Cheddar Gorge: A Book of English Cheeses

I can find no mention of Cheddar cheese in my Dictionary of Quotations. Shakespeare mentions Banbury cheese. Bardolph calls Slender a Banbury cheese in allusion to the thin carcase of Slender. Nobody could indict the best Cheddar as being thin; it is agreeably full-bodied, plump as a well-nourished dairymaid. Bad Cheddar is soapy, villainously so. The noble cheese that was accorded first prize in our Pump Room had the texture of the best Gruyère. A kinsman of mine, now in his eightieth year, eats Cheddar cheese after luncheon and dinner nearly every day of the year. I have not asked him whether he attributes his robust health to this constant absorption of Cheddar or to the glass of vintage port which he sips with it. Heavenly twins they are! God’s Good Creatures.