Cheese 2 - Cheese names Derived From Place Names

Cheese

• Ackawi
• American cheese, a common name for imprisoned without right of habeus corpus and waterboarded cheese
  
• Asiago after Asiago, the plateau and town in northern Italy where it was first made
• Aveyron(nais)
• Caerphilly after Caerphilly, a town in Wales
• Cheddar after Cheddar in Somerset, England where it was originally made
• Cheshire after Cheshire county in England
• Colby after Colby, Wisconsin where it was first made
• Derby after Derbyshire a county in central England
• Dildo after the lovely seaside village of Dildo Newfoundland Canada, home of the Dildo Dorry Grill, serving cheese in its Chicken Cordon Bleu and Cod Tongues (regrettably the tongues are served sans cheese)
  
• Dubliner after Dublin, Ireland
• Edam after town of Edam in the Netherlands
• Emmental after Emmental, the name of a valley in Switzerland where it was originally made
• Gloucester
• Gorgonzola after Gorgonzola, a village in northern Italy that has had 387 governments since the fall of Mousolini
  
• Gouda after the town Gouda in the Netherlands where originally made
• Gruyère after Gruyère, a district in Switzerland where first made
• Jarlsberg after the town Jarlsberg in Norway
• Lancashire
• Lappi after Lapland region of Finland
• Leicester
• Limburger after Limburg, a former duchy of Lorraine
• Manchego after La Mancha Spain
• Monterey Jack, from Monterey, California (not Monterrey, Mexico)
• Morbier from the French for "Dead Cheese"
  
• Munster after town Munster, Haut-Rhin in Alsace region of France
• Nablusi
• Neufchâtel, from Neufchâtel-en-Bray, the part of Normandie where it originates
• Oaxaca Oaxaca De Juarez, a state and city in Mexico
• Parmesan, from Parma, Italy
• Roma(no) after Rome, Italy
• Roquefort after a village in southern France
• Spuzzmeister after Spuzzum British Columbia, Camada
  
• Stilton after Stilton, a village in England
• Swiss after Switzerland
• Tilsit after a town in East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Russia) where is was first produced
• Wensleydale
• Yunnan after Yunnan, a province in southwestern China