3. How big was the cheese? 22,000 pounds. See here: http://www.urbanmarket.com/all-about-perth/mammoth.html …
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4. Many Canadian poets celebrated that giant cheese.
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5. From James McIntyre's "Ode on the Ma/mmoth Cheese": We have seen thee, Queen of Cheese, Lying quietly at your ease..."
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6. "Gently fanned by evening breeze;/ Thy fair form no flies dare seize./ All gaily dressed, soon you'll go/ To the provincial show..."
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7. "To be admired by many a beau/ In the city of Toronto."
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8. That's not a good rhyme. But it is hard to find a good rhyme for "Toronto."
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9. Mammoth cheese's connection to CanLit is deep: one of Alice Munro's collateral ancestors built the carriage that transported the cheese
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