Olomouc cheese

English

Etymology

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.

Noun

Olomouc cheese (uncountable)

1. a kind of ripened soft cheese, characteristic with its strong scent, distinctive pungent taste and yellowish colour, traditionally made in central Moravia, 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.

Translations

Olomouc cheese

• Czech: olomoucké tvarůžky m pl, olomoucké syrečky m pl
• Finnish: Olmützer Quargel
• German: Olmützer Quargel m, Quargel (de) m
• Hungarian: olmützi kvargli, kvargli (hu)
• Polish: twarożki ołomunieckie m pl, serki ołomunieckie m pl
• Russian: Оломоуцкие сырки m pl (Olomouckije syrki)
• Slovak: Olomoucké tvarôžky m pl, Olomoucké syrčeky m pl