"Cheese and rice"?

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 2:

This is a less offensive way of saying Jesus Christ per the urban dictionary.

Solution 3:

One of the DVD extras for the 2007 film Hot Fuzz is a "contractual airline version" where all swearwords have been replaced with clean euphemisms. It includes replacing "Jesus Christ!" with "Cheese and rice!", such as in:

"Cheese and rice, Mother Hubbard!

The very first definition in Urban Dictionary shows this had been done before:

1. cheese and rice
This is a less offensive way of saying "Jesus Christ"

It originated with the [1998] movie 'The Faculty'. In the real version, one of the characters exclaimed "Jesus Christ!" but in the edited TV version, they had it changed to "Cheese and rice!"

Guy #1: Aliens landed on Earth!
Guy #2: Cheese and rice!
by crowdish Nov 15, 2003