What started as an incredible stroke of luck quickly soured into a physical and sensory encumbrance
‘It was like the cheese was “it” – the horrific, tainted thing in children’s games of tag. No one wants to be‘It was like the cheese was “it” – the horrific, tainted thing in children’s games of tag. No one wants to beLast week on my neighbourhoodgroup someone was giving away 90 slices of cheese: “Would anyone like sliced cheese? Or know anyone I can donate it to? Leftover from a school function?”
That weekend I was hosting a party for around 50 people, and making a hundred sandwiches. I had ordered roast chicken, bread and avocados but not the cheese.Brigid Delaney and the WhatsApp cheese.manifestedThat afternoon I collected the cheese and heard its origin story. It was leftover cheese from a primary school camp, and due to some health and safety law, even though it was properly sealed, they could not reuse it at the school.
The assembly line was focused, they worked silently, sandwiches mounting up. My mother was in charge and spoke with authority. “Forget the cheese. We don’t have time to go back and get it.”That night, I returned home from the party and opened the fridge. There sat the enormous bar of cheese. It looked like a lightsaber made out of toilet roll. It was sort of long and heavy. I could use it to club a home invader over the head, I supposed.
It was like the cheese was “it” – the horrific, tainted thing in children’s games of tag. No one wants to beUnwanted cheese has dark overtones in the world of children.
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