Cheddar in most places outside the UK is "not cheddar". If I go to the supermarket here in Sweden and buy the first "cheddar" I see prominently displayed, I'm not getting cheddar from the UK.

I agree, it's Red Leicester at best. Completely lacking in any depth or complexity of flavour.

To be clear, you can get 'real' Cheddar as well if you go to the 'fancy' cheese section of a 'fancy' supermarket and pay 3 times as much.

“Farmhouse cheddar” I believe is the protected term for cheese from Cheddar or nearby.

Interesting, I was not aware of this.

you can get good cheddar in the US. Here is a widely available brand which is much better than average US cheddar https://www.tillamook.com/products/cheese/sharp-white-chedda... aged cheddar is nom nom nom

I will have to try it next time over there, but please don't be offended when I say that based upon all the cheeses I have eaten over there I won't be holding my breath.

"West Country Cheddar" is protected. I doubt you can get that in the US very easily though.

Probably because they won't understand what "West Country" means?