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=== Other uses === [[Anthony Bourdain]] described fellow chef [[Patrick Clark (chef)|Patrick Clark]] in his book ''[[Kitchen Confidential (book)|Kitchen Confidential]]'' (2000) as follows: "He was kind of famous; he was big and black; most important, he was an American, one of us, not some cheese-eating, surrender specialist Froggie."<ref name="Bourdain 2013 p. 138">{{cite book | last=Bourdain | first=Anthony | author-link=Anthony Bourdain | title=Kitchen Confidential | publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4088-4504-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAsRYpsX9dEC&pg=PA138 | page=138}}</ref> [[Jeremy Clarkson]] used it on ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]'' in June 2003, describing the handling of the [[Renault Clio V6]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Top Gear - Jeremy Clarkson "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys"| date=6 October 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4FpJ-PSnpQ&vl=en-GB |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/f4FpJ-PSnpQ |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2019-09-08}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He later used it in a 4 June 2006 episode of ''Top Gear'', to describe the manufacturers of the [[Citroën C6]].{{citation needed|date=August 2019}} Later on in the television show, (Series 13, Episode 5) Clarkson describes the other French drivers as "cheese-eating sideways monkeys", referring to the fact that the other drivers were overtaking him while sliding sideways.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
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