Take off the hat, you cheesehead [Hate speach from the 1970s]

Capital Times ^ | 3-14-06 | Doug Moe

[SJackson]

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this Upper Midwest outdoors list, please FRmail me.

[lesser_satan]

As a Twin Cities resident, I appreciate the nearly infinite stockpile of beer and cheese available a mere twenty miles away.

[Blackirish]

When driving through the Cheddar Curtain...The Il and WI border....you need to stop at the "Brat-Stop" for a schooner of Old Style and a killer brat.

[Little Bill]

The flatlander thing is a common term in NH for we Massholes. I resent it. I was exiled to the Peoples Republic from Utah, and everything in Utah is higher than NH, the hospital I was born in is over a mile above sea level. I won't get into the bunny hills that they ski on.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have tons of Packers garb, but I do not own a Cheesehead hat. I really love my Green Bay Packers hard hat, though. It deflects a flying beer can like nothing else I've found. :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Nope.

I am NOT responding.

No, no, NO! ;)

[Shalom Israel]

Even Wensleydale?

[Indy Pendance]

Rent "The Great Outdoors" with John Candy, great spoof about the WI/Il rivalry.

[Brad’s Gramma]

You.

Off the net.

NOW!

:)

[Fatuncle]

"Cheese, Gromit!"

[Spirochete]

... bittersweet mystery, a lovely film.

Quick, somebody post the Eric Estrada "You're A Homo" pic.

[muglywump]

Who cut the............

[irish guard]

HAHAHA....the former Bishop of Green Bay and Packer fan, is now Cardinal Maida of Detroit. A friend of mine from Notre Dame worked with him and after the Packers won the Super Bowl in 1996, I sent Cardinal Maida a cheesehead, which he proudly wore in his offices in Detroit for a day. I have a great photo of him wearing the wedge of cheese.

The article is very accurate in describing people who wear the wedge as either fools or do it for laughs. Some wear it seriously and they are fools, the ones who do it for laughs get the joke.

Say what you will, we love our cheese here in the land of beer, brats and cheese and we hate the flatlanders from the south.

[SES1066]

I cannot help but wonder if there is any correlation between the pejorative "Cheesehead" and that predecessor to spam and school cafeteria mystery meats; "Head Cheese".

A quick lookup rendered this definition, "Not a cheese at all, but a sausage made from the meaty bits of the head of a calf or pig (sometimes a sheep or cow) that are seasoned, combined with a gelatinous meat broth and cooked in a mold. When cool, the sausage is unmolded and thinly sliced. It`s usually eaten at room temperature.".

At the first look I have known some people whose brains were as functional as this substance. Their proclivity to wearing a cheese hat is unknown although Mr Dean's picture is suggestive.

[SJackson]

I cannot help but wonder if there is any correlation between the pejorative "Cheesehead" and that predecessor to spam and school cafeteria mystery meats; "Head Cheese".

I doubt it. It would make a great Phd thesis though. Feingold could find a grant. Besides, not everyone considers it a pejorative.

[SES1066]

Besides, not everyone considers it a pejorative.

Yes and apologies, no intention to offend. I will say in passing though, that as a loyal fan of the Tampa Bay Bucs, for many years I've seen some really cheesy Cheeseheads.

Having the Bucs win the Super Bowl in '03 was sweet especially after all of those years where we would end up in Green Bay in January - Brrrrrrrr. I miss the old Black and Blue division and I hope that there is a new man to fill the mighty QB shoes of Brett and Bart.

[elli1]

Apparently Illinois residents had called us "cheeseheads" in the manner that some Wisconsin residents call Illinois people "flatlanders." >/I>

Maybe that's what they call them down in Madtown...

[elli1]

I cannot help but wonder if there is any correlation between the pejorative "Cheesehead" and that predecessor to spam and school cafeteria mystery meats; "Head Cheese".

No mystery/ no connection. It's the Cheese.