Slot machines have exploded in popularity and there are now games for every theme imaginable. One unlikely subject that players can enjoy is cheese! Cheese themed slots such as Royale With Cheese Megaways, Pantry Plunder and the Big Cheese Trail are available to play online. They feature everything from cheerful mice characters to reels stacked with all manner of food items including pretzels, ham and marmalade!
Royale With Cheese Megaways
Royale With Cheese Megaways by iSoftBet is a fast-paced slot filled with finger-licking features. This six-reel game delivers up to 117,649 ways to win and offers a full meal of bonuses including a unique Build Your Burger Bonus.
Set in a drive-in American diner, the reels are adorned with symbols such as fries, hot dogs and ice cream sundaes. These are joined by playing card symbols, a chicken mascot and a delicious-looking burger.
The game uses the Megaways mechanism developed by Big Time Gaming to provide a dynamic number of winning ways with each spin. Symbols can appear stacked or as singles and the number of rows will change with each spin. The game also includes a horizontal tracker which can trigger the Max Megaways feature guaranteeing a high number of symbols on each reel.
Royale With Cheese Megaways includes five bonus features, including cascades, a Build Your Burger pick-style feature and free spins with tasty modifiers like multipliers, symbol removal or extra free spins. These can be triggered by landing three or more bonus symbols anywhere in view.
Pantry Plunder
The life of a mouse may be short and nervous but give them the Three Blind Mice nursery rhyme and a larder to raid and things start to look brighter. Pantry Plunder is a ripper of an online slot from Playtech that follows our furry friends on a kitchen raid in search of cheese, free spins and bonus features.
The gist of the game is you will find a grid of reels with twenty fixed paylines and a wide variety of symbols to land on them. The low value symbols are made up of playing cards, 10, J, Q and K fashioned from French baguettes while the higher value icons include a bottle of marmalade and a leg of roast beef.
When a win is achieved the winning symbols are removed and new ones drop in to form more wins, each time this happens it triggers a chain reaction known as a ‘dig’. This can reveal map pieces which can take you to the Farmer’s Wife, Whack-a-Mouse or Big Cheese Trail bonus rounds or award a random special feature such as a Rush symbol, a guaranteed win or a multiplier on a line of five matching symbols.
Big Cheese Trail
Every Saturday in May, stops along the Oxford County Cheese Trail ramp up their offers with exclusive tastes, cheese factory tours, hands-on experiences and extra cheesy menu items. Dad’s Ice Cream in Tillsonburg, for example, is offering a Big Cheese Trail Butter Tart Sundae with butter tarts from The County Table in Tillsonburg layered with vanilla ice cream, butterscotch sauce, peanuts, whipped cream and a cherry on top.
The Oxford County Cheese Trail is easy to navigate, with hubs in Blandford-Blenheim, Gunn’s Hill, Woodstock, Ingersoll and Tillsonburg, all within about an hour’s drive of each other. You can follow a pre-made itinerary or create your own. For those looking for a little help, the Elm Hurst Inn is offering a Cheese Trail package that includes one night’s accommodation in a Deluxe Inn Room, a complimentary breakfast in Mansion Restaurant and an Oxford County cheese board delivered to your room.
Edam
Edam is a popular snack cheese that has a smooth texture and mild nutty flavor that can be intensified with age. Made from skimmed and part-skimmed cow’s milk, edam has a lower fat content than its compatriot Gouda.
Unlike Gouda, which has a protected designation of origin, Edam does not have such a status, so it can be produced by any dairy that wishes to do so. This makes the cheese easy to find at grocery stores and artisan markets alike.
This semi-hard cheese is named for its region of origin and comes in stout cylindrical or nearly spherical wheels traditionally weighing up to three pounds. The rind is coated in signature red wax, which gives the cheese its distinct look.
Compared to cheddar, edam has a sweeter, more nutty flavor profile and less of a rubbery texture. It’s a great melting cheese, and its mild profile makes it an excellent addition to salads and pasta dishes. It pairs well with fruity wines like pinot gris and riesling, or light to medium reds like Beaujolais and malbec.
