It was flaky, nutty and rich.
To make cheese, farmers milk the cows by squeezing their udders. Then they warm the milk and mix in good bacteria and something called rennet, which makes the milk turn thick. Then, the farmers cut the thick milk into little pieces, press them and stack them to squeeze out water. Then they shape the cheese and let it rest so it can turn into cheddar cheese.
How cheese tastes depends on what the cows eat and where they grow up! A fun fact I learned recently is that Irish dairy products are yellow in color because cows eat Irish grass. Irish grass is so wet from rain that it starts to produce a chemical that turns things orange, similar to carrots! That chemical is called beta-carotene. If we didn't add any colors to dairy in the US, it would probably be white in color. But, in Ireland, the cheese, milk and butter are much yellower!
Because cows eat so much grass, sometimes they get into places we don't want them to. At the National Cemetery in Dublin, the cows were eating grass and flowers around people's graves, and they didn't want that! So, they planted yew trees, which are native to Ireland, to keep the cows away. Cows don't like yew trees because they are toxic to them!
