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the king of cheeses, legally protected and absolutely banned from being made in its own namesake village.
means A rich, crumbly English blue cheese with a creamy interior and veins of blue mould, protected by law so that only cheese made in certain English counties may bear the name.
from Named after the village of Stilton in Cambridgeshire, where the cheese was famously sold to travellers at the Bell Inn along the Great North Road in the 18th century — though it was made in nearby Leicestershire and elsewhere, not in Stilton itself. The village gave the cheese its fame and its name; the Protected Designation of Origin granted centuries later then drew the boundaries so that, by a curious legal twist, true Stilton cannot be produced in Stilton at all.
- legal protection
- only three counties may legally make it
- namesake snub
- cannot be made in Stilton village
- blue veins
- injected steel needles let mold breathe in
- royal favorite
- served at Queen Victoria's table
- weight
- one wheel needs 78 pints of milk
stilton cheese — protected designation of origin cheese from leicestershire, derbyshire, and nottinghamshire, england since 1996
stilton town — village in cambridgeshire where the cheese was historically traded and sold from the 18th century onward