"Cheese and rice"?

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A new girl started at the office, and she's quite a peculiar character.  She moved here from Alabama and is definitely the excitable type. Every office has one I guess.

One thing she says every now and then is cheese and rice. Like, I'll ask her a question about something, and she'll reply, "Oh, cheese and rice, I don't know!"

A quick Google search turned up nothing but casserole recipes. Does "cheese and rice" mean anything? Is this something I just attribute to her strange perkiness, or is this just a Southern thing?

JSBձոգչ · Accepted Answer

I've never heard this phrase before, and I don't know if it's prevalent in Alabama. However, I suspect that it's a taboo deformation of Jesus Christ, albeit a more colorful and idiosyncratic one than the most common variants.

Correct answer by JSBձոգչ on August 2, 2021

Fergus · Answer

This is a less offensive way of saying Jesus Christ per the urban dictionary.

Hugo · Answer

One of the DVD extras for the 2007 film Hot Fuzz is a "contractual airline version" where all swearwords have been replaced with clean euphemisms. It includes replacing "Jesus Christ!" with "Cheese and rice!", such as in:

"Cheese and rice, Mother Hubbard!

The very first definition in Urban Dictionary shows this had been done before:

1. cheese and rice
This is a less offensive way of saying "Jesus Christ"
It originated with the [1998] movie 'The Faculty'. In the real version, one of the characters exclaimed "Jesus Christ!" but in the edited TV version, they had it changed to "Cheese and rice!"
Guy #1: Aliens landed on Earth!
Guy #2: Cheese and rice!
by crowdish Nov 15, 2003

"Cheese and rice"?

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