quote:Originally posted by Calum:that is the sort of thing i would set as the desktop wallpaper in internet cafes...
quote:from www.cheeseracing.org (link posted by macman):Welcome to the world of professional Cheese Racing!This is the official homepage of the exciting cutting edge sport known as Cheese Racing. Here you will find everything you need to know about this deceptively simple, yet addictive and fiercely competitive sport.New Stuff: Check out the all new forum - there is an explanation for the change in the 'General' section.Details of the recent CRASS event in France can be found here. Not that much cheese racing action but some interesting experiments with the local cheese.Reader's photos - we have been quite literally inundated with photos of cheese racing action from all over the world (well mostly America), some of the best are now on the photos page. Keep them coming!Get all the latest Cheese Racing news on the news page.IntroductionQ: What do you think happens when you throw a slice of processed cheese (without removing the plastic wrapping) onto a lit barbeque?The plastic melts giving off highly toxic fumes and you are left with a pretty grim cheese/plastic mess welded on to your BBQ, right?WRONG!Unbelievably what actually happens, as discovered by the pioneers and inventors of the sport way back in 1997 (read their account of that historic night on a campsite in Osmington here), is that the plastic pouch does not melt - even when the cheese inside eventually boils! Even more incredibly, as the cheese melts and the strange chemicals found in processed cheese turn to gas - the plastic pouch inflates until eventually all four corners lift off the BBQ and the pouch is fully inflated! Now under this pressure you might think that the pouch would eventually burst - but no - most of the time the seal remains intact!Quite why processed cheese manufacturers choose to use such industrial strength, heat proof plastic to encase their products is something of a mystery - as is why NASA don't use this material instead of those expensive heat proof tiles on the space shuttle? Such important questions no doubt occurred to the first observers of this phenomenon on that night in Osmington, but that didn't stop them from coming up with a brilliantly simple sport based on it.The GameEach player throws a slice of cheese onto the BBQ.The player who's cheese fully inflates first wins!The full official CRASS (Cheese Racing Association) rules can be found here - but that is basically it! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------In the rest of the site you will find everything you need to know about this fast growing and exciting sport - you may be sceptical now but believe me, once you have witnessed or taken part in your first cheese racing tournament - you will be hooked!
