"Reid©" > wrote in message
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> Has anyone heard of a food item, probably cheese, called
> "Chester"? (not Cheshire).
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This from "The Cheese Book" by Marquis and Haskell:

"From time to time the French have made a number of observations about
Cheshire. Victor Meusy, for example, writes irreverently:

Dans le Chester sec et rose
A longues dents, l'Anglais mord

(Into Chester dry and pink
The long teeth of the English sink)

He calls Cheshire "Chester" as do the rest of his countrymen. Englishmen
rarely complain about this , doubtless because they realise how
extraordinary it is for the French to recognise the existence of any British
cheese."