Cheddar
About Cheddar
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Wells, 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Weston-super-Mare and 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Bristol. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross. The parish had a population of 5,755 in 2011 and an acreage of 8,592 acres (3,477 ha) as of 1961.
On the show — 14 mentions total
The oldest complete skeleton found in Britain was the guy who was found in Cheddar Gorge, who's 9,000 years old. They tried to trace some of his descendants — they decided to just look in the local area, and they found this guy, Adrian Target, who's a school teacher, who's a direct descendant on his mother's side of this 9,000-year-old skeleton.
from No Such Thing As The Mountains of Kong, 2014-03-28 at 00:13:08 · read transcript
Other times Cheddar came up
The guy who invented a lot of chocolate biscuits, died recently. He died at age 81. It was last month. Apparently he created Cheddar's, Mini Cheddar's, and he created Cracker Wheat, and he created Hobnobs. He worked for Meredith and Drew, which became United Biscuits, which are the company that owned McVitie's, in 1960. He invented a whole bunch of recipes. Apparently people who worked at the company would just write down these recipes and then they'd shove them in a box somewhere.
162: No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 · listen
I went, I mean, I'm loving all the stuff that I really dug deep on the tulip buzz. I went down quite a rabbit hole of terrible gifts from royal families. Brilliant. In 1851, Queen Victoria sent American president of the United States. You see, the Queen Victoria sent the president, Millard Fillmore, a 1,000 pound block of cheddar cheese. Wow. 450 kgs, it's nearly half a tonne of cheddar. Wow, so like a week's supply almost. Well...
567: No Such Thing As A Honey Badger On Toast, 2025-01-23 · listen
No, no, the song just is not. The grand old Doug of Cardiff. Yes. Right. Also there are two cities. These are both in England, which are not allowed to use without permission. Okay. Bath. Cheddar. Winter? Winter? Oh. Lydia has got one of them, Windsor. The other one is very, very difficult to guess. Is it a pun? Is it something that means something else? No, it's not.
No Such Thing As The Grand Old Dug Of Cardiff, 2024-03-28 · listen
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