Ripe cheese men found under small container (8,6)

'ripe cheese' is the definition.
(type of cheese)

'men found under small container' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'small' could be 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size) and 's' is found within the answer.
'container' could be 'tin' (tin is a kind of container) and 'tin' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...