"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2017-09-03, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
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>> yellow cheese or orange cheese think it is better than the other way
>> because they were raised on it.
>
> As I stated in an earlier post, CA markets only sold "yellow"
> cheese/butter, fer decades.
>
> I never even knew white cheddar existed until I was in my early 20s
> (in da 70s) and took a trip back East. I didn't run across white
> cheddar, again, until one local CA sprmkt chain sold 5 yr old Cabot
> Cheddar around the Xmas holidays (80s). It was white and the best
> cheddar I've ever had. Now, white cheddar is quite common, here in

I used to have a book that was all about cheese. Published perhaps in the
1960's. Said cheese on the east was white and devoid of annatto. Cheese in
the west was more of a yellow due to annatto, and in the south, it was more
orange. Things have changed since then.