Alternative astrochemistry

[Waterwolf]

Where does the idea that the moon is made of (green) cheese originate?

[answerbok]

as long ago as 1528 a rimester published these lines: Yf they saye the mone is belewe, We must believe that it is true. Then the next year "green cheese" entered the picture in the lines of another writer: "They woulde make men beleue ... that ye Moone is made of grene cheese." Apparently, then, there were two schools of thought back in the early sixteenth century--one maintaining that "ye Moone" was made of "grene" cheese, and the other stoutly affirming that it was "belewe."

[isobar]

The Moon is made of green cheese: A term from the sixteenth century. "Green" refers not to the color of the moon, but to new immature cheese. Round like the shape of the moon with a mottled surface and color similar to that of the moon.