What Are Maryland’s Top 5 Cheese Products?

National Cheese Lovers Day in the United States is on Jan. 20, 2025.

To celebrate, BetMaryland.com – where you can find the best Maryland sportsbook promo codes – used Google Trends to see which cheese-based foods are most popular in Maryland. The search period was from Jan. 7, 2005, to Jan. 7, 2025. We ranked the items on this list based on search interest score.

Maryland’s Favorite Cheese Products

Rank	Product	Search Interest Score
1	Cheesecake	65
2	Mac and Cheese	19
3	Quesadilla	18
4	Cheese Pizza	17
5	Nachos	14

Maryland is famous for crab cakes. But don’t think about that here – they are unrelated to the similarly named cheesecake, which is by far the top cheese-related product in Maryland,

Cheesecake, most often associated with New York (or sometimes Philadelphia), had a search interest score of 65, according to our research. That was far ahead of second-place macaroni and cheese (19 points).

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Facts About Maryland Dairy Products

Did you know that milk is the official state drink of Maryland? The Maryland.gov website has facts about the state’s cows (plus some minutiae about how milk became the state’s official drink in 1998). Maryland is not known as a huge dairy production center, but Frederick County and Washington County share a significant portion of the dairy cows in the Old Line State. According to the website, Holstein cows dominate the dairy scene in Maryland.

According to statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Maryland produced 846 million pounds of milk in 2023, up slightly from 840 million in 2019.

And Marylandroadtrips.com has a guide to some of the most prominent cheesemakers in the state – the website says that the industry has picked up since 2013, when using raw milk in aged cheeses became legal in Maryland. So, blessed are the cheesemakers!

USA Today Network photo by John Oliva/Caller-Times

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Jim Tomlin

Jim Tomlin has nearly 30 years of experience in journalism, having worked at such publications as the Tampa Bay Times, FanRag, Saturdays Down South and Saturday Tradition. He is a contributing writer and editor for BetMaryland.com.