God be my witness, until today I actually thought that there was some place, in maybe Wisconsin or Minnesota, called Cheddar Bay, and that they made biscuits there, which Red Lobster copied for their own use.
Hm, being from no-lobster Wisconsin myself, I’d have imagined Cheddar Bay to be in Maine or Massachusetts.
Aldi (I think) sells Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix. I bought a box. Near as I can tell, it’s plain biscuit mix to which you add shredded cheddar, and after they bake, you drizzle garlic butter over them. I expect you could get the same results using Jiffy mix or Bisquik or whatever.
Over here, we wouldn’t associate Cheddar with the seaside, more with Wookey Hole (try marketing that!)
Challenge accepted!
“Stuff your cookie hole with Wookey Hole Cookies”
or, with our tendency to use poor spellings in product names:
“Stuff your cookie hole with Wookey Hole Cookeys”.
“Are Girl Scout cookies made with real Girl Scouts?”
In my defense, if I associate cheddar with a geographical location, it’s England, and Wisconsin. Plus, Wisconsin has a Green Bay, so why not a Cheddar Bay, as well?
Green Bay Biscuits are what you get when you leave Cheddar Bay biscuits out too long.
Or Vermont, which unfortunately has no seashore. Maybe a bay on Lake Champlain?
Maine and Massachusetts also have local cheeseries, but not as renowned as Vermont.
Here are two recipes for Cheddar Bay Biscuits, and there are more. NONE of them contain bay leaves.
Yeah, I kinda overlooked the New England offerings in favor of the ancestral homeland and the only other cheese-famous state I’ve actually visited.