# Why does "the cheese stand alone"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440 "2006-06-28T03:17:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/21 "2006-06-28T22:32:29Z")
When I’m Bleu I feel like being alone sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/22 "2006-06-28T22:56:19Z")
Because, sometime, a cheese just has to stand up for what’s right- regardless of the consequences. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/23 "2006-06-28T22:59:02Z")
The song’s got to end somehow, and it has to be something that holds to the same meter as “the rat takes the cheese” (or “the farmer takes a wife”, or any of the other iterations). ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/24 "2006-06-29T02:38:47Z")
Well you know what it’s like when someone _cuts_ the cheese… would you want to stand next to that? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/25 "2006-06-29T02:42:51Z")
It stands alone as the Packer’s have won more titles than any other NFL team in history. Oh, wait, that’s Cheeseheads. Sorry. Best guess? Limburger cheese. Probably the first to be packaged as it couldn’t stand to be not seperated from itself. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/26 "2006-06-29T02:53:19Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > And don’t get me started on Operation The Cheese Stands Alone, the secret government program to give away cheese to the needy… Mmmm…government cheese…\ When I was a kid, my grandparents got government cheese. I have fond memories of it for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/27 "2006-06-29T04:48:20Z")
We got government cheese at the Boy Scout camp where I worked for five summers. And Twix bars by the boxcar-load, for some reason… ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/28 "2006-06-29T05:59:38Z")
Because same-cheese marriage has not yet been allowed by activist courts. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/29 "2006-06-29T09:39:57Z")
So that’s why there was that silly MtG card… ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/30 "2006-06-29T11:09:38Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > So that’s why there was that silly MtG card… Which was exactly what I thought of too, but I couldn’t work “the meat has frequent visitors” into a witty reply. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/31 "2006-06-29T12:47:03Z")
Maybe the cheese wasn’t a gouda dancer. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/32 "2006-06-29T13:11:56Z")
He was afraid someone would Edam. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/33 "2006-06-29T13:57:20Z")
No, he was Emmenthal cheese, and everyone was sick of his holier-than-thou attitude. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/34 "2006-06-29T14:52:14Z")
Because while it pretended to be nice, it was really a predatory muenster. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/35 "2006-06-29T15:19:13Z")
Everyone else scurried after they heard him say, “Leave me alone or I’ll spray you with pepper, Jack”. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/36 "2006-06-29T15:23:12Z")
When we sing it here at home, my little girls stand and raise a fist for the last verse–it’s some sort of Cheese Power thing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/37 "2006-06-29T15:34:08Z")
If it was Swiss cheese, it was probably neutral on the whole standing-alone thing… ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/38 "2006-06-29T15:43:21Z")
Poor cheese was feta’d to stand alone. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/39 "2006-06-29T18:06:33Z")
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.” ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-cheese-stand-alone/362440/40 "2006-06-29T18:28:37Z")
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