The Week contest: Cheese heist
This week's question: British police are hunting for a gang of crooks who stole 24 tons of artisanal cheddar — worth about $390,000 — from a high-end London cheese shop. If Hollywood were to make a crime caper about this fine cheese robbery, what title should it give the movie?
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THE WINNER: "Take the Monterey and Run"
Andrea Carla Michaels, San Francisco, California
SECOND PLACE: "Carlito's Whey"
Dave Grossman, Petaluma, California
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THIRD PLACE: "Lock, Stock and Two Smoked Goudas"
Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Manchego Candidate"
David Shepherd, Social Circle, Georgia
"The Roquefort Files"
Dave Wanucha, Mocksville, North Carolina
"Catch Brie If You Can"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Chevre Chase"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Michigan
"Curdmen of Alcatraz"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
"SwitchKraft"
Tim Mistele, Coral Gables, Florida
"Monterrey Hijack"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
"Midnight in the Garden of Gouda and Edam"
Patti Maxwell, Syracuse, New York
"Babybel Driver"
Michael Silvia, Barrington, Rhode Island
"Smoked Cheese and the Bandit"
Claire Williams, Louisville, Kentucky
"CSI: Wisconsin"
Carla Blizzard and Scott Weeks, Santa Monica, California
"From Wisconsin, With Love"
Paige Muendel, Morgantown, West Virginia
"Rennet-gades"
Peter Adelsberger, Suffield, Connecticut
"Man On a Wedge"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"The Manchego Candidate"
David Shepherd, Social Circle, Georgia
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