Sentence examples for cheese rolling from inspiring English sources

Long before the measure, and long after, Lord Onslow was a favorite of the world news media, for even in a nation known for cheese rolling and competitive nettle eating, he was a somewhat unusual character.

A baffling multitude of events will entertain across the country – including a record attempt for the longest line of bunting, to a party in a phone box and a Jubilee-themed cheese rolling competition.

If I was lucky, I would be going to something like a village fair – you know the kind of thing: men putting weasels down their trousers, people bobbing for frogs in a bucket, the odd cheese rolling too fast down a hill… It was a lot of fun back then.

An entrepreneur spotted its potential a couple of years ago and made a deal with the council to turn it into a two-day festival, with tickets at £20 – a kind of mini-Glastonbury with music, circus events and a bit of cheese rolling thrown in.

We have the odd eccentric regional event, like gravy wrestling in Lancashire, treacherous cheese rolling in Gloucestershire, Yorkshire pudding boat races near the market town of Malton, and of course we're famed for our pub crawls, which involve some element of exercise.

If you ever feel the need to chase after a cheese rolling down a hill, take part in a stinging nettle-eating competition or pitch your gurning skills against others, there is a good chance you are English.

Although she made large batches of the stuff, a thousand, twelve hundred at a time, relying on a family recipe from Abruzzi (an improbable mixture of calf's brains, pork sausage, chicken, Swiss chard, and parmigiano and Romano cheeses), and rolling out the dough with a long pole, prized for the texture it created ("rough, like a cat's tongue"), she allowed the children only six pieces.

· tuebinger-entenrennen.de Cheese Rolling, Gloucestershire, UK More "cheese-following" than "cheese-rolling": a Gloucester cheese is hurled down a steep hill, and groups of men and women tear after it in turn.

And anyway, who'd want to go cheese-rolling in the snow?

"Take the winners of the bog-snorkeling and cheese-rolling events.

There's the ancient sport of cheese-rolling, for starters, or how about a spot of mountain bike bog-snorkelling?