Trappist Cheese (1936)

Mon Mar 10 14:45:22 UTC 2003

In a message dated 3/9/2003 5:05:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bapopik at AOL.COM
writes:

> [Trappist Cheese is]  Cheese used in mouse traps.  Nah, only kidding.
>
My father always referred to Cheddar Cheese as "rat-trap cheese".  Has anyone
else ever heard this term?

By the way, the Trappist monks maintain a vow of silence.  David Maurer (and
mayber other linguists as well) once did a study on how these monks
communicated.

      - Jim Landau