cheddaphobia

[Tyrion Cheddar]

Is cheddaphobia still prevalent? If so, should literature get involved in going head to head with it? I know goudaphobia was extensive for a while outside of the city in the Netherlands for which the cheese was named, but that was back in the late 12th and early 13th Centuries. Likewise Jarlsberg struck fear in the hearts of those uninitiated in the ways of Norwegians, in the mid 1850s. But cheddar. Cheddar seems such a friendly cheese, and so common nowadays, it's hard to imagine bias against it persisting, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

[wcc-curtis]

I don't know if cheddaphobia is prevalent, but I do know that there are a lot of phobias that pertain to food and eating. Some people can not eat near antiques. Take Billy Bob Thornton, for example. How does he explain his phobia? "I've had friends tell me that maybe I was beaten to death with an antique chair in a former life," said Thornton.

[YesNo]

I suspect people don't really "fear" cheddar. Long ago, they might have thought they'd turn into cheddar if they ate too much of it like the Moon did, but now-a-days they know that is not likely to happen.

[Whifflingpin]

Eating too much cheddar is a well documented malady, known in literature and popular lore as the "Cheddar Gorge." (Plenty of information about it in Wookeypedia)

[cacian]

cheddar? that is a typical English cheese.
that is almost like saying englishphobia.

[Pompey Bum]

I suspect people don't really "fear" cheddar. Long ago, they might have thought they'd turn into cheddar if they ate too much of it like the Moon did, but now-a-days they know that is not likely to happen.

A minor point, YesNo, but the moon is actually made of green cheese. I trust my pointing this out does not detract from the solidarity of the CGBT (cheddar, green, blue, takelma) community. As you know, diversity requires obliterating differences.

[Danik 2016]

I consider myself very cheese receptive in general, have however had some small arguments with my stomach on that point.
From my very reduced experience of Cheddar I would risk the following rating of that cheese::angel::ciappa::devil:

[Tyrion Cheddar]

A minor point, YesNo, but the moon is actually made of green cheese. I trust my pointing this out does not detract from the solidarity of the CGBT (cheddar, green, blue, takelma) community. As you know, diversity requires obliterating differences.

As always, PB, you are astute as well as having attractive thighs. You make an interesting point: Could it be that cheddar has become the lingua franca of cheeses--appearing everywhere from the snack chips we buy to the french fries we stuff our gourds with to the popcorn we explode into being in our microwaves--as part of a stealth effort by agents of the CGBT to eliminate alternate cheeses in the name of diversity? Have lobbyists for gouda, edam and brie persistently and with tireless endeavor sought equal rights for their own noble curds?

[Pompey Bum]

Well, as you know, the Curds have suffered terribly despite considerable battlefield bravery. It's like I say every time Isis strikes: "Get those Peshmergan troops in there!" Their weapons are cheesy versions of what our troops get, and yet they remain sharp in combat and mild in temperament. King Herod was an Edomite, yet he was a total cheeseball compared to our Curdish friends. And while not Christians, still they respect Jesus as a prophet. Here is common ground indeed. What a friend we have in cheeses!

[Tyrion Cheddar]

:hurray: PB, I could try, try, to compete with that, but won't, knowing as I do that I have, for the time being, been outclassed. So please just accept this :thumbsup: and bit of unbridled cheerleading until I think of a worthy rejoinder, as I shall strive to do while walking on the treadmill presently.

[Pompey Bum]

Thanks. Take your time. :)

[Tyrion Cheddar]

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

--GK Chesterton

[North Star]

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

--GK Chesterton
You'll find Alarms and Discursions, Ch. 9: Cheese here: http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/alarms-and-discursions/9/

[Tyrion Cheddar]

You'll find Alarms and Discursions, Ch. 9: Cheese here: http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/alarms-and-discursions/9/

Thank you, North Star, your citation is fully accurate. Mind you, old GK wasn't the only one to express cheese-related dismay:

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”

― Charles de Gaulle