Olomouc cheese

The proper noun Olomouc refers to the fact that the cheese has been traditionally produced in the surroundings of the city of Olomouc and in the past used to be sold especially in Olomouc markets.

Olomouc cheese (uncountable)

1. a kind of ripened soft cheese, characteristic with its strong scent, distinctive pungent taste and yellowish colour, nowadays made in the town of Loštice, the Czech Republic
   • 1998, R. Andrew Wilbey; J.E. Scott; Richard K. Robinson, Cheesemaking Practice, New York: Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 102:

     Excess acidity has been neutralized in some milks by the use of sodium bicarbonate or sodium carbonate, e.g. in the former Czechoslovakia for Olomouc cheese.

   • 2009, Lisa Dunford, Central Europe, Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 148:

     Try the zingy wheat beer with the stinky Olomouc cheese.

• Olomoucké tvarůžky