we call them cheese-eaters, yes.
They don't have hills in their country, so they build cheese mountains and they have funny names for all. Like caravan, which is caravan in Belgian-Dutch is called a sleurhut (drag-shed) by them, lol. I think Tolkien had a fair hand in the translating proces. After all some of his friends were Dutchies and it was the first language the novel was translated into.