cheddar curtain
n.— «At that time of year (Feb, March), I will probably be in Wisconsin. So I will fly back from behind the Cheddar curtain.» —“Re: Tasteless Secret SAnta” by Julian Macassey Usenet: alt.tasteless Nov. 10, 1993. (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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