What Is Hoop Cheese? The Old-Fashioned Cheese You Can Only Find At Southern Grocery Stores And Roadside Stands

With Gouda or Emmentaler, the name reveals where the cheese comes from. Or not? What it has on it with cheese names and origin is revealed by a dairy law expert.

What Is Hoop Cheese? The Old-Fashioned Cheese You Can Only Find At Southern Grocery Stores And Roadside Stands

We're dreaming hoop cheese dreams.GettyIf you've made a pitstop by a roadside stand in the South on the way to or from the beach, you may have seen wedges of pale yellow cheese enshrouded in red wax. These wedges look curiously like fancy gouda you might find at Whole Foods, but it's actually hoop cheese—and your grandma may have even grown up making it.Much like a farmer's cheese that requires only a few ingredients and a little time, hoop chee…