A front-page New York Times news article about a bid by the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2024 includes this passage: "As for signature landmarks, he pointed to the Golden Driller, a 76-foot-tall oil worker with cheese-color skin and a giant belt buckle that proudly declares, "TULSA." The main media center would sit at its feet and Olympic medals would hang from its neck."
As a descriptor of skin color, "cheese" isn't particularly helpful. Cheese comes in all colors, from the bright white of a goat cheese to the red rind of cheese that comes with a red rind to the orange of some cheddar to the blue or green hue of blue cheese.