Re: [Debconf-discuss] [Debconf-announce] Help make the 11th DebConf Cheese and Wine party a success!
Quoting Amey Abhyankar (sco1984@gmail.com):
> On 10 August 2015 at 20:58, Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd@debian.org> wrote:
> > I'd like
> > to ask you to make a short trip by a cheese shop, and bring us a sample
> of your
> > area's delicacies, in solid or liquid form.
>
> I want to bring cheese [Cow milk cheese/solid form] of famous Indian milk
> products manufacturer 'Amul'.
>
> Query:- The Amul cheese tin/package remains above 20 degree Celsius [not
> in cabin bag :-) ] during my journey from Mumbai to Heidelberg i.e. around
> 16~18 Hrs [ i.e. door to door transit time]
>
> Is it ok to bring cheese in this case?
> I am worried if the Cheese will remain in good form. [It'll be in company
> sealed package but still]
> Pls suggest/advice.
I brought several quite "advanced" (understand smelly and strongly
cured) french cheese to some quite remote DebConfs in the past :
Argentina, Mexico, USA. All went well.
The ideal solution is asking the cheese shop, or any other place, to
pack the cheese in a vacuum-sealed bag. Well, that's easy to get in
our French cheese shops, because they're used to us bringing cheese
all around the world as "La Bonne Parole Du Pays Du Fromage".
That won't prevent the cheese to suffer slightly during the trip, but
remember that it will travel mostly in a plane's cargo compartment, so
at quite low temperature (cargo compartments are pressurized and get
the air conditioning from the passenger"s cabin, but the air gets
cooler chen getting to the cargo compartment....so the temperature is
between 5 and 10 °C).
I stored the cheese in a dedicated box (Tupperware-like), which also
reduces the event of the smelling spreading out all around your
luggage...:-)
Finally, your concern may be with import regulations. Most countries
do have some and Europe isn't an exception. That's sometimes a bit
difficult with food material though customs are most often concerned
with meat and such stuff.
Still, I had no problem impoorting the cheese in the aforementioned
countries. Even for USA and even though I explicitly mentioned on the
import custom form that I had cheese in my luggage. They key was
mentioning this is *cured* hard cheese. What they absolutely don't
want is cottage-like cheese.
And this even though being French doesn't help because customs
officers are used to us bringing food in any place of the world where
we visit someone
Importing cheese to the C&W is always a bit adventurous....but that's
part of the game and this ia also what makes the C&W
unique....so....just try! I think we never had cheese from India in
any C&W so you might even set a precedent....
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