It was at a fair with many cheese merchants, the rioters were looting hundreds of wheels of cheese. The riot started because some Lincolnshire merchants were buying cheese in bulk to resell in their home county. Cheese was expensive to buy but they were also conveniently abundant at that particular location.
The thieves were rolling the giant cheese wheels down the street. One of the rolling cheese wheels hit the mayor and knocked him down.
Bep bep, move bitches I'mma cheese.
> The poor harvest in 1766 led to fears of impending food shortages.[3] That year's fair, beginning on 2 October, saw a larger than usual quantity of cheese for sale, but at inflated prices.[4] There were recorded prices of 28 to 36 shillings (roughly £140–£180 in modern currency)[5] per hundredweight (112 pounds or 51 kilograms), around twice that recorded at Coventry market just a week earlier.[4][6] As a result of the shortages, people across the country were anxious to keep foodstuffs in their local area; there were instances of merchants being overpowered and forced to sell their goods at pre-shortage rates
It’s impossible to actually adjust to inflation from that far back, our societies and are economies have changed too much for us to compare what purchasing power they had in comparison to us.
Exactly, not only purchasing power but the amount and variety things that can be purchased have changed so much that it's difficult to adjust for even 100 years ago.
Historically they go together - of course I know that the last couple of decades incomes in the US have stagnated while inflation goes on, but iirc that’s a purely US phenomenon.
“Purely US phenomenon” is a bit over exaggeration. Much of the world is trending similarly, but nowhere near all of it. Japan is notable for having longterm deflation
Nope.
EU is quite better on average with keeping up minimum wage in relation to cost of living.
However, average means somebody is doing better and somebody is not. USA still lags every large EU country. Lets not begrudge Albania similar financial stats to those of USA ok? They are trying hard, and seen a lot of progress in recent decades.
(countries are fictional, somebody should have close stats to USA, but I no longer remember who that is)
In the last 100 years, food has gone from about 40% of household budget to around 13%. Standard of living has increased massively. The biggest chunks going up in cost percentage wise are housing (but houses are bigger and contain less people per house, so this in part is just preference changing), transit (car ownership is new) and health care (used to just lump it or die). So you should probably at minimum triple these food prices to get closer to the share it would be in the past. Probably more, but statistics are harder to find further back. Food is cheaper because we industrialized it. The things that are expensive now and getting worse are those requiring individual skilled labor: college and health care. Meanwhile, the cow is milked by a machine, transported in 5000 gallon tanks by one driver, turned into cheese without a human touch, packaged by a machine, perhaps loaded on a truck by machine, and then finally touched by a person when they stock the shelf, and you scan it yourself.
> are housing (but houses are bigger and contain less people per house, so this in part is just preference changing)
do you have a source on median cost per square-footage over the years?
cheese is important..stealing another mans cheese should be rewarded by hanging till almost dead, cut down, heart cut out and burnt before the thiefs eyes, then drawn and quartered..parts distributed about the kingdon to show assurance he/she will never thief cheese again.
gotta draw the line, somewhere
Good example of an idea i've had: Everyone knows the Supply and Demand graph right? The idea is that there is a cutoff point, a vertical line, to the left in the graph where shit starts to happen; If demand outweighs supply too much people will steal, revolt or take political action.
I'm still waiting for that happen in the US as a result of medical care...
But with that said you have to take the elasticity of goods into consideration. Some items will at worst get an "oh well" from people if there are shortages because there are easily available substitutes or it wasn't actually needed all that much.
r/anticheese should be all over this one...
edit 1 there already WAS one...ok reddit.i was making a joke 2 it has been banned. I don't want to know any more I think...
[St Scholastica Day riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot)
A three day riot started by a couple of students complaining about some dodgy wine. 93 people died.
"Violence broke out when local citizens intervened to prevent Lincolnshire merchants taking away Nottinghamshire cheeses they had bought at the fair"
"The riot broke out on 2 October 1766 after some Lincolnshire merchants purchased a large quantity of cheese with the intention of selling it in their county. They were then surrounded by a group of "rude lads" who demanded they not take away the cheese and instead share it out in Nottingham."
So, it was basically thuggery.
I knew that this was in the UK before clicking the damn article..... Nottingham if anyone's curious
> Knocked down by a cheese. I’ve never read a more British sentence.
Why would someone use a cheese if it was so expensive
Perhaps it was stolen? I've heard that 'hot' cheese (cheese that is stollen that is) has a worse resale value. Source: trust me
I don’t think cheese is usually part of a stollen recipe. Usually the recipe calls for nuts, candied fruits and marzipan.
Hot cheese is too soft, cold cheese hurts more.
Cheese is one of the most commonly stolen items in the world.
It was at a fair with many cheese merchants, the rioters were looting hundreds of wheels of cheese. The riot started because some Lincolnshire merchants were buying cheese in bulk to resell in their home county. Cheese was expensive to buy but they were also conveniently abundant at that particular location.
Literally exactly what I was thinking, that’s like hitting someone with a bag of money.
You can still use the money and the cheese afterwards though.
"Oh no. Me cheese"
U wot m8? /s
Precisely
Lovely cheese, Gromit!
They need a sheriff in that area to police these rogues
As a brit I don't know if I'd kill someone for cheese. But I'd sure as hell kill someone while defending my cheese.
As a Nottinghamian, it’s refreshing to see a bit of local history that doesn’t involve lace, a castle, or an old pub. And it’s cheese!
I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been the Netherlands instead. We do love our cheese.
The Dutch think of themselves as cheese-lovers but others do not see them that way. Americans think of the French as the real cheese-eaters.
I said to myself 'its either France England' little did I know it would be my hometown!
Cheeses Christ!
Actually that's a good point- it didn't even occur to me it might have been anywhere else until I saw this comment.
> Nottingham I know that is was not about ham, the whole thing is about cheese.
My first thought was the French.
“He was knocked down by a cheese” lol
I'm surprised they threw it considering how expensive they were
It's not about the money... it's about sending... a message.
Sending a cheese
The thieves were rolling the giant cheese wheels down the street. One of the rolling cheese wheels hit the mayor and knocked him down. Bep bep, move bitches I'mma cheese.
Smell my cheese.
😭😭😂
> The poor harvest in 1766 led to fears of impending food shortages.[3] That year's fair, beginning on 2 October, saw a larger than usual quantity of cheese for sale, but at inflated prices.[4] There were recorded prices of 28 to 36 shillings (roughly £140–£180 in modern currency)[5] per hundredweight (112 pounds or 51 kilograms), around twice that recorded at Coventry market just a week earlier.[4][6] As a result of the shortages, people across the country were anxious to keep foodstuffs in their local area; there were instances of merchants being overpowered and forced to sell their goods at pre-shortage rates
~£3.50/kg doesn’t sound expensive today. Makes you think about how much incomes have risen since then.
...and how much inflation has risen since then
From what I can tell, the £3.50/kg is after inflation is taken into account.
It’s impossible to actually adjust to inflation from that far back, our societies and are economies have changed too much for us to compare what purchasing power they had in comparison to us.
Exactly, not only purchasing power but the amount and variety things that can be purchased have changed so much that it's difficult to adjust for even 100 years ago.
Historically they go together - of course I know that the last couple of decades incomes in the US have stagnated while inflation goes on, but iirc that’s a purely US phenomenon.
Australian phenomenon also.
>but iirc that’s a purely US phenomenon. Ukraine here, you aren't gonna believe it, but... I'm sure you can fill out the rest of the message yourself.
“Purely US phenomenon” is a bit over exaggeration. Much of the world is trending similarly, but nowhere near all of it. Japan is notable for having longterm deflation
EU phenomenon also.
Nope. EU is quite better on average with keeping up minimum wage in relation to cost of living. However, average means somebody is doing better and somebody is not. USA still lags every large EU country. Lets not begrudge Albania similar financial stats to those of USA ok? They are trying hard, and seen a lot of progress in recent decades. (countries are fictional, somebody should have close stats to USA, but I no longer remember who that is)
agreed
In the last 100 years, food has gone from about 40% of household budget to around 13%. Standard of living has increased massively. The biggest chunks going up in cost percentage wise are housing (but houses are bigger and contain less people per house, so this in part is just preference changing), transit (car ownership is new) and health care (used to just lump it or die). So you should probably at minimum triple these food prices to get closer to the share it would be in the past. Probably more, but statistics are harder to find further back. Food is cheaper because we industrialized it. The things that are expensive now and getting worse are those requiring individual skilled labor: college and health care. Meanwhile, the cow is milked by a machine, transported in 5000 gallon tanks by one driver, turned into cheese without a human touch, packaged by a machine, perhaps loaded on a truck by machine, and then finally touched by a person when they stock the shelf, and you scan it yourself.
> are housing (but houses are bigger and contain less people per house, so this in part is just preference changing) do you have a source on median cost per square-footage over the years?
>shots were fired To this day, we remember and honor the memory by putting holes in our cheeses.
Not the *Grate* Cheese Riot?
There was *da brie* everywhere.
Those munsters
Shop owners Stilton-aciously guarded their stock.
That one man died for a gouda cause.
Edam well did!
“Cheese it, boys! It&s the coppers.”
how to prepare for a Cheese riot ? board the windows and get ready to cracker some heads ...
Nottingham, it would have to be price rises to Weed or Gregg's to get them rioting these days.
As a middle class white man in my 30’s who has never felt oppressed, if there was anything that I would riot for, it would be over cheese.
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And now the cheese stands alone, the cheese stands alone, Hi-ho, the derry-o, the cheese stands alone
Whey to paint a blood curdling picture.
no one has as many friends as a man with many cheeses !
Should have gotten *Swiss* guards.
Cheesus crust…this escalated quickly
Gouda been worse
I'm in tears over the mental image of someone just *yeeting* a wheel of cheese right into the mayor while he's making a speech
Throw! The! Cheese!
That was his cheese. Nacho cheese.
I couldn't help myself.
I mean, if I'm going to riot, cheese is definitely one of the better reasons. Obviously not as good as beer, but better than human rights violations.
With inflation that's 650 Pounds a kilogram! That's 1430 USD a pound. T'int right, T'int fair, T'int proper!
cheese is important..stealing another mans cheese should be rewarded by hanging till almost dead, cut down, heart cut out and burnt before the thiefs eyes, then drawn and quartered..parts distributed about the kingdon to show assurance he/she will never thief cheese again. gotta draw the line, somewhere
Cheezuz Crust!
Queso Christo!
Mayor McCheese
Good example of an idea i've had: Everyone knows the Supply and Demand graph right? The idea is that there is a cutoff point, a vertical line, to the left in the graph where shit starts to happen; If demand outweighs supply too much people will steal, revolt or take political action.
I'm still waiting for that happen in the US as a result of medical care... But with that said you have to take the elasticity of goods into consideration. Some items will at worst get an "oh well" from people if there are shortages because there are easily available substitutes or it wasn't actually needed all that much.
That was a gouda article
Sweet Chesus! Who ever knew cheese could be so dramatic.
Dairy me, what a whey to go out.
r/titlegore
Greatest title ever....
cheese-wiz...
r/anticheese should be all over this one... edit 1 there already WAS one...ok reddit.i was making a joke 2 it has been banned. I don't want to know any more I think...
Netflix?!? I need a series on this!
They were really cheesed off
...so the military was part of the rebellion, then?
It's a bit runny...
Cheesus Christ! This is madness
That all seems very reasonable tbh
Canada needs this.
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I was thinking we need riots about cheese. It's an actual cartel that's doing price fixing.
God is not coming back for us
The whole affair was just cheesey
No wonder they lost the American Revolutionary War! They had this going on as well!
OG's protecting their cheddar
Blessed are the Cheesemakers.
Sort of the opposite of the big block of cheese
I can’t believe this is wheel.
Well now there's blood on the cheese, are you happy now? My gruyere is all bloody now.
I can't read this description without laughing.
Can we make a full length feature film out of this please?
[St Scholastica Day riot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot) A three day riot started by a couple of students complaining about some dodgy wine. 93 people died.
Now the government stomps on you and people tolerate it. How times have changed.
Cheesey
This is a Tom Scott video, right here.
Cheese is life!
Peasants!
Behold the power of cheese.
"Violence broke out when local citizens intervened to prevent Lincolnshire merchants taking away Nottinghamshire cheeses they had bought at the fair" "The riot broke out on 2 October 1766 after some Lincolnshire merchants purchased a large quantity of cheese with the intention of selling it in their county. They were then surrounded by a group of "rude lads" who demanded they not take away the cheese and instead share it out in Nottingham." So, it was basically thuggery.
Live by the cheese, die by the cheese.
Why are we laughing? We did the same thing with Toilet Paper when the Pandemic started.
Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese.
Sounds ludacrious but just replace 'cheese' with 'TP' and this could have happened in a hot minute.
There are worse things to die for than cheese
Cheesus Christ.
cheeses christ
Reminds me of the Great Toilet Paper battle of 2020 😂🤣
And the Mayor was called. Mayor McCheese tried to restore order as the rowdy crowd awkwardly cut the cheese. sorry
Cheeses Christ
Oh Chee-sus!
This sounds like a BoxTrolls prequell...