Will France stomach a non-cheese-eating Nicolas Sarkozy as president?

"It’s a matter of (spurious) debate if France’s president is a “surrender monkey,” but one thing seems clear: He is no longer cheese-eating.

Nicolas Sarkozy decided to stop savoring "le fromage" after meals, the AFP reported in an article on the kitchens at the presidential Elysee Palace. His chef said Sarkozy was trying to eat healthily, preferring "light, balanced meals and poultry to red meat," AFP added............

As the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper noted, Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces during the Second World War and later president, once declared, “How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?”..........

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Sarkozy has an infamous history of "foot-in-mouth disease" but it´s hard to believe that even a dolt like Sarkozy could be so stupid as to harp on the healthfulness of a product so clearly identified with fine French dining and just before an election when he´s already quite unpopular.

If there is one thing that this South Alabama boy noted when I married into a French familiy exactly 41 years ago, it was that the French traditionally eat "light, balanced meals" - far more light and balanced than is typical of family meals in the U.S. - especially in Dawg´s native deep south where church pews have to be reinforced to accomodate parishioners.

I am pleased to say that we will soon be off to France where we will be dining on a variety of splendid cheeses as acompaniments to fabulous, well-balanced meals served from the Atlantic Coast to the Loire Valley to Paris to Alsace and we are on a diet just so we can eat all the cheese and outstanding, fresh seafood we can get our hands on over there. Sarkozy´s diet just leaves more for Dawg. Those succulent, fresh oysters and other shellfish from icy cold Atlantic waters don´t stand a chance at surviving when Dawg arrives.