cheese straw

British  

noun

1. a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry

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Example Sentences

The cheese melts and browns, giving the bottom crust the taste and texture of a giant cheese straw.

From New York Times

Now Council has pooled hundreds of small businesses statewide, mostly family-run — among them a 106-year-old peanut farm, a line of small-batch jams and dry rubs, a 91-year-old cookie company, terroir tea from the Blue Ridge Mountains, a more-than-100-year-old cheese straw company, a 240-year-old pottery shop, vegan granola and trail mix from Asheville, and salted peanuts that have been cooked in the basement of a Methodist church since 1965.

From Washington Post

As the dough came together and softened, Mr. Chen divided the lump into baguette-size lengths and twisted each one tight like cheese straw.

From New York Times

And that he perceived, as he got his bearings, was in the house to which Ellen was leading him down the narrowest garden he had ever seen, a mere cheese straw of grass and gravel.

From Project Gutenberg

She took another cheese straw.

From Project Gutenberg