cheddar curtain
n.— «People heading to Wisconsin can find information about road construction behind the cheddar curtain by logging onto www.dot.wisconsin.gov.» —“Don’t let road work ruin travel” Northwest Herald (Chicago) May 23, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Sara in Madison, Wisconsin, was reading an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and came across a recipe that described a cake’s ingredients as earrings for an elephant. She couldn’t discern whether the authors meant that was a good thing...
After our conversation about wishing well eggs, a listener from Viroqua, Wisconsin, chimes in with another name for this egg-in-toast dish: UFOs, short for Unidentified Frying Objects. This is part of a complete episode.
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