Why did people think that the moon is made of cheese?

Question

Just a random question

Answer 1

IT's because of the holes that made the moon look like cheese.

Answer 2

I think because it has holes and it looks like blue cheese. =)

Answer 3

Because of its color.

Answer 4

They think it is made of cheese because of the craters on the moon's surface (Which doesn't even go all the way through the moon).

Answer 5

It might interest you to know that sound travels through lunar rocks at the same speed it travels through cheese. So while the moon is made of rocks, the people who thought it was made of cheese weren't too far off. :-)

Answer 6

It's due to high quality documentaries like Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day out :)

Answer 7

dunno... it is a bit odd!

Answer 8

Check out BeachBum's link.

Some guy said (half as a joke, half as an insult) that the peasants were so ignorant that you might as well tell them that the Moon is made of greene cheese, and they would believe you.

(greene = unaged;  young cheese)

However, he did not say that they did believe that.

But the joke was good enough to be repeated and it led to the idea that people did believe it.  It sort of became a standard answer to children asking questions to their parents:

What the Moon made of?

Err....  green cheese.  Now go to bed and don't ask stupid questions.

Answer 9

because it is cheese!

i just went up there today, its the best cheese i've ever tasted.

Answer 10

The craters look like certain types of cheese.

Answer 11

perhaps with the same reason as some thought it was heaven. (i.e. lack of knowledge)

Answer 12

Because it's round, yellow and so is Cheddar cheese.

And they had no better explanation.

Answer 13

it is obvious

of course because they are hungry...

Answer 14

Uncle Cecil knows all...

Answer 15

But is IS made of cheese - look at this.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPc0sE6V9Z...

Answer 16

People over the age of 5 never actually thought that...it was just a story told to children who asked what the moon was, just because it looks a bit like cheese....

Answer 17

it was a myth and people use it more as a joke now.

Answer 18

ppl think wrong, it is not cheese, it is soil

Answer 19

I think that the most likely answer is that people made this up for children to believe. Rather than trying to explain to them astronomy and how the moon was formed, it's easier to tell them that it's made of cheese and mice like it!