Cheshire cheese

Cheshire cheese (countable and uncountable, plural Cheshire cheeses)

1. A dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire.
   • 1711, Sir Richard Steele; Joseph Addison, The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.‎, volume 4, John Nutt:

     Would not he believe that he had the same Antipathy to a Candied Orange, or a Piece of Puff-Past, as some have to a Cheshire Cheese, or a Breast of Mutton?

   • 1901 February 16, “Liability of railway companies under special conditions attaching to carriage of goods at reduced rates”, in The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal‎, volume 35, J. Falconer, page 80:

     Cheshire cheeses, on account of their great size, are generally packed flat, and in a single tier only.

   • 1966, Stella Davies, Living Through the Industrial Revolution‎, published 2013:

     Cheshire cheese had been sent to London from as early as the sixteenth century.