Cheddar vs Government cheese
Cheddar
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Place
- Cheddar, Somerset
Cheddar is a pressed cow's-milk cheese from Somerset, in the west of England. The name comes from the village of Cheddar and from Cheddar Gorge, but most cheddar eaten today is made far from that village.
Government cheese
Facts
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Processed
- Rind
- No rind
- Country
- United States
Government cheese is a commodity cheese from the United States, made and held under federal dairy programs rather than sold as a farmhouse wheel. It is a pasteurized process cheese in the American style, formed into large unsliced blocks with plain labels. The point was to turn surplus milk into a food that could be stored and then given out. It slices and melts, which is what those programs needed. It is not a named regional cheese, and it has no rind.