Gouda's Cheesewheel

Cheese Facts

As an end-of-the-year, Greta-has-no-plans-on-her-day-off cleansing ritual, I'm going through old emails and sorting or deleting the older ones. Here is something Jenn had sent me in October of 2007 apparently:

"Until the late 19th Century

some people paid their rent with Cheese.


Cheese has been used as glue and

some very mature cheese has been used as cement.


There is an old saying of

"The bigger the dairymaid the better the cheese"

This is usually because she would be stronger in pressing the cheese.


In the peasants revolt of 1381

anybody unable to say "bread and cheese"

Without a foreign accent was sent to the block.



Chasing the cheese was a popular game

in various parts of England,

usually on the Spring Bank Holiday

cheeses would be rolled down hills for prizes.


They that made me were uncivil

For they made me harder than the devil;

Knives won't cut me, fire won't sweat me,

Dogs bark at me but won't eat me.

The above was a rhyme of the now forgotten

17th Century Essex and Suffolk cheeses.


In traditional forms,

Cheshire is the tallest cheese at 15 inches and

Leicester the widest at 18 inches."

Found at http://www.geocities.com/burgerzking/cheesefacts.html

posted by Greta @ 5:23 PM