COWS and DRAMA: Time For Cows
The Simmental
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Cast In Order Of Appearance:
Announcer
Reporter
Simmental
SFX: opening Time For Cows theme music
ANNOUNCER
A cow that is everywhere but Antarctica? Today we are talking to the Simmental.
SFX: moo
REPORTER
You seem to be everywhere.
SIMMENTAL
Why yes, I am a very widely distributed cow.
REPORTER
You don't look fat.
SIMMENTAL
I said I was widely distributed, not obese.
REPORTER
But you do have an imposing stature.
SIMMENTAL
I beg your pardon!
REPORTER
Uhm, well, you're big, as in large framed.
SIMMENTAL
I am very cosmopolitan. I am Swiss.
REPORTER
Yes, well, uhm, let me check my notes here. Ah yes, it says here that the first herd book which established your breed placed you in the Swiss Canton of Berne in 1806.
SIMMENTAL
That may well be, but there is prior evidence for my type in many earlier secular and ecclesiastical records. Let us be precise. After all, I am Swiss.
REPORTER
Okay, let's be that way. The first Red and White Spotted Simmental Cattle Association was formed in –
SIMMENTAL
1890.
REPORTER
The total numbers of Simmental worldwide are estimated to be between –
SIMMENTAL
40 and 60 million. More than half of us are in Europe, of course.
REPORTER
Of course.
SIMMENTAL
We have been highly sought because of our rapid growth development –
REPORTER
– and outstanding production of milk, butter and cheese –
SIMMENTAL
Emmenthal.
REPORTER
Gesundheit!
SIMMENTAL
It's a cheese!
REPORTER
What is?
SIMMENTAL
Emmenthal.
REPORTER
Gesundheit!
SIMMENTAL
Stop that!
REPORTER
I was just trying to be polite. If you were Italian I'd say Saluti instead.
SIMMENTAL
If I were Italian I would be called Pezzata rossa.
REPORTER
Sounds like a pizza.
SIMMENTAL
Well, it is not a pizza. It is a cow. Let us be precise.
REPORTER
Yes, let's.
SIMMENTAL
In France I am called Pie Rouge, Montbeliard, and Abondance. And in Germany, I am called Fleckvieh.
REPORTER
Gesundheit!
SIMMENTAL
Stop that!
REPORTER
Okay.
SFX: moo
SFX: closing Time For Cows theme music
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