Do not cut your cheese or your entry will be expelled.

https://worldchampioncheese.org/

Look up colby horn in Image Search and you get a load of people called Colby Horn.

Reminds me of a quote by Charles de Gaul.

“The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 cheeses”

mollwollfumble said:

Reminds me of a quote by Charles de Gaul.

“The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 cheeses”

and then there was Vichy France…

fsm said:

Do not cut your cheese or your entry will be expelled.

https://worldchampioncheese.org/

is America the only cuntry
in which “Cutting the Cheese” means To Fart?

Ogmog said:

fsm said:

Do not cut your cheese or your entry will be expelled.

https://worldchampioncheese.org/

is America the only cuntry
in which “Cutting the Cheese” means To Fart?

1 Answer
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Cut the cheese:

(Slang) to release intestinal gas. (Crude. Use caution with the topic.) – Who cut the cheese? People who cut the mustard in the car have to get out and walk.

(TFD)

It’s difficult to track down the origin of this expression, but according the The Phrase Finder:

“Cut” has been used for flatulence since the 1800s, as testified by several sources and continued today in the mainly American expression, “To cut a fart”. Rude Boy says cheese was introduced to the mix in the late 1960s, citing the Dictionary of American Regional English. While according to The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English the expression is an AmE one from 1959.

The following example is from The Definitive Fart Book – 1961:

Funny, everybody does it, but nobody wants anybody to know they’re the somebody who: Cut the Cheese, Passed the Gas, Let One Rip, Shot a Bunny, Copped a Pop, Popped a Bubble, Cranked a Smoker, Pinched an Egg, Split the …

Probably the simple and more intuitive answer is the right one, referring to the strong odour that emanates when the rind is cut on some of the more pungent cheese varities.

roughbarked said:

Ogmog said:

fsm said:

Do not cut your cheese or your entry will be expelled.

https://worldchampioncheese.org/

is America the only cuntry
in which “Cutting the Cheese” means To Fart?

1 Answer
9

Cut the cheese:

(Slang) to release intestinal gas. (Crude. Use caution with the topic.) – Who cut the cheese? People who cut the mustard in the car have to get out and walk.

(TFD)

It’s difficult to track down the origin of this expression, but according the The Phrase Finder:

“Cut” has been used for flatulence since the 1800s, as testified by several sources and continued today in the mainly American expression, “To cut a fart”. Rude Boy says cheese was introduced to the mix in the late 1960s, citing the Dictionary of American Regional English. While according to The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English the expression is an AmE one from 1959.

The following example is from The Definitive Fart Book – 1961:

Funny, everybody does it, but nobody wants anybody to know they’re the somebody who: Cut the Cheese, Passed the Gas, Let One Rip, Shot a Bunny, Copped a Pop, Popped a Bubble, Cranked a Smoker, Pinched an Egg, Split the …

Probably the simple and more intuitive answer is the right one, referring to the strong odour that emanates when the rind is cut on some of the more pungent cheese varities.

Haven’t ever heard it used in Australia but then I’m not widely travelled.