Stinking Bishop
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Stinking Bishop was the posthumous nickname of a Mr. Bishop of Dymock, England, given to him by neighbors due to his allegedly ugly temperament.
In a 2005 NPR interview with Charles Martell, the sole maker of Stinking Bishop cheese, Martell related a story that Bishop got angry at his skillet one day for not heating fast enough and in retaliation shot it. Although possibly apocryphal, it illustrates the sort of behavior which earned his neighbors' enmity.
- Stinking Bishop pear, named after the man who bred them.
- Stinking Bishop cheese, uses cider from the pears in the ripening process.
Stinking Bishop cheese was prominently featured in the Wallace and Gromit movie Curse of the Were-Rabbit, leading to a jump in sales.
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