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Default Yellow vs white cheddar?

Rhonda Anderson wrote:

> zxcvbob > wrote in
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>>Yes. Just tradition. It covers up the seasonal variability in color,
>>and now people have come to expect it as the "normal" color for
>>cheddar and colby cheese.

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> I was at the dairy section of the supermarket I use one day, looking for
> cheese, and there were some American women (at least, they sounded
> American) looking at the various cheeses, and expressing astonishment that
> there wasn't any yellow cheese <g>. Is it only in the US that this occurs,
> or is it in Canada also? Any other countries? The only cheese of that sort
> of colour that I recall seeing here is Double Gloucester.
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Yes, Canada as well.