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the mild orange impostor named after monks who'd be appalled by its blandness
means A mild, pale, semi-soft cow's-milk cheese with an orange rind, an American-made cousin of a much sharper European original.
from Named for the town of Munster in the Alsace region of France, where monks made the original washed-rind, pungent Munster cheese — the name itself comes from the Latin monasterium, 'monastery.' The American 'muenster' borrowed the name (and the umlaut-flavored spelling, after German Münster) but dialed the funk down to near silence, producing a cheese related to its Alsatian namesake mostly in spirit.
- holy origin
- named after Alsatian monastery monks who aged the original
- name lie
- American muenster barely resembles its pungent French ancestor
- orange edge
- paprika or annatto dyes that signature rind, not age
- melt king
- smooth meltability makes it a grilled-cheese workhorse
- real reek
- true Munster cheese smells aggressively, almost criminally, of feet
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muenster cheese — semi-soft cheese from alsace region, france, with distinctive orange rind and pungent aroma