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Cheese Shop sketch vs Stilton

Cheese Shop sketch

Facts

Country
United Kingdom

The Cheese Shop sketch is a comedy piece from Monty Python, the British troupe, and it is not a cheese you can buy. A customer enters a shop billed as a fine cheese emporium and learns that no cheese is in stock. John Cleese plays the customer, and Michael Palin plays the shopkeeper, Henry Wensleydale. The humor comes from polite excuses that cover an empty counter. The piece first appeared in Monty Python's Flying Circus, and it later turned up on records and in stage shows.

Stilton, field guide plate
Stilton, photographed

Stilton

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-hard
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
United Kingdom
Place
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire
Status
PDO

Stilton is a blue cow's-milk cheese from England. The protected cheese is made only in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, or Nottinghamshire. It is not made in the village of Stilton.