The cow which laughs

the cow which laughs is a French cheese melted of manufacture Industrie lle of the cheese dairies Bel.

Created in 1921, the cow which laughs is famous for its illustrated round box which represents a hilarious cow carrying of the earrings made up… of boxes of cow which laughs.

The cheese

The cow which laughs is a derivative of the county. This last is classified according to a scale of 20 points. Those not reaching the note of 12 are used amongst other things for the manufacture of the cow which laughs. One dissolves cheese in mixers heating and one mixes the paste with salts of cast iron.

The cow which laughs is a cheese with little savor and without odor which is mainly given to the children.

The mark

The drawing

The drawing is inspired by a creation of the illustrator Benjamin Rabier, who decorated the military trucks during the war with 1914-18 by the drawing of a laughing cow. The drawing was called the “Wachkyrie”, allusion to the Valkyrie S of the Scandinavian Mythologie.

The drawing of the cow which laughs has the characteristic to be the illustration of a Mise in abyme, proceeded pictorial consisting in finding in a drawing or a table a reduced reproduction of the complete table. Indeed, the cow which laughs door of the earrings made up of boxes of cow which laughs, themselves illustrated of a cow which laughs which carries earrings made up of boxes of cow which laughs,… and thus of following the Infini.

Notoriety

The cow which laughs is today one of the most known marks of France: nearly 95% of the French know it. But she moreover is largely recognized in the whole world where she generally bears a local name but with the same significance:

The laughing cow in the anglophone countries
Al-Baqara AD-Dahika in the Arab countries
Vesela Krava in Czech Republic
Krowka Smieszka in Poland
the vaca that ríe in Spain
has vaca that laughed with the Portugal
Con bò cười with the Vietnam
Vessiolaia Bourionka in Russia
Den Skrattande Kon in Sweden
Die lachende Kuh in Germany
Of koe die lacht in Dutch

According to its manufacturer the Beautiful Group, 125 portions of cow which laughs is each second consumed in the world.

External bonds

Bel-group.com Official site
Official site of the cow which laughs

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