An elderly woman in a bandanna wielded a cheese cutter, slicing through fat bricks of cream cheese.
Mr. Pappas coddles and cajoles, leading an elderly customer through tastes of successively stronger, gooey cheeses until he says: "Will you trust me?
She was by turns baby, cheese grater, dumpling, robot, monster, lemon and elderly naked gunslinger.
One area that necessitated apprenticeship was the meat-slicing machine, on which rounds of pressed ham, tongue, beef and brawn – the elderly betting man's favourite, otherwise known as head-cheese – were slapped for shaving off by the quarter.
On a recent Friday, just past 7 A.M., while Kovalenko was making beef stock for borscht, three elderly women sat at a table, folding mashed potatoes and cheddar cheese into rolled-out circles of dough for Ukrainian dumplings called vareniki.
Mr. Darby said yellow-eyed penguins had been adopted as mascots of a New Zealand cheese made by Mainland Products Ltd., whose commercials had long featured an elderly fellow who walked with a bit of a waddle.
Peelable packaging, as used for cheese or meat, causes real problems for many consumers, especially elderly people and those with hand disorders.
It's cheese, but gift-wrapped cheese, the sort you'd give to an elderly relative in a box with a miniature bottle of port.
Mr. Gore today heard stories from hard-pressed elderly people, including a woman who told of buying 16 boxes of macaroni and cheese dinners because they cost only $4, saving her money for medicine.
Young men, women, children, the elderly and disabled stand in a queue in the hopes of receiving a package of free government cheese.
