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By Margot Ratchman, Staff Reporter, Humor
With Spring in the air, Ramadan occurring, and Easter and Passover right around the corner, many are intensely focused on carrying out their lively and important religious traditions. While these holidays are cherished across the nation, there is a much lesser known and celebrated day fast approaching: National Cheese Fondue Day.
On April 11th, fondue connoisseurs will pull out their cherished pots and melt their favorite cheese. Despite its widespread admiration in many corners of the world, Hand students seem to have been sheltered from such a magnificent thing.
“I’ve never had it, but it sounds good,” Mary Baker, junior, said enthusiastically.
The attitude carried by Baker is the epitome of the entire day. Cheese fondue lovers do not discriminate based on numbers of pots consumed; the mighty, albeit petite, group behind the day simply want to spread their passion.
“I don’t really like cheese fondue," Teagan Ariyan, junior, said. "Chocolate fondue is better.”
Of course, chocolate fondue has its own day —February 5th. For a reason unbeknownst to most, chocolate fondue seemed to be favored over its cheese counterpart.
It was only when Molly Hoban, fellow French student with Ariyan — and thus, a qualified person to speak on the matter — bravely exclaimed, “I like chocolate fondue better” that the truth behind this grave debate began to emerge: nobody in Madison has consumed adequate cheese fondue. While a shock, this conclusion is not unexpected. With dairy prices always on the rise, the only possible solution to this matter quickly became clear.
Purchasing a cow for each Daniel Hand student may be costly, but it would certainly solve such an affair.
