Thursday, April 29, 2010

Made it.

So did the cheese.**

More in a couple of days when I'm over my jetlag.


**Totally above-board and legal, people. In the end, I declared it on the customs form, they asked what it was, I told them, "a cheese..." and before I could even get to the bit about "vacuum-sealed, cured/hard, for personal consumption..." they waved me through.

11 comments:

clio's disciple said...

Welcome back! See you in a (eek!) couple weeks!

Historiann said...

Congrats on smuggling the cheese. I'm still pissed off about the proscuitto that I was foolishly honest about upon a return from Italy 3 years ago. It took all of my willpower not to scream at the customs agents, "there's no such thing as MAD PIG DISEASE, dumba$$es!"

squadratomagico said...

Mmmmmm.... illegal cheese. Welcome back with your booty!

Notorious Ph.D. said...

No, no people! The cheese was brought in legal, fully declared on the customs form. They asked me what the food was, i told them (okay, so I omitted the part about it being unpasteurized), and they waved me through. Whole thing took about 20 seconds.

Meat, however, will never get through. Doesn't concern me, as a vegetarian, but you *can* bring in cheese for personal consumption, so long as it's sealed and cured (so no brie, sorry).

Comrade PhysioProf said...

If you do not post a picture of the cheese--including a freshly cut section view--then your blog totally sucks. This is not a joke.

Notorious Ph.D. said...

CPP, I never claimed my blog didn't suck. So you can't hurt me.

(And the cheese is a gift, so I won't be cutting it open. And the language on the label would give a clue as to my undisclosed location, so no photo -- for security reasons, you understand.)

Susan said...

Welcome back! And I'm glad the cheese got through...

medieval woman said...

Welcome back! Indeed, they have bigger fish to fry than cheese - next time we're in Holland, I'll go ahead and declare the mounds of aged gouda we bring back.

squadratomagico said...

Don't even think of bringing that cheese into Arizona.

Alan said...

Welcome home!

Notorious Ph.D. said...

@Squadro: Ha!