Cheddar Quotes

“One might forget so many exotic cheeses, he thought, but the memory of cheddar always remained. "Should one be embarrassed by choosing cheddar every time?" he asked. Matthew laughed. "There's no need to apologize for simple things." "But is cheddar simple?" Domenica enquired. "Just because there's a lot of it, does that make it simple?”
― Alexander McCall Smith

“Woman, did you just give twelve-year-old cheddar to the dog?"
"Yep. She has a very refined cheese palate."
"Good to know."
I cut off a slice for myself, savoring the sharpness and the little salty crystals that pop on my tongue before the cheese melts into savory creaminess.”
― Stacey Ballis, How to Change a Life

“Ray picked up a slice of summer sausage and chewed, taking a deep breath when some heat kicked in.
"Watch out for that one. It's chili-spiked. Eat some cheese," Rick said.
Ray broke off a hunk of crumbling aged cheddar that had come from a nearby dairy. When he bit into it, tiny crystals popped on his tongue.
"Five years?" he guessed.
"Six."
"It's good." The cheese coated his tongue and eased the worst of the heat.”
― Amy E. Reichert, The Kindred Spirits Supper Club

“English cheeses are the finest in the world, don't you think? I don't know why anyone eats foreign cheese. Why on earth would you want a flaccid Camembert when you can have a fine, flinty farmhouse Cheddar? Most foreign cheese isn't fit to bait a mousetrap. Much of it is adulterated, you know."
Stella was partial to a well-aged Camembert, a Comté and a Cantal. The fact that one could buy Continental cheeses had been one of the pleasures of living in London, and while she'd been in Paris she'd practically lived on the stuff.”
― Caroline Scott, Good Taste

“The free cheese in a mousetrap is only for the mouse.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I like a good aged cheddar as much as anyone,” Gable said. “But the moon is over four billion years old. That might be too aged even for me.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye