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Melrose apple

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A variety of red apple raised by Freeman S Howlett at Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station in Wooster, Ohio as a cross between Jonathan and Delicious and introduced commercially in 1944. Doesn’t do well in England. This late-season variety is harvested from early October in South-East England and is at its best from November to February.

Melton Intrigue

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A blue cow's milk cheese from Leicestershire.

Menallack Farmhouse

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A hard, truckle-shaped cow's milk cheese with a greyish-brown natural rind. This was a bronze medal winner at the 1995 British Cheese Awards.

Mendip

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A firm, raw goat's milk cheese with small holes made at Timsbury, which I used to be able to see from the flat I lived at in Bristol. The church stood on the brow of the hill which lay south of Bedminster. There was also a pub there which smoked its own meats, and snails too. This cheese is formed in a plastic mould which leaves impressions in the oiled rind.

Menorca in Balearic Islands

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Menton in Provence

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Merano in Trentino-Alto Adige

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Merchant cherry

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A very large, sweet, dark red or near black cherry (US: bing cherry).

Merimbula Sydney Rock oyster

[English] plural Merimbula Sydney Rock oysters

Merimbula Bay is on the Sapphire Coast in the province of New South Wales. There Sydney Rock oysters are farmed, producing highly regarded molluscs with good flavour.

Merlin Cheeses

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A hard, Cheddar-like goat's milk cheese with different coloured wax rinds made in Dyfed. The different varieties contain apple, apricot, ginger, olive, pineapple and walnut. There is also a smoked variety.