Havarti in Britain

[Wendalyn Nichols]

I have to say in all the time I lived in England I don't remember seeing
Havarti. I was in Denmark this summer and bought some cheese I know was
what I'd call Havarti but that wasn't its name--it was something really
generic like "mild cheese"--so it may be just a name thing.
Wendalyn

At 04:29 PM 2/27/03 -0500, you wrote:
>No Oxford dictionary (except the Canadian Oxford, 1998) seems to have any
>use for "Havarti" cheese, not that I have a comprehensive collection, 20/20
>vision, or can tell between cheeses. That includes OED on CD-ROM (1988),
>Shorter Oxf. (2002), the Concise (2002), and even the American New Oxf.
>Dict. of English (1998), New Oxf. Amer. Dict. (2001). "Havarti" is, of
>course, in all the major American desk dictionaries, except the older RHD
>and RHWD (mine are 1987 and 1991 resp.).
>
>I wonder if it's in the online version. Do the British like Havarti at all?
>
>Google has 1,110 hits for "Havarti" and six for "Havrati" (possibly like
>"aks" for "ask").