This is my last week at the cheesemongers I've been at for the last year. This is also the week of the International Dairy Expo here in Madison. Needless to say, we've had a lot of dairy industry people from all over the world come visit the shop to try to artisan Wisconsin cheese. Funny story:

Yesterday, I was working with the new guy, Nick, who will be replacing me as the cheesebuyer for the store. A man, wearing a Dairy Expo baseball hat, walks in and starts perusing our selection. Nick greets him and asks the man if there's anything he'd like a sample of. The man starts asking questions but poor Nick can't understand him and asks him to repeat himself. The man asks again, but Nick can't make out what the guy was saying. I come over and ask if they need any help and the man asks "Do you have any British cheese?" I start laughing--the man was Welsh! And not just kinda Welsh. Really Welsh. Welsh, as in, his first language was Welsh. Welsh to the point that Nick could not understand a word the guy was saying, but I really didn't have any difficultly. I guess spending all that time with the accents in western Ireland has really paid off!