Over the Thanksgiving holiday we had family over.  My parents came as well as my cousin and his wife.  I thought it would be fun to have some appetizers before the huge meal so I set out to form a cheese tray.  I ended up with some really good cheeses.  One of the cheeses was a Wensleydale.  It was very good.  I was talking to my dad and he mentioned this quote:

In the 1990s, sales had fallen so low that production was at risk of being suspended.^[6] However, the popular Wallace and Gromit animated shorts A Grand Day Out and A Close Shave had the main character Wallace mention Wensleydale as a particularly favourite cheese. Animator Nick Park chose it solely because it had a good name that would be interesting to animate, unaware of the company’s financial difficulties.^[7] The company contacted Aardman Animations about a licence for a special brand of “Wallace and Gromit Wensleydale”, which proved to be an enormous success.^[8] When the 2005 full-length Wallace and Gromit movie, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released, sales of Wensleydale cheeses jumped by 23%.

Interesting stuff.  I love the cheese, and I love wallace and Gromit.  It was a great Thanksgiving.

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