Cutting the Cheese

For some reason this morning while fixing lunch including a new cheese (to me) that I picked up at Whole Foods (another new experience for me), I was cutting that cheese and notice that I was releasing an odor; pleasant in this case. Viola!!! Aha!!! It hit me. Since childhood I have known that phrase that would pop out when someone passed gas, flatuated, farted, had an oh oh... etc. "Who Cut the Cheese". I had stumbled onto the meaning and origin of that phrase.... So, not one to let it go at that, I thought I should "look it up".. Here's one site: Phrases.org. I found it interesting that at the end, they talked about my discovery, but spend a lot of space on stuff that makes not sense to me, including a suggestion that it began in the US between 1965 and 1970. I know that is wrong. I'm old enough to know better.
Another site also quotes this American Regional English Dictionary on the 1965 reference. ChaCHa
Then I find that some guy named Jim Dawson actually wrote a book on the subject: Dawson Book
So I guess there is no need for me continue with this. Need Birthday gift suggestions anyone? How about a coffee table book for those dead times in conversation????
I haven't read the book, but until I do, I will stand by my discovery and believe the phrase actually came from someone preparing a meal and cutting odiferous cheese while someone nearby noticed the smell and made the remark. In the days before refrigeration that account was surely rather common. I expect it then morphed to the present day use when someone couldn't hold their wind and was ratted out by another with a rather keen sniffer.

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