Etymology

Shropshire Blue

Today it means: A kind of blue cheese made from cow's milk and coloured with annatto. Full definition →

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The story

The cheese was developed in Inverness, Scotland, and was given the name of Shropshire only for marketing purposes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.