(edit title) Question About Cheddar Cheese? What is The U.S. Equivalent? Options

[countrysidedrive]

What can we say. 40 posts because us humans love our cheeses. Crazy for cheese I admit it.

[soultraveler3]

At the risk of sounding really, really sad, I will correct you both on your understanding. Cheddar isn't, strictly speaking, a type of cheese. It's a process used in ... (show full quote)

At the risk of sounding really, really sad, I will correct you both on your understanding. Cheddar isn't, strictly speaking, a type of cheese. It's a process used in the making of some cheeses.

So there is Cheddar cheese, which is any cheese made in Cheddar, and there is cheddar cheese which is any cheese using the cheddaring process. ... (hide full quote)

William, you are quite clearly, wrong.I give you the following link as proof, where you can see that Cheddar cheese is indeed a type of cheese which originated in...Cheddar, E ... (show full quote)

William, you are quite clearly, wrong.

I give you the following link as proof, where you can see that Cheddar cheese is indeed a type of cheese which originated in...Cheddar, England.

(Which is what those of us with brains have been saying all day on this post).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_cheese ... (hide full quote)

JulieLou40, needs to learn how to read before insulting others. He says specifically that it can be any cheese made in Cheddar OR any cheese that has used the "cheddaring" process.

If you really have the "brains" you claim to, you would've been able to wrap your mind around the concept that a word / name can have more than 1 meaning.

You've shown yourself to be not only ignorant, but rude and insulting as well...over CHEESE. You really must be superior! lol

[The Nine]

The third and last for this year was last weekend. There will not be another until the spring . You can check out when on www.corren.se. Mind you it is not cheap at 280kr/kilo

You are a total dipstick Rick. Alan Sugar set up Cheese R Us in 1970 as a cover for the CIA's attempts to infiltrate the Dutch Cheese Cartel run by Fredrik Reinfeld Or to give him is correct name Fredrik Bourbon-Blodfeld) head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. His cheese empire is now under investigation by the Milk Marketing Board and Gary Lineker... You are such an idiot!!!!

[DBW]

Genuine Cheddar Cheese is only made in a very small area in the West of England, but food processors around the world have copied the production method and now any cheese made by this system - called cheddaring - is promoted as Cheddar cheese. Even in the UK, the majority of cheese sold in the food stores under the name of cheddar is made in Ireland, other major brands are imported from New Zealand and Canada. One thing is certain, No cheddar cheese has any sort of dye in it, certainly not red.

My US niece hated English cheese when she visited us some time ago. She much preferred "American cheese", because it "had no taste" at all.

[Potrero]

So the other day, thinking of this very thread, I went out and bought a piece of mature English cheddar. I've had aged American cheddar before, but this was stuff was different, and fantastic! I can now see what you folks were going on about. Though I'd take either of those over the bland, pasty blocks of what that Arla calls cheddar.

As for American cheese, DBW, it has its place. It melts really well and so it's nice to use on burgers and or ham-and-egg breakfast sandwiches. (Such sandwiches are commonly served on "English muffins", which I gather don't even exist in England.) And finally about the color thing, some American cheddar is colored with annatto, and some is not. What's funny is that large grocery stores will stock both kinds, so customers can choose the color they prefer. I'm surprised they don't dye it green for St. Patrick's Day.

The individually wrapped American cheese slices, on the other hand, are basically edible rubber.

[Opalnera]

We buy some cheese called "Wästgöta Kloster". I like the cheese available in Sweden, I don't think cheddar is very good anyway.

[intrepidfox]

A 2 year old post but does anybody know where to buy Cathedral City Mature cheddar in the Göteborg area as i´ve tried COOP and ICA in my area without luck.

[Hisingen]

Having just switched the computer on, it has been amusing reading about the pro's and con's and if's and wherefore's about Cheddar cheese. I can remember buying some genuine Cheddar cheese on a visit to Cheddar, and bought some cyder to wash it down - a rather strong variety called Legbender ! ! Now that was some cyder. Oh yes, and the cheese was excellent - as one would expect of a genuine Cheddar Cheese.

But on the cheesey thing, how about Stilton Cheese? It was thought never to have been made in Stilton, but was sold there at one of the coaching inns - The Bell Inn - on the one time Great North Road, where passengers took refreshment during the changing of the horses. Apparently there was a cheese made locally which was sold, and went via the passengers both north and south. It proved to be a popular cheese, and the publican had to seek for more suppliers to meet the demand, and so 'Stilton Cheese' evolved, but was never 'invented' if that is what does to a cheese. Cheesemakers were found in Wymondham and Melton Mowbray, and now the Stilton is registered with EU, and can only be called Stilton if manufactured in three counties - Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
A friend of mine ran The Bell Inn for a few years after the war, reviving some, but not all, of the old customs. My home village, Alconbury, was just a few miles to the south, so I knew the village of Stilton well, and there is a pub there that is called 'The Stilton Cheese'. But the Bell Inn is the older of the two, with a gateway leading into the courtyard in true coach-house tradition. Stilton, today, is a much quieter village, since the Great North Road is now a multi-lane highway passing by outside the village.

Ah - progress

[intrepidfox]

I honestly found this really interesting, i never realised the history surrounding Stilton. Thanks.
But can anyone tell me where i can buy Cathedral cheddar in Sweden

[Bender B Rodriquez]

Have you tried the big ICA Maxi at Mölndalsvägen, or the COOP on Avenyn? There are also some cheese shops (e.g. Linnegatan, Saluhallen, etc) you might try, although they primarily specialize in smelly French cheeses The one at Linnegatan claims to carry 400 cheeses so they should have some proper cheddar too.

[Rick Methven]

I honestly found this really interesting, i never realised the history surrounding Stilton. Thanks.. But can anyone tell me where i can buy Cathedral cheddar in Sweden

I bought Cathedral extra mature cheddar yesterday in ICA Maxi 28.90 kr

[intrepidfox]

Thanks Rick. I´ll try the nearest which is in Torslanda tomorrow

[Hisingen]

I wonder if there is anyone who recalls the big cheese counter in the lower sales floor of NK in Gbg. I can't honestly remember if it was after the NK takeover or if it was when the store was still Ferdinand Lundqvist. But they used to have a wonderful selection of cheeses and it was possible always to 'taste before you buy'. Hanging behind the circular counter they used to have a big round Swiss Emmental cheese, too.
As to other cheeses by name, I bought some Leicester Red in Co-op Forum in Uddevalla not so long ago, but what I would love to get hold of is some Wensleydale and some Caerphilly. I definitely prefer them to Stilton, albeit my 'home' cheese. But then, very few of the genuine English/Welsh or even Scottish cheeses find their way to Sweden. Could it be that they do not appeal to Swedes - since some could never be sliced using the typical cheese slicers?
One thing is for sure - I will never ever go into a Danish cheese shop. I made that mistake once, years ago, but never again. The smell was - to put it mildly - overpowering.

[mrwhippysofticecream]

How much do you lot pay in Sweden for a pound of real cheddar from england.
And I've read somewhere on here that the average price of a steak is 31 quid.
Is that for an 8oz 12oz or 16oz

[FotoGuy]

I recommend City Gross, they have decent cheddar cheese, it's nothing like the orange/yellow American cheddar, but it's still pretty good. I use the 6 month (medium) as I find the 12 month to be too sharp. I forget the name of the brand but you can't miss it, just ask the staff, comes in two sizes, 1/3 wheel and full wheel.

Hope this helps!