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the orange isn't the cheese — it's a vegetable dye marketers added to look richer.
means A firm, sharp cow's-milk cheese ranging from pale to bright orange — and, in slang, money.
from Named for the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England, where the cheese was traditionally aged in the cool, damp Cheddar Gorge caves. The process even gave us a verb: to 'cheddar' is to stack and turn slabs of curd to press out the whey. The 'money' sense is much newer American slang, the idea being that cheese is something good you want more of — a cousin to calling cash 'bread' or 'dough.'
- natural color
- Real cheddar ranges pale white to yellow
- the dye
- Annatto from achiote seeds makes it orange
- cheddaring
- A verb: stacking curds to drain whey
- slang origin
- Means money since at least the 1980s
- hometown
- Named for a gorge in Somerset, England
cheddar gorge — limestone gorge in somerset, england, 3 miles long, where cheddar cheese originated in the 12th century
cheddar cheese — hard cow's milk cheese from cheddar, somerset, england, aged in caves since the 1600s