Camembert cheeses in their box are on sale in a Ville d'Avray cheese shop, outside Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023. In one of the many legal proposals on streamlining and optimizing waste management throughout the 27-nation bloc, some French cheese producers sniffed out something and turned it into a culinary stink. They claimed that the proposal would make it illegal for Camembert to be cradled into the wooden packaging for its final weeks of ripening and, eventually, sale. The round box is as essentially Camembert as its unctuous texture and pungent smell(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
