Food & drink

cheese

Romans brought pressed, aged cheese north and the Germanic peoples borrowed its name, cāseus; English cheese, German Käse, Dutch kaas, Welsh caws and Spanish queso are all the same Latin word, and Mexican queso has come back into American English as a dip.

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