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Pimento Cheese. Pimientos are large, sweet, heart-shaped peppers that are typically used for canning. Pimento cheeseâthe simple combination of grated cheddar cheese with mayonnaise and pimientosâis a Southern staple often served on crackers or vegetables.imento cheeseâthe simple combination of grated cheddar cheese with mayonnaise and pimientosâis a Southern staple often served on crackers or vegetables.
The pimentoâs main purpose in life appears to be as a garnish, either in the center of a green olive or mixed into cheese. Green olives fresh off the tree are very bitter in flavor, so they are traditionally cured in brine before packaging. Even then their flavor is more palatable when a touch of something else is added, and in the U.S., the most popular âsomethingâ is pimento. Until the early 1960s, pimentos were sliced and then stuffed into olives by hand (presumably by patient workers with long, taper-y fingers). The Sadrym company of Seville, Spain, introduced the first automatic olive-stuffing machine in 1962, and is the largest manufacturer of such equipment today.