Just Cheesy: The Podcast! Slap the Cheese

Cheesy and Fondue learn about some risqué cheese sayings. We venture into inappropriate cheese slang territory. We find out about slapping the cheese, making cheese, old cheese, we tell our famous cheesy joke and we need your help to start our very own cheese saying! #givingcheese

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Why is cheddar the most dangerous of all the cheeses? Because it is very sharp!

Show Notes 

Slap the Cheese

http://www.fearlessfalling.com/FearlessFalling-SlaptheCheese.html

Cheese Eater

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cheese-eater#

Make cheese

https://dressaday.com/2006/09/06/make-cheese/

https://aftercheese.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/cheese-slang-pt-1-woman-cheese-and-the-western-world/

Cheesecake The Oxford Companion to Cheese

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language College Edition 1950's

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cheesecake

Old Cheese

Cheese boy/girl

https://library.panos.co.uk/features/stories/i-m-not-a-cheese-boy.html#:~:text=%5B%22Cheese%20Boy%22%20is%20township,in%20his%20or%20her%20sandwich%5D

Dreikasehoch (dry kay suh hoch

https://germanyinusa.com/2018/03/16/word-of-the-week-dreikasehoch/

Cut the cheese

https://7esl.com/category/idioms/food-idioms/cheese-idioms/

Cheeseball

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/cheeseball_n?tl=true

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20cheeseballs

Cheese Spot

https://www.deposits.org/dictionary/term/cheese-spot-call/#google_vignette

Episode Transcript

(00:09):
Just Cheesy:The podcast,presented by Just Cheesy Productions.
Hi there. I'm your host,Fondue. In this week's episode, we're
gonna learn about some risquecheese sayings. We're gonna venture

(00:29):
into inappropriate territoryhere with some cheese slang. We're
gonna talk about slapping thecheese, making cheese, or old cheese?
Oh, no.
And we're gonna learn whereyou can find the cheese spot. And
of course, no episode would becomplete without our very cheesy
joke.
Yes, joke.
Stay tuned for episode 176,Slap the Cheese on Just Cheesy the

(00:51):
podcast. Have you ever heardof the term slapping the cheese?
I'm afraid it's not as bad asyou think.
Okay.
It's actually kind of. I don'twanna say funny, but maybe a little
bit.
Okay.
According to fearlessfalling.com
Oh no.
They say the National SafetyCouncil classifies falls into five

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categories. Slips, trips,stumbles, tumbles and crumples. I
feel like I've done a fewcrumples in my time. Oh, yeah. But
slapping the cheese is aspecific technique to address fall
number two, which is a forward trip.
Oh, no.
They say when we trip oversomething, we stagger, stumble forward
to recover or just go downimmediately. The immediate fall is

(01:33):
called a flash fall. Cause ithappens a flash. You're already down
on the floor by time yourealize you're falling down.
Oh, no.
They say there's no time forany full body twisting or fancy maneuvers.
Your face is flying toward theground and your arms and hands instinctively
pull up and reach out forwardto try to stop the fall. And they
say, don't do it. Do not reachout with your arms stiff and rigid.

(01:54):
Oh, boy.
They say not to do it that waybecause if you try to stop your fall
with your hands, you mightbreak your fingers, your wrist, elbow,
or even your shoulder joints.
What?
Instead they say, keep yourhands raised in front of your face
and at the last moment, youslap the ground with your whole arm,
from your fingers all the wayto your lower forearm. They say you

(02:14):
should exhale sharply and lookup with your neck tensed. So if you're
going to face plant, don'tforget to slap the cheese. I hope
you've never been called acheese eater.
Oh, no, What's that?
No, It's also not what youthink. According to Dictionary.com,
it's an informer or a rat or aperson who betrays, denies or abandons
their associates.
I'm no cheese eater.
Have you ever tried making cheese?

(02:35):
Yeah.
According to dressaday.com,this is an English idiom, really.
To make cheese or perform acheese, a woman would spread their
skirt or petticoat around onthe floor by swirling it before sinking
down.
Okay.
After cheese.WordPress.comsays that when you make cheese, you
would twirl your skirt, youwould promptly sit down so that everything
poofs out nice and round, justlike a wheel of cheese. But then

(02:58):
it starts to get a little morerisque. The cheese slang progressed
from cheerful cheese making toforms of exhibitionism and voyeurism,
no longer innocent and lighthearted. And they say soon men made
an activity of leering,checking the cheese or browsing the
street for cuties. As they say.
Oh, no.
As they shared theirdiscoveries with mutterings like

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nice piece of cheese or tastypiece of cheddar.
Wow.
We've also heard before thatthe online slang dictionary says
that cheese could mean anattractive male. And you've probably
heard the term beefcake beingused as a derogatory term toward
a good looking or muscularman. But there's also one called
cheesecake.
Oh, no.
The Webster's New Worlddictionary around the 1950s says

(03:40):
that a cheesecake is thedisplay of the figure, especially
the legs of a pretty girl. TheAfter Cheese WordPress.com says that
there's a Spanish proverb,cheese without a rind is like a maiden
without shame.
Whoa.
And if that Isn't bad enough,UrbanDictionary.com has the term
cheesecaking as the act ofexposing yourself or performing lewd

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acts in public.
Oh, no.

(04:54):
They say that cottage cheesecan refer to some feminine feature
like cellulite. According tothe Oxford Companion to Cheese, old
cheese is an Australiansaying. I don't know how true this
is, but they say it's a quote,term of endearment for a mother or
a wife. I don't think I'd wantto be compared to old cheese. Old
cheese, cottage cheese andcheesecake are not sponsored, but

(05:16):
if they were, the ad would goright here. Maybe you've heard of
the term cheese boy or cheesegirl. According to library.panos.co.uk
a cheese boy is a slang forsomeone who has money or who could
afford to put cheese on his orher sandwich. This next term is a
German word and I'm going tobutcher it. Sorry about that, but

(05:38):
this one just cracks me up.Germany in USA.com says, what do
you call a little kid inGerman? Well, it's this word and
it's literally translatedthree cheeses tall.
Whoa.
Apparently cheese was prettypopular in the Middle Ages and people
Knew what to expect when theyobtained a wheel of cheese because
they were usually about thesame size and weight.
Oh yeah.

(05:58):
And as a result, cheese becamea standard measuring device in homes
across Europe. This termoriginated in the 18th century in
Northern Germany, Referring tolittle boys as no taller than three
stacked wheels of cheese. Youknow, when I think about measuring
people by cheese, I also thinkabout measuring cheese by cutting
it. But there's a good termthat we all know called cutting the

(06:19):
cheese. And it has nothing todo with getting cheese into little
chunks. This is a euphemismfor passing gas like farting, right?
Or to fart.
Oh yeah.
Only a true cheese ball wouldcut the cheese. Cheese ball is literally
a ball of cheese. Or a cheeseball is usually a person who's regarded
as foolish or disreputable orlacking taste. I prefer the definitions

(06:42):
that come fromurbandictionary.com where they talk
about slapstick humor. Orsomeone who pretends to be funny
telling corny old jokes. Orsomeone that just acts like a three
year old.
Like us.
That's totally us. And that'swhy we call our fans cheese balls.
Because we love silly things.
Heck yeah.
We're not talking about peoplewho are cheese brained.
Oh no.
Cheese brained means lackingintelligence or foolish. If someone

(07:06):
tells me a silly joke, I knowI'd be cheesing really hard. It's
the act of smiling so intentlythat someone might almost laugh.
And then I imagine that youwould wonder if we found the all
elusive cheese spot we have.According to deposits.org, a cheese
spot call is a commoditymarket term. And this refers to cheddar

(07:27):
cheese futures contracts forsame day physical delivery which
are traded by open outcry onthe floor of the Chicago mercantile
exchange. Not what youthought, was it?
No.
I don't know about you cheesy,but I just can't believe how many
idioms or slang terms thereare for the word cheese. Right. We've
only scratched the surface.There's so many in fact, that we
thought, why not start one ofour own? Oh yeah, that's right. Starting

(07:50):
today there's a new saying in town.
Oh yeah.
We're going to create our owngiving cheese. That's right, giving
cheese. Here's the definition.Exhibiting qualities that are excessively
silly, corny, over the top inan amusing or exaggerated manner.
And how you use it is likethis. You see that old school dance
routine? It's totally givingcheese his over the top love letter.

(08:12):
Giving cheese, but in a cuteway. That matching holiday sweater
set oh, it's absolutely givingcheese. Yeah, I know you want to
be in on the ground floor ofsomething cool, so help us out here.
Yes, please.
We're going to be using the#givingcheese on all of our socials.
We're talking Twitter, TikTok,YouTube, Insta, anywhere we have
something funny. We're gonnabe putting #givingcheese because

(08:34):
you know for sure that thispodcast is always giving cheese.
I'm ready for a joke fondue.
Okay. What do you call a highlevel meeting of cheeses?
Who knows?
A cheese board. Get it? Acheese board.
Giving cheese.
Oh my gosh, you're so right.It is giving cheese and it's a little
bit cheesy. Thanks forlistening to Just Cheesy the podcast,

(08:57):
episode 170, slap the cheese.
Thank you.
Don't forget to help us out byputting #givingcheese everywhere
you can on social media. Let'sget this saying started and stay
cheesy, everybody.