The fun part of it is saying it in context and deadpan sincerity. You say it in mixed company that includes at least one person who knows some french.
When they hear you say, “Oh well, c’est fromage” they instantly notice that your attempt to throw in a little french for conversation colour... failed in a way that is funny to hear, but could prove to be embarrassing if they point it out to you.
However, people don’t want to embarrass other people. But because “c’est fromage” enters the brain so quickly as a funny error, most people don’t have time to stop their little chuckle at your expense. Then they are kind of forced to explain why they are laughing at you.
So it’s an impishly fun way to watch people squirm a little with how to react to you as they try to figure out whether or not your mistake was intentional. It usually shows you how natural and honest someone feels while they are with you.
“Oh well. C'est fromage.”
“C’est fromage? That’s cheese?”
“What did I say? Fromage? Oh jeez, I meant domage.”
“No you didn’t.”
“No, I didn’t.”
the cheesy sebaceous matter that collects between the glans penis and the foreskin due to a lack of personal hygiene, also known as dick cheese or smegma
Where it comes from: Fromaged is a English word that comes from the French word “fromage” which means cheese. The verb fromaged comes from the movie “The Fromage” with the movie staring eddy urjsk as the character fromage.
History of word: The term “fromage” was first commonly used during the Roman Empire especially with Julia Fessar. During lot's of interviews you can hear Julia Fessar saying the term fromage ex: “yeah, I just fromage that one dude into his locker” and there are several more examples of this. But the word is speculated to first started to be said by the cavemen which they called it “fromage”.
What does it mean? Fromage means to put someone into a small room like a locker, under a bench...
I’M SO GOING TO FROMAGE YOU TODAY!
Sorry for fromaging you. Can Ifromage you?
An expression to say when you clink your glasses together before you drink (instead of Cheers). It started as a mistake in a restaurant in Paris, where the waiter mistook "Cheers" for "Cheese" - so when he translated Cheers as "Fromage" that's exactly what we used. Since then, this new drinking term has been embraced by hundreds of people across the U.S. and Europe.
Say "Fromage" instead of Cheers whenever you clink your glasses together before drinking.
A cheesy homage, as when a film-maker, writer, or artist is honoring with good humor or charm a previous artform, work, or artist that is normally considered inferior or "cheesy." A "fromage" is half mocking the original but half recreatingthe original's unique charm.
Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2, are Tarantino's fromage to the kung fu classics he grew up with.
Iron Chef America mirrors the Japanese original, but because it can't recreate the silly translations and voice-over work, it's more a serious remake than a fromage.
Alex Ross's comic book art seems to be a fromage to Norman Rockwell paintings.