• Question: why do some people think the moon is made of cheese

    Asked by mariaa to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Do they? Probably because it was in a fairy tale – didn’t some creature decide to get to the moon to eat the cheese?

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Pip is right. This is a local one to me. A story about some cheese smugglers in Devizes who were trying to avoid paying some tax. They would hide their cheese at the bottom of a pond and fetch it with a rake. When the police came along, they said they were trying to fetch the (reflection of the) moon out from the lake. They looked like simple country folk, and so were left alone. There is a term ‘moonrakers’ too.

      Also, the moon looks yellow when it is low in the sky.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      I don’t think that I can anything add to these answers

    • Photo: Tianfu Yao

      Tianfu Yao answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Agree.

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