The importance of orange cheddar

[pantryslut]

Among many other yummy things, we got a couple of apples in the box
yesterday. The cold weather has me thinking: apples and cheddar.

Red and yellow striped peel, white flesh...

...there is no way I can eat a white cheddar with this. It's just wrong.

And me with a block of delicious white cheddar (yes, I broke down) in my
fridge. It will have to go to something else, sorry.

Sigh. Aesthetics.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

In the US, cheddar cheese is often dyed with annatto, which makes it quite orange. Cheddar that isn't dyed like this is "white cheddar." This orange cheddar is what I grew up with, considering Wisconsin seems to be the center of this practice.

White cheddar isn't always white. Often it's some shade of pale straw yellow, probably similar to what you're familiar with. The white cheddar in my fridge, though, is pretty darn pale.

[n-elisbeth.livejournal.com]

I grew up with white cheddar which seems to be a very east coast/New York/Vermont thing so, back in the day when I could actually eat cheese, I always perfered a really sharp white cheddar.