ball of Wal-Mart's mozzarella is representative > of your region, tha

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread David Moreno
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:44 PM, David Smith wrote: > I've never been to a wine & cheese party before.. > Was thinking about going.. > > So I just pick up a block of mozzarella from Wal-mart or something, or does > it have to be extra fancy cheese? I think the only cheese I don't like is > Swiss

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread David Smith
I've never been to a wine & cheese party before.. Was thinking about going.. So I just pick up a block of mozzarella from Wal-mart or something, or does it have to be extra fancy cheese? I think the only cheese I don't like is Swiss.. Though I can count the number of different cheese I've had on

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> That was the only "frightening" moment. The person in charge at > customs just asked us "so you declared you bring food"?. Answer: "yes, > we're bringing some French hard cured cheese". Answer from the customs > guy: "OK, you can go, guys". Same here, just wrote down "cheese" on that paper, was

[Debconf-discuss] Bringing cheese (and wine and.....stuff) for the Cheese and Wine party is very easy

2010-07-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
I (along with my son) landed yesterday in NYC. We had about 2.5 kilograms of cheese in our bags. On the US customs form, we did check the "I bring food" box. So, at immigration, the guy checking our passports marked the form so that customs can pay attention That was the only "frightening" mo