Most Popular Cheese In Europe

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  1. Stilton is a god tier cheese, good to see it here. I think the maker could find better ones for that bit of southwestern Ireland than a local manufacturer of Cheddar though? Surely there is a more local option?

    Fun fact – Stilton made in Stilton can’t be called Stilton. Stilton is in Cambridgeshire but for Stilton cheese to be called that it has to be from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, or Leicester. It got the name because Stilton was a coaching halt on the road from London to Edinburgh which sold the cheese made by producers in those counties.

  2. This is a map of local cheeses, not a map of the most popular cheeses. I can guarantee you that despite Handkäs being a local delicassy here in Hesse, other cheese types like Gouda, Emmentaler and Maasdammer are still eaten a lot more.

  3. It’s definitely not Liliputas in Lithuania, has to be ‘yellow’ cheese or whatever type Rokiškio cheese counts as.

  4. Shoutout to reindeer kahvijuusto that probably would be included if this map hadn’t cut off half of the Nordic countries for some reason.

  5. I’m sure there are cheese zealots out there who will rail against this. But we should celebrate all these cheeses, because every single one of them are fucking delicious.

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