But "Gargantua" looks penny-pinching right down to its unconvincing, generic box of cheese puffs.
Desperate for tea, I answer the door and the delivery guy hands me a box of cheese.
When picking up a box of cheese rolls, potato balls or a cake at Porto's Bakery & Cafe, two things are always guaranteed: The lines will be long and the food affordable.
"I do not know if these products will remain here or will disappear," said Saied Ajour, 56, pointing at boxes of Egyptian cheese on the shelves of the Zawya market in Gaza City.
He dropped in two boxes of plump cheese ravioli, stirred gently with a long wooden spoon, and covered the pot so the water would return quickly to a boil.
He immediately took the cash register and tossed it to the ground, and when it didn't open, he went to the back, grabbed two boxes of mozzarella cheese and left," Altamonte Springs Police officer Robert Pelton told WESH-TV.
He explains: "My customers have been known to reward me, especially at Christmas time, with bottles of wine, boxes of chocolate, cheeses, Christmas cards and invitations to drinks parties.
The Italian painter Alberto Magnelli had been in and around Paris since 1914, most often as a pioneer abstractionist, but in 1936 he too exhibited a recent Surrealist object - an empty box of Camembert cheese with a painted image in the bottom of it.
I could help myself to as many boxes of macaroni and cheese, bowls of ramen noodles or grilled-cheese sandwiches as I wanted.
"Then I would make them out of cheese boxes or cigar boxes they saved for me at the corner store".
