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. It even influences his decision to go somewhere cheese-related in that film (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". 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.
List of cheeses featured in Wallace & Gromit[]
- Cheddar (A Grand Day Out; first cheese featured, The Wrong Trousers, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- The Moon's "cheese" (A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers; "Moon cheese shares soar!")
- Wensleydale (A Grand Day Out, A Close Shave, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Wensleydale Lovers Society" & "welcome to... Wensleydale")
- Stilton (A Grand Day Out)
- Camembert (A Grand Day Out)
- Gorgonzola (The Wrong Trousers, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
- Lite cheese (Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13")
- Edam (Cracking Contraptions "Shopper 13"; Giant Edam and smaller edam, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "East of Edam")
- Swiss cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Swiss Cheese Family Robinson")
- Brie (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Brie Encounter")
- Green cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "How Green Was My Cheese")
- Roquefort (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Brighton Roquefort")
- Red Leicester (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "The Hunt for Red Leicester")
- Grated cheese (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Grated Expectations")
- Fromage (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Fromage to Eternity")
- Gouda (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; "Waiting for Gouda")
- 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)
- Stinking Bishop (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention "Come to Your Senses"; Stinking Archbishop)