Since that little blue line appeared on the pregnancy test, blue cheese, soft cheese (some say all cheese) has been banned.

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Others say it is the cheese.

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Hard cheese, you might say.

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One early years teacher in England said: "I work with four to five-year-olds and some say things like, 'I can't eat cheese, it will make me fat!'"

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Is it - you're just a big cheese Oscar nominee, and call up Stevie Wonder and say, hey, can you bring your harmonica?

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The public will have its say on the Cambridgeshire village's claim to the name for its cheese from May.

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Let's say I go into a fast food restaurant and I ask for a cheese burger and the server smiles at me and says - You know, just for 40 American cents more you can get a larger size.

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But he finds equally good things to say about most of the businesses, remarking for instance that profit margins on branded cheese turn out to be very close to those on private-label cereals.

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Foods such as hummus originated in Lebanon, they say, and this should be recognised, as much as Greece's exclusive claim to feta cheese or Parma's to parmesan.

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Others say peasants in the Swiss mountains created the dish as a way to make use of leftover bread and cheese during colder months when fresh produce was scarce.

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