Unofficial cheese rolling race held in Gloucestershire

[Dave Monroe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/10199238.stm

Octuple Gloucester

167; big cheese; [...] Pynchon is repeating a common fallacy that
Double and Single Gloucester refer to the size of the cheese. In fact
they refer to chese made from double or single milk (whole or
skimmed).

http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=O