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{{Short description|Portuguese cheese brand}}
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'''Saloio''' is a brand of [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[cheese]] manufactured in the region of [[Ponte do Rol]], {{convert|50|km|abbr=on}} north of [[Lisbon]]. It is made from [[sheep's milk]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Layton | first=T.A. | title=Choose Your Cheese | publisher=Duckworth | year=1957 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dJTTjLxiJsoC | access-date=29 December 2019 | page=126}}</ref> with no [[salt]].  It is a firm cheese usually served in small cylinders that are 5&nbsp;cm wide and 6&nbsp;cm high.

Another meaning of ''saloio'' is of a [[Rural people|non-urban person]], i.e., a person living outside a large city in the countryside. Originally it was a term applied to someone who lives in the rural areas surrounding Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.<ref>{{cite book | last=Silva | first=J. | title=Entertaining Lisbon: Music, Theater, and Modern Life in the Late 19th Century | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-19-062868-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Q81DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT187 | access-date=29 December 2019 | page=pt187}}</ref>

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[[Category:Portuguese cheeses]]
[[Category:Sheep's-milk cheeses]]


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