Palmetto Cheese

The cheese was commercially marketed beginning in 2006 with 20 packages for sale at Independent Seafood in Georgetown, South Carolina. To meet demand, production was outsourced to a Simpsonville, South Carolina, company. In 2013, the company marketed 4.1 million containers of the cheese, with the original variety as the company's top seller, followed by the jalapeño and bacon varieties. ==2020 controversy==

In 2020, Palmetto Cheese was removed from the shelves by Costco and faced boycotts after its owner, Brian Henry, while serving as the mayor of Pawleys Island, South Carolina, referred to Black Lives Matter as a "terror organization" in a Facebook post. Henry said a boycott would harm workers, later apologizing for the post. The company's packaging, which had previously featured a photograph of Vertrella Brown, a former African American cook at Pawleys Island's Sea View Inn, was subsequently revised, deleting Brown's photograph, and the company's website briefly carried a prominent statement: "We view elevating racial equality as one of our brand's responsibilities. Palmetto Cheese is evolving and listening to the black American community, our customers, and business partners. We are committed to lead as an advocate for uniting the community, starting with a rebranding of our product identity." ==See also==