As a cheese lover, I also adored this theme! It was the bottom-left corner that gave it to me, especially when I stared at GABL knowing there's no way it was a real word
love the theme, really fun! the cluing was also really nice in this puzzle. i loved the locals/locale echo in MALIBU/SITE, duplicate clues in EXEC/MGR, and most of all the rhyming-ish clues on NOD and ORE, especially since they're right next to each other!