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What do you call cheese that is not yours?
A sound-alike riddle. The answer is a real kind of cheese whose name happens to sound like a short sentence about ownership.
What do you call cheese that is not yours?
Hint: Say it quickly.
Reveal the answer
Nacho cheese
“Nacho cheese” sounds like “not your cheese”.
How to solve it (spoilers)
How to think about it
- Say “not your cheese” quickly and casually.
- Listen to what the first two words become: “not your” slides into “nacho”.
- Nacho cheese is a real thing on every stadium menu, the warm orange sauce poured over tortilla chips.
- Cheese that is not yours is nacho cheese.
Why “Nacho cheese” is the answer
“Nacho cheese” sounds almost exactly like “not your cheese”, so the name of the melted cheese sauce answers the question about ownership. The pun depends on saying the words aloud rather than reading them, which is why it falls flat in print and lands in conversation. You will hear it at ballparks and school cafeterias across the United States.
Common wrong answers
- Stolen cheese. Accurate but not a pun, and the riddle wants the sound-alike.
- Swiss cheese. Swiss cheese has holes, which is the basis of a different joke.
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