pimento cheese

noun

: a Neufchâtel, process, cream, or occasionally cheddar cheese to which ground pimientos have been added

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Get the recipe > Pimento Cheese Burgers Skip the ketchup and mustard and slather your burger patties with pimento cheese instead. Saveur Editors, Saveur, 5 Feb. 2025 Another option to fill your belly with warmth: a Pinky Burger topped with that housemade pimento cheese and beef chili. Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2025 There is no denying that most Southerners are big fans of pimento cheese. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2024 For dining and libations with a view, try Edgar’s Above Broad, a snazzy rooftop restaurant in downtown for breakfast, lunch or dinner, for Southern palate showstoppers of deviled eggs, pimento cheese dip, blue crab dip and pulled pork nachos. Tribune News Service, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pimento cheese 

Word History

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of pimento cheese was in 1910

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“Pimento cheese.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pimento%20cheese. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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