A new girl started at the office, and she's quite a peculiar character. She moved here from Alabama and is definitely the excitable type. Every office has one I guess.
One thing she says every now and then is cheese and rice. Like, I'll ask her a question about something, and she'll reply, "Oh, cheese and rice, I don't know!"
A quick Google search turned up nothing but casserole recipes. Does "cheese and rice" mean anything? Is this something I just attribute to her strange perkiness, or is this just a Southern thing?
Best Answer
I've never heard this phrase before, and I don't know if it's prevalent in Alabama. However, I suspect that it's a taboo deformation of Jesus Christ, albeit a more colorful and idiosyncratic one than the most common variants.