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04/13/2009, 03:28 am
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Wallace saves Wensleydale
I found the following snippet on Wikipedia, in the article about the Wensleydale cheese:
Wallace and Gromit In the 1990s, sales had fallen so low that production was at risk of being suspended. However, the popular Wallace and Gromit animated shorts A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave had the main character Wallace mention Wensleydale as a particularly favourite cheese. Animator Nick Park chose it solely because it had a good name that would be interesting to animate, unaware of the company's financial difficulties. The company contacted Aardman Animations about a licence for a special brand of "Wallace and Gromit Wensleydale", which proved to be an enormous success. When the 2005 full-length Wallace and Gromit film, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released, sales of Wensleydale cheeses jumped by 23%. It's a funny world really  here's the full article. |
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04/16/2009, 12:26 pm
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Cranky Game Designer
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Naturally, we had to get some while we were working on this game. It's good cheese, I'm glad Wallace & Gromit saved it!
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04/17/2009, 12:21 pm
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Charming. Suave. Muscular
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lol, thats hilarious. Got to buy me some of that W&G cheese...
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04/17/2009, 01:33 pm
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it's some intense stuff
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04/18/2009, 03:54 am
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I saw that on a featurette of the Curse of the Were-Rabbit DVD I rented just for this occasion
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04/18/2009, 09:55 am
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based on the looks of the cheese, it's easy to believe it's got some decent character
 next time I'm in the UK, I'll definitely try it! |
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04/25/2009, 06:34 pm
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I'm not a cheese man, but I'd love to try wensleydale.
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04/26/2009, 02:05 am
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Blorp blorp blorp...
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04/26/2009, 11:39 am
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The Batman
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Heh, that is pretty funny. XD
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