September 17, 2005
Socks
Incidental Intelligence, British variety:
Small producers often invent weird names for their foods as a way to distinguish them. There’s now a cheese called “Stinking Bishop” made in Dymock, on the Gloucestershire-Herefordshire border, UK. Its name comes from a variety of pear cider whose alcoholic product is used to wash the curds and give the cheese a unique flavor.
One writer says that the cheese has a “sticky yellow-orange rind and smells of old socks.” I wonder if they’re purple?
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