Big Block Of Cheese day

Today, gentle reader, my subject is cheese. Cheese and poetry: two subjects that go together like... chalk and cheese.

Back in the days before television, the people of North America didn't have many choices entertainment-wise. In Europe you guys had culture, but in America the only culture related to cheese.

This was also, remember, before refrigeration. If you wanted to keep milk in a form that wouldn't go bad in a week, you made cheese. Big honkin' wheels of cheese. There must have been some point when the local cheesemaking clans downed one too many porters and decided that cheese could be bigger. But as is so often the case, it took a religious nutjob man of God to inspire the creation of a cheese masterpiece.
( Read on for giant cheeses aplenty )

For extra credit: If you were given an enormous cheese as a tribute to your mighty deeds, what would you do with it?

Big Block Of Cheese day

Today, gentle reader, my subject is cheese. Cheese and poetry: two subjects that go together like... chalk and cheese.

Back in the days before television, the people of North America didn't have many choices entertainment-wise. In Europe you guys had culture, but in America the only culture related to cheese.

This was also, remember, before refrigeration. If you wanted to keep milk in a form that wouldn't go bad in a week, you made cheese. Big honkin' wheels of cheese. There must have been some point when the local cheesemaking clans downed one too many porters and decided that cheese could be bigger. But as is so often the case, it took a religious nutjob man of God to inspire the creation of a cheese masterpiece.
( Read on for giant cheeses aplenty )

For extra credit: If you were given an enormous cheese as a tribute to your mighty deeds, what would you do with it?