Mr. McQ and I were watching Monty Python’s famous Cheese Shop skit and noticed that the name of the shop was Wensleydales. The only other place I’d heard of this cheese was in Wallace and Gromit’s ‘A Close Shave’. Wondering if there was any connection, I went googling. There isn’t, it seems, but it seems that Wallace’s love of this cheese(and Nick Park’s love of a word that’s fun to animate) pulled the makers of this dairy treat back from the brink. Yay Wensleyday! It actually does sound good. I may just order some! 
Until visiting a girlfriend’s family in Yorkshire, I’d never imagined eating cheese and fruitcake together. But with Wensleydale, the combination works brilliantly 
I started a thread on this when I stumbled across a package of WWensleydale Cheese with Wallace and Grommit’s picture on it.
there’s apparently a feature on how they saved the cheese company on the DVD of Curse of the Were-Rabbit:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358636&highlight=Wensleydale
Some day I am going to learn to search threads before starting new topics! :smack: It’s not easy to find something that dopers don’t already know.
Don’t do that! We don’t need the zombie threads. And, besides, if other people do it, I don’t feel so bad about doing it all the time.
It’s just easier to link to an old thread rather than repeast yourself.
I had me some very good Wensleydale on Saturday morning. I made a fast sandwich of Wensleydale sliced thin and a lot of romaine lettuce. It was delicious.
It is a very tasty cheese.
Apparently W&G has much power to help small cheese companies. They have also helped out Stinking Bishop Cheese. More on Wiki.
Jim
Hornblower discoves how great Wensleydale cheese goes with Port in one of Forester’s naval tales. And, I can confirm this. 
I’ve been mourning the loss of the only sandwich with cranberry wensleydale that was served on campus. Our Au bon Pan used to make these beautiful sandwiches with roasted turkey, cranberry wensleydale, romaine lettuce, slivered almonds, and honey mustard all on warm rosemary foccacia. It tasted like Thanksgiving. Now, for some reason, they’ve take them off the menu. It’s sad, I came back to school after craving one all summer long and they didn’t have them anymore. Luckily, the local whole food store sells wensleydale cheese, so I can still get my fix that way.
Mmmmm…I love good cheese.
The Wensleydale valley (along with Swaledale) is also a gorgeous area of England. (The Yorkshire Dales.) It was part of the area covered by James Herriot (real name: Alf Wight) the veterinarian of All Creatures Great and Small fame and where most of the outdoor scenes from the TV series were filmed.
In 1999 I visited the cheese factory in Hawes (Wensleydale Cheese Visitor Centre) and in the shop they had a number of Wallace and Gromit connections. It was great fun and of course, it had CHEEEESE!