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

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

Nope, annato is a coloring agent and Cheddar is a town. Okay, it didn't take much research. From Wikipedia:

Like many cheeses, the colour of Cheddar is often modified by the use of food colourings. In the United States, Annatto, extracted from the tropical achiote tree, is traditionally used to give Cheddar a deep orange colour. The origins of this practice have been long since forgotten, but the three leading theories appear to be:

=o= to allow the cheese to have a consistent colour from batch to batch
=o= to assist the purchaser in identifying the type of cheese when it is unlabelled
=o= to identify the cheese's region of origin.