You may have thought the most dangerous thing about cheese was the mould, but then you’ve probably never stood atop Cooper’s Hill on this mad Monday. The premise is simple: a handmade, seven-pound circle of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down the hill and a gaggle of people chase down behind it. The first to the bottom of the hill (or to grab the cheese) wins, and gets to keep the cheese. Which does nothing to explain the mud, the slippery grass, the slope and the injury toll.
A 200-year-old tradition (though a wooden cheese was used during rationing after WWII), it is unashamedly a cheesy event but it draws around 5000 spectators and an international cast of competitors, with Australians and Kiwis seeming to do particularly well.
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