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Most Popular Types of Cheese

Name the most popular types of cheese, according to # of Google search results.
# = Thousands of google results
Doesn't include "cheese products" such as American cheese
Doesn't include general terms, like string cheese or blue cheese
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First submittedDecember 12, 2013
Times taken33,482
Average score36.0%
Rating3.65
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#
Origin
Cheese
8,220
England
Cream
2,810
England
Cheddar
2,660
Italy
Parmesan
2,110
Unknown
Cottage
1,700
United States
Swiss
1,700
United States
Pepper Jack
1,500
Italy
Romano
1,490
Italy
Mozzarella
1,420
Greece
Feta
1,380
France
Brie
1,320
Italy
Asiago
1,250
Switzerland
Gruyère
1,240
Netherlands
Gouda
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Origin
Cheese
1,230
Italy
Mascarpone
1,140
Italy
Gorgonzola
718
Spain
Manchego
693
Italy
Ricotta
575
United States
Monterey Jack
557
United States
Colby
458
England
Stilton
431
France
Camembert
400
Italy
Provolone
387
France
Roquefort
358
France
Muenster
324
Denmark
Havarti
dwo
+1
Level 93
Dec 13, 2013
Question: if American cheese isn't cheese, is whisky just processed alcohol product?
maxd98
+1
Level 40
Jan 9, 2014
yes
AllenY
+4
Level 69
Apr 14, 2015
The reason it's not included is "Because its manufacturing process differs from "unprocessed"/raw/natural cheeses,[1] American cheese can not be legally sold under the name (authentic) "cheese" in the US."
ander217
+3
Level 75
Aug 13, 2015
American cheese is usually made of at least two cheeses, - usually cheddar and colby, - blended together with emulsifiers and/or additives, and by law it must be pasteurized. The type and amount of additives can vary widely from brand to brand. Under FDA regs, Pasteurized Process Cheese is made of 100% cheese. Pasteurized Process Cheese Food contains at least 51% cheese. Pasteurized Process Cheese Product contains less than 51% cheese. So when buying American cheese you might get anything from a fairly high quality cheese that melts beautifully, to a can of Easy Cheese.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 67
Apr 25, 2019
A grilled cheese sandwich contains cheese aswell, yet a sandwich isnt considered cheese
maxd98
+2
Level 40
Dec 14, 2013
You actually did it!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 82
Dec 15, 2013
You finally made the cheese quiz. But it doesn't have American cheese, bleu cheese, or nacho cheese? My knowledge of cheese is not adequate to take this quiz I guess.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Dec 15, 2013
I got pepperjack.. but.. how is that not a cheese product? I don't get it. Will have to read up on my cheeses I guess..
kalbahamut
+4
Level 82
Dec 15, 2013
and "cream cheese" and "cottage cheese" aren't "general terms," while bleu cheese is? Isn't bleu cheese a specific type of cheese? Is cottage cheese even cheese? I thought it was just badly curdled milk and the only people who ate it were diehard Alien Nation fans.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Dec 15, 2013
not trying to bust your chops just genuinely confused as to what these distinctions mean
JenkinsEar
+5
Level 89
Jan 29, 2014
Bleu cheese is a class of cheese within which stilton and roquefort are specific types. Cottage cheese (although gross) is a really simple type of unaged cheese- perhaps the world's oldest. I don't think there are specific types of it or cream cheese. As for American cheese, the fancy, Boar's Head types are really just mild cheddars, and the others are a super-processed product that is mostly fresh milk or vegetable oil mixed with cheese enzymes to give it flavor.

Upon looking back at this comment, I understand why my cholesterol is high.

kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Jan 30, 2014
Thanks that clears up a few things.
plattitude
+1
Level 92
Feb 24, 2014
Why so much hate for cottage cheese? It's an excellent snack with pineapple or cucumbers. (But not pineapple and cucumbers, that doesn't work well at all.) My brother also swears by it on peanut butter and onion sandwiches. But he also ruins that with mustard, so there's a large grain of salt there...
beetboy12
+1
Level 37
Aug 5, 2014
I LOVE cottage cheese. It's the original greek yogurt.
plattitude
+1
Level 92
Sep 3, 2015
BigCheesy, don't knock it til you've tried it. Especially with a nice crunchy peanut butter, and sliced Walla Walla sweet onions... heaven in a lunchbox right there.
ander217
+3
Level 75
Feb 27, 2017
I don't think pepper jack belongs on this list as a separate type. It's just Monterey jack cheese with peppers mixed in. It is like including strawberry cream cheese as a separate type.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 84
May 10, 2017
Add a dollop of Russian (or even French) dressing to some cottage cheese.....yum!
bebn123
+1
Level 59
Jan 29, 2014
Cool quiz, but would you please be a little more lenient on spellings for gouda?
TinklePork
+5
Level 62
Apr 21, 2017
It's only a 5 letter word
HighFidelity
+2
Level 57
Jan 29, 2014
I got everything except cheddar. There's not much call for cheddar in these parts.
postwaste
+5
Level 85
Jan 29, 2014
It's the single most popular cheese in the world!
Freestatebear
+1
Level 85
Mar 4, 2015
Yes! This quiz would be incomplete without a Python comment!
smartcookie17
+1
Level 45
Jun 20, 2014
IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Kayeejo
+2
Level 84
Feb 20, 2019
What about Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
OneMoreDown
+2
Level 49
Jan 29, 2014
No whiz? Uncultured heathens!
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
Feb 1, 2014
Do you have any cheese at all?
tschutzer
+1
Level 91
Apr 21, 2014
Of course we do, it's a cheese shop, isn't it?
Cameroii
+1
Level 44
Feb 3, 2014
Can you accept more answers for Camembert? I kept guessing things like "Camonbear," "Canombert," Canonber" and "Camomber!"
ChaosQuizzer
+1
Level 22
Jun 9, 2016
+1
plattitude
+1
Level 92
Feb 24, 2014
I will admit to knowing roquefort primarily from the Sutherland/Platt/Sheen/Curry version of 3 Musketeers.
EsaKivi
+1
Level 93
Jan 1, 2015
Same here!
Godfish23
+4
Level 66
Feb 26, 2015
EDAM, you forgot the cheese made backwards.
ChaosQuizzer
+1
Level 22
Jun 9, 2016
So eseehc should be an answer?
QuizWol
+5
Level 59
Sep 15, 2015
Wensleydale and Stinking Bishop!

Then it would be a cracking quiz.

brandybuck96
+1
Level 83
Nov 14, 2015
Like!!
Jags
+1
Level 4
Dec 4, 2015
Why would you make a quiz about cheese????????????? Like OMG!!!!!
Elan
+4
Level 65
Jan 21, 2016
I dismissed writing cream cheese or cottage cheese because I assumed they were in the same boat as blue cheese and cottage cheese.
Malbaby
+1
Level 71
Jan 31, 2016
The best English Cheese by far is Lancashire Cheese, it's white in colour, crumbly and has a nice bite...... yum
lvtharrison
+1
Level 81
Jul 26, 2016
Upset I didn't get Stilton. I live 5 miles away.
Yamaneko
+1
Level 73
Feb 9, 2017
No need for an "e" in Munster, it's not related to the German city of Münster, but to an Alsacian city which doesn't have an umlaut. By the way, I'm really surprised to find this delicious cheese in this quiz, because it's really foul smelling, even by French standards. Fantastic when old and runny, with cumin seeds.
leviOsa
+1
Level 37
Apr 14, 2018
But that's the name of the cheese...
ander217
+2
Level 75
Feb 27, 2017
I was surprised not to see goat cheese or chevre on the list, as well as jarlsberg.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
Level 84
May 10, 2017
Goat cheese....blechhht! Spit it into the shrubs while my girlfriend distracted my prospective father-in-law after he insisted I try some. Thanks, Randi! :-)
APHill
+2
Level 75
Jul 24, 2017
I believe that goat cheese is a rather broad term (akin to cow cheese) - you can make all sorts of different varieties out of goat milk.
DewgongFTW
+2
Level 25
Jul 6, 2017
Wait..... Swiss Chesse came from AMERICA?
DieHardFoodie
+3
Level 32
Feb 20, 2019
u mean emmental from Switzerland?
blizzrd33
+2
Level 79
Nov 5, 2019
The quiz is wrong.
benzeller
+1
Level 64
Aug 24, 2017
Argh! I missed Monterey Jack because I thought it was spelled "Monterrey," like the city in Mexico. Turns out it's actually named after Monterey, California. The more you know
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 65
Aug 24, 2017
Because people show their affection towards cheese by typing its name onto a website.
naughtynick
+1
Level 34
Dec 31, 2017
Swiss cheese is from America ! Then cuckoo clocks must come from the Cook islands.
Ourania
+2
Level 48
Jan 26, 2018
Growing in popularity : HALLOUMI cheese (Cyprus) :)
Shade9099
+1
Level 67
Jan 31, 2018
Umm ... that's great ...

Why isn't it on the list?

TheCrusher
+1
Level 72
Jul 30, 2018
Damn. Wrote Monterrey with two Rs. Any chance you can accept that? After all, you accept Munster without the E...
IvanAndonov
+1
Level 65
Jul 31, 2018
Nice quiz, nice cheese!
dsaved
+3
Level 67
Feb 20, 2019
Hi, I would say that "parmigiano" should be accepted for parmisan, since it's its proper name. Also, I don't know what "romano" means, I'm Italian, and Roman, and I've never heard of it. Maybe you're referring to pecorino romano?
DieHardFoodie
+2
Level 32
Feb 20, 2019
yes, I wrote pecorino and romano popped up
DieHardFoodie
+3
Level 32
Feb 20, 2019
Emmental cheese
blizzrd33
+1
Level 79
Nov 5, 2019
Apparently not accepted, yet this is a quiz about cheese!
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Feb 20, 2019
Best cheese not on the list that is very difficult to find outside of the Middle East is halloumi cheese. I love making salads with that stuff but it's expensive in the US.
MayaB
+3
Level 73
Jun 27, 2019
I've seen halloumi cheese in a lot of supermarkets in Germany. Last time I checked we were not in the Middle East.
overtired
+2
Level 84
Aug 4, 2019
It's not difficult to find in the UK either. A pretty standard cheese in supermarkets. And yep, it's great :)
kalbahamut
+1
Level 82
Aug 4, 2019
It's starting to gain popularity in the UK and Germany I think in large part due to immigration from Turkey and around the Middle East.

I just saw it offered as part of a salad in an American restaurant for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

PrettyTiedUp
+2
Level 68
Oct 15, 2020
Halloumi is lovely although very salty. The stuff sold in Turkey seems to be much saltier than that which is sold in the UK
EcceHomo
+1
Level 78
Dec 20, 2023
It's a very popular barbecue food - grilled Halloumi.
bridog8456
+1
Level 47
Apr 25, 2019
I know its not the right spelling but I think Monterrey jack should be accepted. I thought there were 2 Rs, not 1.
amard14
+1
Level 64
Aug 4, 2019
Jarlsberg from Norway returns 1.6 million results so it should be pretty high on this list
zaba2048
+1
Level 72
Apr 12, 2020
By the looks of things, Swiss cheese is effectively the same as Emmental, so could this be accepted?
LuckyLuc
+1
Level 65
Jun 15, 2020
Ever tried "Comte cheese" request? or "emmental"?

We are not using the same Google : mine would never return "Cream" as a cheese!

Please also note that the American "Muenster" is an imitation of the French "Münster" (source: https://www.cheese.com/muenster/) but not the same cheese.

Jango
+1
Level 64
Oct 12, 2021
Cream cheese? Cottage cheese? These are cheese products, not types of cheese
Andrew169
+1
Level 73
Feb 15, 2023
I have eaten almost all of these cheese types, but I couldn't think of them all. I scored 13/25, kind of disappointing. Thanks for the quiz!
Pearl2270
+1
Level 79
Aug 31, 2023
Of all the ridiculous spellings accepted on this site you really couldn't accept "Monterrey" cheese? Really?
EcceHomo
+1
Level 78
Dec 20, 2023
I also fell down on that misspelling. I assumed it was named after/for the Mexican city, when in fact it is a place in California, presumably a copy of the Mexican name, only spelled in a more American way.
tizzlizz
+1
Level 56
Mar 28, 2024
I think the quiz is a inconsistent with authentic cheese names and 'popular' or 'marketed' names. Emmental is the proper 'cheese' name for the 'marketed' name of swiss cheese. And pepper jack is a 'marketed' name for a 'flavored' Monterey. Maybe country-specific cheese quizzes for purists.

https://www.en-vols.com/en/taste/gastronomy/best-cheeses-world/#:~:text=What%20are%20the%20best%20cheeses,quesillo)%20in%20the%20top%20five.

Or follow the World Cheese Awards https://youtu.be/dJq3xC61pS4

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