ProbableNamed from the place
Monterey Jack
noun · first attested 19th century
Half the name is a California town; the other half is probably a man named Jacks.
A mild, pale, semi-hard cow's milk cheese that melts smoothly.
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- Named from the place
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- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 19th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Monterey
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Monterey Jack
Franciscan missions around Monterey made a soft young cheese, and the businessman David Jacks marketed it widely in the 1880s, so it traveled as Jacks' cheese. Some accounts instead derive the "jack" from the house press used to squeeze the curd, and both explanations are still in circulation.
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