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FAQ
There's not much to it, a kind of rolled-up version of a Welsh rarebit, made with evaporated milk, cheddar cheese, and onion soup mix in many of its simpler incarnations. Many recipes call for finely diced raw onion as well, or cayenne pepper, or mustard powder, or Worcestershire sauce.
The rules of the cheese rolling race are straightforward: a group lines up at the top of the hill and once the cheese is rolled, the group races down to the bottom. Ideally, the first person to grab the cheese wins, but the cheese rolls so fast that it far-and-away beats the racers.
A cheese roll (occasionally known by the older name of cheese roll-up) is a New Zealand snack food similar to Welsh rarebit, but created by covering a slice of bread in a prepared filling consisting mainly of grated or sliced cheese, and then rolling it into a tube shape before toasting.
The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, at Brockworth near Gloucester, England. Participants race down the 200-yard (180 m) long hill chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese.
Englands. Cheese rolling at Cooper's hill is a historic tradition, an example of England's quirkiness and an extreme sport. The event runs in may each year at Cooper's Hill near Brockworth in the county of Gloucestershire, which is near Bristol.