Mold is a fungus. Same group as mushrooms, yeast, etc. Some mushrooms are edible and delicious. So are some molds. The mold in blue cheese is not the same as the kind that makes food inedible.
Yet for some of us we can taste that it is a mold and it triggers a gag/gross out effect. My dad loves it. For me it is “hmm not bad” then “ugh that is rotten” and my tastebuds/brain vascillate between those experiences as I’m chewing it
I’m the only member of my family that dislikes it
Smells great
Tastes worse than almost anything I’ve put in my mouth. Like, doesn’t even have a flavor per se, just tastes of “get that out of my mouth”
Never has a description of the experience of consuming blue cheese felt more accurate.
blue cheese has mold in it
you have shit in you.
Yea but I rarely eat it
I appreciate your honesty.
How did the surgury to remove your colon and both intestines go, Mr. Walter “Shitfree” Malone?
Nobody tell this guy about beer
Or every other cheese, or yogurt, sour cream, etc…
It’s like everyone puts on their blinders. Every time you hear cultured, fermented, or the big ol’ stupid blanket term “probiotic”, it means bacteria, mold, or yeast. Every time you hear “active”, that means it’s live organisms.
We all love to eat bacteria, mold and yeast. It all depends on the type.
I recognize there’s mold in the air I breathe and everything I eat, including apples.
I will eat an apple with invisible mold, I won’t eat an apple with visible mold.
Same goes for beer, yogurt, and cheese.
Blue on white?! Disgusting! White on white? Yum!
You do you though. More cheese for me.
Or bread.
And nobody tell them to examine an apple or any vegetable under a microscope
i mean there is no toxic yeast strains afaik, whereas the non toxic molds are only few specialized strains.
Yeast is an opportunistic pathogen that will secrete toxins. The reason that you don’t get sick when eating bread and stuff is because the yeast dies when you cook it, preventing infection. Although, I’m pretty sure you’ll be fine if you ate live yeast, because your stomach would kill them, also preventing an infection.
I mean Yeast isn’t generally considered mold.
Fermentation is still resulting in live organisms. Which essentially is what makes up a lot of food we eat. It doesn’t come out of a machine as only one atomic building block. And it is absolutely necessary in our nutrition to have this biodiversity even on a micro level to keep our body functioning.
Though it doesn’t mean you go lick the black mold in your shower. Just get some basic education of nutrition to the point you’re not so absolutely this negligently dumb about food as the OP.
Fermentation is still resulting in live organisms
Unless you’re drinking unfiltered beers, you shouldn’t actually have any live yeast left in your beer. And if there are prepare t6o be gassy as fuck for the rest of the day.
Which essentially is what makes up a lot of food we eat.
Well everything we eat was once living, or a product of something living. It’s not why people don’t like eating mold.
Mold still tastes nasty as fuck, blue cheese included, even if that particular mold is safe to eat.
It tastes nasty to you. That’s not something objective thing. You can dislike it all you want, but that doesn’t mean other people think the same.
And you can’t just say “all mold tastes nasty”, different kinds used in different ways have as wide of a spectrum of tastes as anything else. Common things that use mold: soy sauce, miso, tempeh, sake, cured meats, and many different kinds of cheeses (not just blue cheese) and more.
I’m not forcing you to eat it but preference alone isn’t enough reason to be spreading misinformation and just being stupid. Just say you don’t like it. Stay away from educating anyone on it being anything more than your preference though.
What misinformation? That yeast isn’t mold? That’s not misinformation.
And the fungal spores and germs in the air.
You don’t eat blue cheese because you don’t like the mold
I don’t eat blue cheese because I can’t afford itWe are not the same
Penicillium roqueforti is our friend! Unless it’s in grain, then it makes toxic compounds and causes spoilage. So it’s our frenemy.
I am literally eating blue cheese and enjoying the fuck off it, it’s the king of cheeses for me.
I love Gorgonzola but I never tried this. Is it similar?
I think they are one and the same
Imagine thinking eating spoiled milk from a cow isn’t weird, but the mold part is. There are quite a few cases where mold is good. It’s not like blue cheese is the exception.
Pretty much anything containing some form bread, like pastries, pizza and well bread, is commonly made with yeast which is also a fungus just like mold.
And wine!
And beer!
That’s nothing. There are even worse cheeses out there.
Also aspergillus is used in the production of ricewine and sake. Moldy food is all over the place.
I had forgotten that the larvae jump. For some reason that makes it so, so much worse to me. If I were to eat an arthropod-originating cheese I would probably prefer to try mite cheese.
Blue cheese is one of the most tasty cheeses. You can say I’m eating mold as many times as you want. I do not give a flying fuck. Shit is absolute S tier cheese.
Also some antibiotics are made from mold. People need to wake the fuck up and realize that blue cheese is god damn delicious.
Sauteed mushrooms and onions on a blackened burger with blue cheese on it is absolutely amazing and no one should deprive themselves of that lol
It is one of my favourite burgers
I’m all for a diverse palet but it’s not necessary to shame someone who knows and can understand their preferences for not liking something just like they shouldn’t shame you for liking blue cheese.
Shaming and spreading misinformation is bad faith arguing in either side.
Lol what the fuck misinformation was stated in my reply?
Also my reply was clearly half joking. You need to stop taking every god damn thing on the Internet so seriously. This was literally a post about blue cheese on a fucking meme community. Go outside and touch grass. You need it.
Calm down.
Lol so is this how you operate? If someone has a response that you don’t particularly like, you wrongly accuse them of spreading misinformation and then tell them to calm down?
My dad loves it. For me i get an initial hint of the flavour but then my taste buds/ brain get a rotten taste (like how week old garbage bins smell). As I eat it i’m on a roller coaster of mmm, and wretch. It must be some archaic survival thing where the mold triggers danger, because I love new tastes and gravitate to things like marmite and kambucha so fermented foods aren’t an issue
You can’t eat a big bite of it. That’s a rookie move. Just a little bit on a triscuit, maybe some mustard or salami with it, fucking mint.
I am a blue cheese veteran and I would literally eat a big bite. it’s so good. gimme the mold
Cranberries are awesome with it
Damnnn. I’m about to go get some stilton and cranberries right after work now.
Reminds me of this classic:
Yes, come to the mold cult, it’s worth it.
Love blue cheese, niva is the best. Am lactose intolerant. It’s not fair.
? there’s no lactose left in old cheeses.
Don’t eat moldy bread but eat moldy cheese.
