Hutch with a variety of cheese.
Cheese is solid food made by coagulating the milk from an animal such as a cow, goat, sheep, water buffalo, deer, or camel. Cheese, often enjoyed with crackers, plays an integral role in the Wallace & Gromit series. It is Wallace's favourite food (especially Wensleydale), and he is something of a connoisseur of the dairy dish. He can be seen reading Cheese Holidays and Cheese Monthly in A Grand Day Out. He likes to watch The Cheese Files in Cracking Contraptions "The Tellyscope" and live churning from Wensleydale in A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman, and also tunes into CNN (Cheese Network News) in Anoraknophobia. He also makes his own through a ferment your own cheese kit in Crackers in Space. It even influences his decision to go somewhere cheese-related in A Grand Day Out (considering Lancashire, Cheddar, Wensleydale, Philadelphia and Tesco's before landing on The Moon), and gives him dietary struggles in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, whilst also reviving him through the usage of Stinking Bishop like smelling salts. Additionally, an excess amount caused him to have trouble falling asleep in the Cracking Contraptions "The Snoozatron" short film.
Hutch, a rabbit clone of Wallace that was created due to an accident with the Mind-o-Matic, is also a lover of cheese instead of vegetables like other rabbits, eating it throughout the film. Gromit is also shown to have a familiarity with cheese in A Grand Day Out, albeit not for Stinking Archbishop, as seen in the Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention episode "Come to Your Senses". He is seen consuming Wensleydale in both Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper and The Curse of the Ramsbottoms. Shaun eats Wallace's cheese throughout A Close Shave and Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13", much to the latter's annoyance. Wendolene, meanwhile, openly admits she can't stand the food as it brings her out in a rash.
Wallace has not been depicted consuming cheese since The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, possibly due to him ultimately following Gromit's diet plan. However, his affinity for the dairy product has not wavered, as he still dreams of cheese in A Matter of Loaf and Death, and the password on his computer in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is "CHEESE", in which he also has a folder entitled "Cheese Pics".
List of cheeses in Wallace & Gromit[]
Types of cheese[]
- Cheddar (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper, Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Wensleydale (A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave, A Close Shave audiobook, TV Licensing Wallace & Gromit advert, Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper, The Curse of the Ramsbottoms, Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Anoraknophobia, Jacob's "Cracking", Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Wensleydale Lovers Society", Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees)
- Stilton (A Grand Day Out, Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper, Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Camembert (A Grand Day Out, Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Gorgonzola (The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave audiobook, Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees)
- Cheshire (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Blue Cheshire (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Gouda (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Waiting for Gouda")
- Parmesan (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Caerphilly (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Brie (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Brie Encounter")
- Edam (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13"; Giant Edam and smaller edam, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "East of Edam")
- Danablu (called "Danish Blue") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Single Gloucester (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Double Gloucester (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Ricotta (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Mozzarella (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Red Leicester (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "The Hunt for Red Leicester", Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures Episode 1: Fright of the Bumblebees)
- Emmental (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Feta (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Crowdie (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Liederkranz (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cashel Blue (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Remoudou (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Boursin (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Roquefort (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Brighton Roquefort")
- Manchego (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Gruyère (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Brunost (called "Mesost") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Dorset Blue Vinney (called "Blue Vinny") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Friesian Clove (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Baraka (horseshoe-shaped) (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Gaperon (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cornish Yarg (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Bruder Basil (called "Brother Basil"; including a special version flavoured with chopped ham) (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Neufchâtel (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Lymeswold (discontinued) (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Kefalotyri (called "Kefalotiri") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Quark (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Leyden (called "Leiden") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Maroilles (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Gamalost (called "Gammelost") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Dunlop (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Époisses (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Brillat-Savarin (called "Brillat Savarin") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Brick (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Bagozzo (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Derby (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Stinking Bishop (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention "Come to Your Senses")
Fictional types of cheese[]
- Moon cheese (A Grand Day Out; called "lunar cheese" in audiobook, The Wrong Trousers; "Moon cheese shares soar!", Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Chicken Run: Eggstraction; "THE MOON", "CHEESE?")
- Wendolenedale (The Curse of the Ramsbottoms)
- Mendip (mild English goat's cheese with a porous, sponge-like texture) (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Mars cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Double Gloucester Old Spot (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Creamy Wallaby (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Doncaster Crust (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Quadruple Gloucester (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Reindeer cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Wallace's cheese (Crackers in Space)
- Stinking Archbishop (Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention "Come to Your Senses")
Forms of cheese[]
- Cheese toastie (Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper)
- Grated cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook; "Grate Cheddar Street", "Alexander the Cheese Grate", Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Grated Expectations")
- Cheese spread (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook; "St Ivel's Day, the patron saint of cheese spread", Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl; seen more clearly in The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl)
- Low-fat cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Goat's cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cheese dip (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook; "CHEESY DIP", Anoraknophobia)
- Sheep's cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cheese and onion flavour crisps (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Skimmed cow's milk cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cheese pancakes (using Wensleydale, eggs, Cheddar, Red Leicester, flour, Stilton, Lymeswold, Gorgonzola, Neufchâtel, milk, Caerphilly, Single Gloucester, lemon and Gruyère) (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Fondue ("kind of a hot soup made out of melted Gruyère cheese and wine") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Square cheeses (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Wedge cheeses (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Round cheeses (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cauliflower cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Babybel (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook; "Music by the Baby Bels")
- Lite cheese (Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13")
- Swiss cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Swiss Cheese Family Robinson")
- Green cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "How Green Was My Cheese")
- Hard cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Soft cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Blue cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Cheesymite spread (Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl)
- Quattro Formaggi (Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl; sheet music title seen during piano playing of "Wallace & Gromit Theme")
Fictional forms of cheese[]
- Dutch Reverse Club Sandwich ("three slices of bread in layers between thick chunks of Edam") (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Easter Egg of chocolate filled with thick, runny cream cheese (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cheese flavoured ice cream (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Soft cheese sandcastle (Wallace & Gromit: Cheese Lover's Yearbook)
- Cheeeselits (based on Cheeselets) (Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13")
- Cheese ice lolly (Radio Times Wallace & Gromit 1998 cover, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl)
Names for cheese[]
- Cheesy nibbles (Wallace & Gromit and the Lost Slipper, "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without...")
- Fromage (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Fromage to Eternity", Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention "Come to Your Senses")
Cheese knife[]
A cheese knife can be seen several times throughout the series. It is first seen in the intro to A Close Shave, near cheese and crackers next to Wallace sleeping in his bed and then hitting the floor in between his slippers as the title appears.
It can next be seen as one of the knifes Gromit hovers over in picking in the first morning scene of Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
In the Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention episode "Come to Your Senses", Wallace actually uses a cheese knife to cut a piece off of the Stinking Archbishop. He offers it to Gromit, who faints from the smell, and then eats it himself off of the knife. As the episode ends, he continues using it to eat the cheese.
In the climax of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Feathers McGraw uses a cheese knife to separate the rope between the canal boats in an attempt to escape the duo.
Trivia[]
- The video "What would be on your cheese board?"[1] on the Wallace & Gromit YouTube channel additionally mentions a stronger selection of Somerset's cheddars and the spicy Mexicana cheese.
- The Shaun the Sheep spin-off additionally features cheese pizza.
- The Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit books "HOW GREEEN WAS MY CHEESE", "EAST OF EDAM" and "SWISS CHEESE FAMILY ROBINSON" make a cameo in the cinematics of Chicken Run: Eggstraction (the former of which is pulled to activate a revolving area to reveal Feathers on the other side with a picture featuring Piella) alongside a unique book with "THE MOON", "CHEESE?", an image of the moon and an image of Wallace on its spine.
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