Typical mass market eggs are unfertilized, but eggs from smaller scale or hobby farms are usually fertilized. On a small scale, it's easier to keep the hens safe from wildlife with a rooster around, but on a large scale they're just a waste of feed. If you're curious, fertilized eggs have a tiny red dot in the egg white.
The hens are more relaxed with a rooster around, too, so they are good to have if you care about animal welfare. Just wish people stopped buying them in residential areas.
According to all known laws
of aviation, there is no way a bee
should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
bees sometimes fly, like flies, but not exactly like flies; though they do fly. Bees do. Well, flies also fly, but differently. Not that differently if you don't care about such distinctions, but pretty differently if you do. I wish I could fly. That last one wasn't a bee fact. It was a me fact.
When it comes down to it lots of people eat things just because they like them not because it's beneficial. Obviously that can lead to unhealthy eating but in moderation there's nothing wrong with it.
" Believed to have originated in a cave in Roquefort, France, blue cheese is available in a handful of varieties including gorgonzola, stilton, and cambozola. The blue veins characteristic of blue cheese develop from the bacteria Penicillium Roqueforti that grow within small punctures created on top of the cheese loaves at the beginning of the cheese ripening process.
Though blue cheese is typically high in sodium, it is rich in dairy protein, dietary fats, and essential vitamins and minerals including calcium, phosphorous, potassium, zinc, and vitamin A. What makes each variety different is the type of milk used, the length of ripening, and the result texture and flavor."
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's two options here
1 I have met a fellow Italian
2 you are a master chef
(I don't believe anybody else outside Italy could match the right pasta with the right sauce )
Oooh now i understand yeah ...an Italian fanatic... that would be my third option next time 🤔 yokes aside I'm honored to be Italian some time thanks man
what, you don't eat spaghetti with every meal? there is a culture, and sometimes even a practical reason, for certain culinary traditions? Lasagna is a meat dish instead of a pasta dish?
Nice so ... let this be constructive for both ends ... Yeah we eat pasta really often like really often most of us at least once a day if not twice but we make it like 200 times more healthy than (as I heard) u probably did for instance we don't use ketchup on the pasta we use tomato sauce and there's so much difference it scientifically proved one Italian out of two will have a stroke discovering how you do it ... 😉 We usually eat around 80grams (yeah yeah go have fun doing the conversion ) of pasta plus some meat and veggies... And that's brings me straight to the point how the heck can u fill a dinner without some kind of pasta ... What did u eat? Meat and meat ? 🤷 About your second question I will skip it u probably don't really care and I will talk for like ages about stuff I somehow know because it's instinctive that objectively aren't so obvious...
Aaaaand no lasagna would probably still be considered a pasta disch yes it has some meet but it doesn't metter ... Spaghetti con le polpettine (meatball spaghetti) also have meat but they remain pasta plus somewhere in remote regions of Italy we call the lasagna pasta al forno witch means oven baked pasta
you falsely assume I am America, also while pasta al forno is close to Lasagna, it's not really the same thing (who would have thunk that different regions of Italy have different food cultures)
My bad I shoot for the highest probably optionand I missed ... Yeah we gave the pasta al forno name to the lasagna and call that dish you probably refer as pasta pasticciata...
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.
Ok real talk but cheese is made of milk and milk is made from mutated sweat glands. So we take mutant sweat and let it spoil, sift it, and press it before exposing it to mold.
I don't know why the mold is where we draw the line if we're drawing them. I'd be wondering why you're constantly sticking your arm in a cow vagina to keep it pregnant or with a calf so you can harvest the nutrition sweat and let it spoil.
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.
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
Yeah, not liking blue cheese because it's mold is just silly and mockable. Not liking it because it tastes bad to you is a legit opinion and no one should be shaming anyone for it.
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
How is that not what cheese is? As far as I understand, every cheese uses a bacterial culture, mesophilic or thermophilic. Blue cheese is different because it also has a fungal culture. But sure, usually it's put in on purpose when the cheese is made, not something that comes from the environment.
Traditionally is done by heating, separating and the introduction of rennet, which is an enzyme from calf guts that converts milk into a solid form that a herbivore can digest. This relates to why cows milk kills human infants and kittens but they can survive on goats. Cheese basically dates from ancient times when everyone was lactose intolerant but some farmer noticed how calves digest milk.
fucked if i know, none of that sounds right and it lists "rennet" as a type of soft cheese. EDIT: I looked into it. I know how to make cheese the traditional way. Commercial cheese making has gotten strange, and this article is fairly, but not completely accurate, as regarding modern methods, some only a few years old.
I've yet to find a burger that's better than just caramelised onions, blue cheese, and quality beef. I might add a leafy something out of arterial guilt, but I can't say it improves anything.
Nope. What I said was it's especially delicious with hot wings.
I can't speak for everyone, but it's been my experience that people don't tend to just hunker down and eat a block of cheese by itself. Most cheeses are meant to go with something else, unless you're Charlie Kelly getting ready for a big date.
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.
I assume you also find disgusting alcohol and all the other products obtained through fermentation? Or is stuff eaten by bacteria somehow better than fungi?
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.
I've grown to like a lot of tastes I've previously hated. Salted herring, olives, strong cheeses, whiskey... but moldy cheese is never going to happen. My body autonomously removes the piece of moldy food from my mouth and attempts to also empty my stomach just in case.
You could actually have an allergy. I met one other person who had a mold allergy that was cross reactive with blue cheeses, and had a similar reaction to them
Blue Cheese is the IPA of cheese. It has a lot of “flavor” which makes you think it’s “good” but… is it? It’s good, but not slap-your-own-mother amazingly life changing. I used to love it, but got tired of being punched in the face, and started to appreciate subtlety way more. Same with beers. I still like an IPA occasionally, if it’s of a higher quality, not just WE FUCKED ONE MILLION HOPS INTO THIS. It’s the same bullshit with “truffles”. Not really that good, thrown onto cheap garbage food to mark it up by $10. Again, the good, real truffles, are actually quite nice (and hard to come by for obvious reasons).
I don't find blue cheese so strong. Some are, and they can become too strong if they are a bit old, but they can also be very delicate. There are also way stronger and more in your face cheese than blue cheese.
The comparison with IPAs is apt. For me an IPA is really only suitable when it balances the flavors of some other food. But, let's be honest. People aren't getting IPAs for the hops. They're getting IPAs for the higher ABV. And, while I love blue cheese I never sit down and just eat it alone like I could disappear a block of aged cheddar. Blue cheese is always better when it balances the flavors of other foods like bacon, dates, cured meats, buffalo wings, cauliflower, salads, etc.
Truffle oil on the other hand might as well be snake oil. Truffle oil is never authentic, it's just flavored oil. Just give me some damn mushrooms and if truffles aren't available find another good mushroom and stop trying to make it an oil.
Wine is spoiled grapes, all cheese is just milk you left out for so long it got dry and sausages are what happens when you disembowel a pig and stuff its guts with its own minced ass. Today I ate a thing that looks like the first draft of an Aliens facehugger they rejected for being too spiky.
People buy food so processed they forget we're just gross hungry animals just putting random things in their mouths to see if it keeps them alive for a bit.
Sausages are also commonly inoculated with mold. The powdery coating on aged salami is Penicillium nalgiovense.
And some of the fanciest, most expensive wines are made from moldy grapes. Botrytis cinerea, when consistently wet and humid, causes "grey rot" which spoils the grapes. When it dries out, though, it becomes the "noble rot" which is prized.
Absolutely, if you've ever made the types of sausages for cold cuts at home it's very obvious. People think the white powdery thing is just cool packaging (and to be fair in ultraprocessed crap it can be), but nope, that stuff is transparent when you get started.
Also, the "transparent stuff"? Disemboweled guts. I mean, the mold should be the least of your concerns if you're going by gross-out factor.
Fun part is, Aspergillus oryzae (fungi used to make koji) can develop into dangerous strains that release heavy toxins able to easily paralyze an adult forever.
This is one if the reasons they say not to try making your own spores and to restart batches with commercially purchased spores. One of the things people do with it is fast age steaks over 24 hours at room temp by growing a layer of it on the steaks surface (moldy steaks). Also isnt Aspirgillus is a mold not a fungi?
Unless you grow and/or slaughter ALL your own food, you have eaten and will continue to eat both the intentional and unintentional shit, piss, spit, and cum of food processors, transporters, and preparers your entire life.
I know that freaks a lot of people out, personally it just reminds me that the idea of being clean in this world has always been a illusion and that there's no point obsessing over something out of my control.
If we wanted that to happen significantly less, we could compensate and respect said workers commensurate with their vital role to society, fulfilling a universal basic human need, instead of treating them like shit, paying them shit, and calling food preparation/processing/serving "unskilled," but we won't, so enjoy!
I once had a salad with what I thought was feta cheese on it, but it was actually blue cheese. The shock almost killed me. As did the awful taste of the blue cheese.
Honey fans eating literal bug vomit.
Mushroom fans eating literal reproductive organs.
Lots of things sound gross when you think about their origins. Just eat what you like.
Imagine you're chilling at the park and all the sudden some asshole rips your dick off and eats it
I will not.
I imagined it for you. Your penis was delicious.
That's what your mom said to me last night
This dudes a mushroom
He does seem like quite a fungi, my bro
Lol
That was meeee!!! Best friends!
Mushrooms are kinky like that though. They enjoy it.
I can relate.
I mean uhhhh
Es ist MEIN TEIL
Always upvote Rammstein.
Delerious Mr T. flashbacks intensify
Eggs are technically chicken’s periods when you think about it.
Wait really? That's so interesting. So eggs you buy at the store aren't fertilized? (Not sure if that's the right word but ykwim)
Correct. You can get fertilized ones too. Look up balut. Or don't.
That don't is a weak recommendation to not look it up, depending on the person it can be terrible to look at
Typical mass market eggs are unfertilized, but eggs from smaller scale or hobby farms are usually fertilized. On a small scale, it's easier to keep the hens safe from wildlife with a rooster around, but on a large scale they're just a waste of feed. If you're curious, fertilized eggs have a tiny red dot in the egg white.
The hens are more relaxed with a rooster around, too, so they are good to have if you care about animal welfare. Just wish people stopped buying them in residential areas.
Some countries sell packs of chicken offal, and you can see what the eggs look like before they get far enough along in the bird to have a shell
Ass ✅
And standard cheese is just milk way way past its conservation date.
cannibals are like right?? just let people enjoy what they want
is eating your own nails cannibalism because i know a person named Paul that eats his own toe nails
yes Paul is a deviant and must be stopped
Bees store the nectar in a honey stomach, where no digestions happen at all. So it's not bug vomit.
They're also bees, which are notably distinct from humans in ways almost too numerous to count.
Can I please have another bee fact?
That was bumble bees specifically, and we do know how they fly
bees sometimes fly, like flies, but not exactly like flies; though they do fly. Bees do. Well, flies also fly, but differently. Not that differently if you don't care about such distinctions, but pretty differently if you do. I wish I could fly. That last one wasn't a bee fact. It was a me fact.
I read this with Morgan Freeman voice and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thank you. Never have I rejoiced more in the rereading of my own comment.
“Vomit” doesn’t require digestion to be called vomit. If it was in a stomach and then came back out via a mouth, it’s vomit.
So you're calling a newborn baby vomit? (/s)
Though the baby's path has lips it's really not a mouth
They're clearly vaginal shit
Are bees a ruminant?
Montana has an event called the Testicle Festival, so they're not even trying to conceal the origins of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
Yoghurt?
Least honey and mushrooms offer benefits. The hell does eating blue mold do.
When it comes down to it lots of people eat things just because they like them not because it's beneficial. Obviously that can lead to unhealthy eating but in moderation there's nothing wrong with it.
reads this while munching on ramen at work
Yup I like it. No it's not very healthy.
Um, you know where ramen grows, right?
They grow on Ramen Trees. It's an offshoot of Spaghetti Trees
The ramen Gods. This is the origin of the phrase "Ramen" after a prayer.
Yes but that ramen does not grow on their heads.
Douse my brain in endorphins because it's friggin delicious.
" Believed to have originated in a cave in Roquefort, France, blue cheese is available in a handful of varieties including gorgonzola, stilton, and cambozola. The blue veins characteristic of blue cheese develop from the bacteria Penicillium Roqueforti that grow within small punctures created on top of the cheese loaves at the beginning of the cheese ripening process.
Though blue cheese is typically high in sodium, it is rich in dairy protein, dietary fats, and essential vitamins and minerals including calcium, phosphorous, potassium, zinc, and vitamin A. What makes each variety different is the type of milk used, the length of ripening, and the result texture and flavor."
https://www.verywellfit.com/blue-cheese-nutrition-facts-and-health-benefits-5206366
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/blue-cheese-types-benefits-risks-and-more
Mmmm, cheese.
I don't think that article knows what a bacterium is. Penicillium is a fungus.
Bah! Missed that. Thanks for the catch! I was looking for nifty things blue cheeses did nutritionally. Mostly seems they are just cheese.
Penicillin
Honey can literally kill humans
Everything can kill humans if you have enough of it.
Based everything
People have been hospitalised for too much spinach
Valid af
It's penicillin. Eating it not much but it does hold benefits aside from tasting good and calories
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.
He's going to gag when he learns how honey is made.
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.
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.
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.
Blue cheese is fucking delicious. Fick off
Yeah well Cathie disagrees.
DISCUSTING!
Throwback to Lubalin's cover of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmadzQ1uL0s
Some nice penne with gorgonzola sauce and some nuts thrown in there is sooooo goood.
There's two options here 1 I have met a fellow Italian 2 you are a master chef (I don't believe anybody else outside Italy could match the right pasta with the right sauce )
Consider me an honorary Italian: I love the food/drinks/clothing, I have many Italian friends and my partner is half-Italian.
If anything, I'm even more fussy with the sauce/pasta combinations than my partner (wine/food pairings as well).
Oooh now i understand yeah ...an Italian fanatic... that would be my third option next time 🤔 yokes aside I'm honored to be Italian some time thanks man
what, you don't eat spaghetti with every meal? there is a culture, and sometimes even a practical reason, for certain culinary traditions? Lasagna is a meat dish instead of a pasta dish?
Nice so ... let this be constructive for both ends ... Yeah we eat pasta really often like really often most of us at least once a day if not twice but we make it like 200 times more healthy than (as I heard) u probably did for instance we don't use ketchup on the pasta we use tomato sauce and there's so much difference it scientifically proved one Italian out of two will have a stroke discovering how you do it ... 😉 We usually eat around 80grams (yeah yeah go have fun doing the conversion ) of pasta plus some meat and veggies... And that's brings me straight to the point how the heck can u fill a dinner without some kind of pasta ... What did u eat? Meat and meat ? 🤷 About your second question I will skip it u probably don't really care and I will talk for like ages about stuff I somehow know because it's instinctive that objectively aren't so obvious... Aaaaand no lasagna would probably still be considered a pasta disch yes it has some meet but it doesn't metter ... Spaghetti con le polpettine (meatball spaghetti) also have meat but they remain pasta plus somewhere in remote regions of Italy we call the lasagna pasta al forno witch means oven baked pasta
you falsely assume I am America, also while pasta al forno is close to Lasagna, it's not really the same thing (who would have thunk that different regions of Italy have different food cultures)
My bad I shoot for the highest probably optionand I missed ... Yeah we gave the pasta al forno name to the lasagna and call that dish you probably refer as pasta pasticciata...
There are so many carbs that are not pasta...
OMG, you're eating bread? Don't you know that's made with the same stuff that infects vaginas?!
you mean my cousin Joel?
Maybe is he a baker?
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
Ok real talk but cheese is made of milk and milk is made from mutated sweat glands. So we take mutant sweat and let it spoil, sift it, and press it before exposing it to mold.
I don't know why the mold is where we draw the line if we're drawing them. I'd be wondering why you're constantly sticking your arm in a cow vagina to keep it pregnant or with a calf so you can harvest the nutrition sweat and let it spoil.
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
The one and only time I ate blue cheese it almost made me vomit in the middle of a cafeteria. Worst food I've ever tasted and it's not even close.
Yeah, not liking blue cheese because it's mold is just silly and mockable. Not liking it because it tastes bad to you is a legit opinion and no one should be shaming anyone for it.
You don't eat blue cheese because you don't like the mold
I don't eat blue cheese because I can't afford it
We are not the same
Are you also against penicillin? Because that's just refined mold.
Blue cheese is the best, and I will fist fight anyone who says otherwise.
No offense to blue cheese, but I don't know anybody who eats penicillin for the taste
Valid point
You just need the right wine pairing
Penicillin goes well with "my internal bacterial infection is hurting me again"
Yeah? Come at me Brie!
I'm not against penicillin but it sure is against me
Fucker gave me horrible hives. Just rude, tbh.
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.
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?
Cheese doesn't sound that great when you think of it as milk that's been left in a cave for a year and infested with bacteria
Aged like milk has a lot less impact if you are good at it.
"Aged like milk" can mean anything from "so awful it's literally illegal" to "so good people will pay unreasonable amounts of money".
That's not what cheese is, generally. Blue cheese is that though. Cheese is converted into a solid form in the kitchen the first day, then aged.
How is that not what cheese is? As far as I understand, every cheese uses a bacterial culture, mesophilic or thermophilic. Blue cheese is different because it also has a fungal culture. But sure, usually it's put in on purpose when the cheese is made, not something that comes from the environment.
Traditionally is done by heating, separating and the introduction of rennet, which is an enzyme from calf guts that converts milk into a solid form that a herbivore can digest. This relates to why cows milk kills human infants and kittens but they can survive on goats. Cheese basically dates from ancient times when everyone was lactose intolerant but some farmer noticed how calves digest milk.
I have made some simple cheeses before and learned about rennet so i can feed vegetarians. Then what is this page about? It seems every common type of cheese has a bacterial culture.
https://www.thecheesemaker.com/blog/cheese-cultures-explained-everything-you-need-to-know/
fucked if i know, none of that sounds right and it lists "rennet" as a type of soft cheese. EDIT: I looked into it. I know how to make cheese the traditional way. Commercial cheese making has gotten strange, and this article is fairly, but not completely accurate, as regarding modern methods, some only a few years old.
Penicillium roqueforti is our friend! Unless it's in grain, then it makes toxic compounds and causes spoilage. So it's our frenemy.
Blue cheese is delicious though! Especially with hot wings!
Or on a burger. Especially on a pepper crusted burger along with sauteed mushrooms.
I've yet to find a burger that's better than just caramelised onions, blue cheese, and quality beef. I might add a leafy something out of arterial guilt, but I can't say it improves anything.
Bacon, that burger needs bacon.
Dang, now you're making me hungry 🤤
Stuff raspberries with it. 🔥
I like to add a tiny dab to ginger snap cookies.
That sounds absurd but I kinda want to try it now lol
So you're telling me for it to be edible it has to be on something that's completely delicious on its own...
Also that's still a hard pass. Even on the burger which is more of the same lol.
Nope. What I said was it's especially delicious with hot wings.
I can't speak for everyone, but it's been my experience that people don't tend to just hunker down and eat a block of cheese by itself. Most cheeses are meant to go with something else, unless you're Charlie Kelly getting ready for a big date.
I mean... tell that to every person who eats a pinch full of cheese any time they open a shredded bag...
Or fuck some up on a snack board. (I suppose that's loosely with something else.)
But good cheese is definitely able to just be sliced and ate on the spot. Just make sure it's off the block and BAM.
Blue cheese though? I'll leave the stank foot blue waffle cheese to y'all.
Nope, it's perfectly delicious all by itself.
Reminds me of this classic:
Blue cheese mold is a banger!
https://youtu.be/HmadzQ1uL0s?si=WUJ3_-shyZ_4d_qT
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
I know, it's not buttered noodles and tendies. The horror.
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!
Mfw downing shots of apple cider vinegar for “health benefits”
But there are health benefits. I mean, not as big as some people claim, for sure, but they do exist: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/exploring-the-health-benefits-of-apple-cider-vinegar
Yeah but it's always about some rapid wait loss hack with these fads
I assume you also find disgusting alcohol and all the other products obtained through fermentation? Or is stuff eaten by bacteria somehow better than fungi?
Alcohol is made by fungi, as is bread, and mushrooms are literal fungi.
Right, forgot that yeast is considered fungi and not bacteria, my bad.
You make it sound like you are unconvinced by the division of eukaryotic life into kingdoms!
Yeah, what they said! Are we gonna have a problem here, buddy? You think you know better than Robert Whittaker??
Blue cheese culture is literal fungi as well.
Yes, that's why I mentioned mushrooms.
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.
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
Damnnn. I'm about to go get some stilton and cranberries right after work now.
I've grown to like a lot of tastes I've previously hated. Salted herring, olives, strong cheeses, whiskey... but moldy cheese is never going to happen. My body autonomously removes the piece of moldy food from my mouth and attempts to also empty my stomach just in case.
You could actually have an allergy. I met one other person who had a mold allergy that was cross reactive with blue cheeses, and had a similar reaction to them
That definitely sounds like an allergic reaction to me.
And people are allergic to penicillin, which is that fungus, but super purified (as caffeine pills are to coffee, but more so)
Blue Cheese is the IPA of cheese. It has a lot of “flavor” which makes you think it’s “good” but… is it? It’s good, but not slap-your-own-mother amazingly life changing. I used to love it, but got tired of being punched in the face, and started to appreciate subtlety way more. Same with beers. I still like an IPA occasionally, if it’s of a higher quality, not just WE FUCKED ONE MILLION HOPS INTO THIS. It’s the same bullshit with “truffles”. Not really that good, thrown onto cheap garbage food to mark it up by $10. Again, the good, real truffles, are actually quite nice (and hard to come by for obvious reasons).
I don't find blue cheese so strong. Some are, and they can become too strong if they are a bit old, but they can also be very delicate. There are also way stronger and more in your face cheese than blue cheese.
Totally agree. Not to mention that blue cheese is typically eaten in small quantities
I respect your opinion but I hate that you've done this to me. I hate IPA (mainly because it's fucking everywhere now) but love blue cheese.
I think you don’t have proper cheese available.
The comparison with IPAs is apt. For me an IPA is really only suitable when it balances the flavors of some other food. But, let's be honest. People aren't getting IPAs for the hops. They're getting IPAs for the higher ABV. And, while I love blue cheese I never sit down and just eat it alone like I could disappear a block of aged cheddar. Blue cheese is always better when it balances the flavors of other foods like bacon, dates, cured meats, buffalo wings, cauliflower, salads, etc.
Truffle oil on the other hand might as well be snake oil. Truffle oil is never authentic, it's just flavored oil. Just give me some damn mushrooms and if truffles aren't available find another good mushroom and stop trying to make it an oil.
People get IPAs even when they're normal strength
Facetious - adjective treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
That part of the comment was facetious.
Maybe. But it used to be more true, back when IPA meant strong and bitter, and other terms were used for the high flavour beers
Wait until you find out about Koji and how soy sauce is made.
Wine is spoiled grapes, all cheese is just milk you left out for so long it got dry and sausages are what happens when you disembowel a pig and stuff its guts with its own minced ass. Today I ate a thing that looks like the first draft of an Aliens facehugger they rejected for being too spiky.
People buy food so processed they forget we're just gross hungry animals just putting random things in their mouths to see if it keeps them alive for a bit.
“Cheese is just milk gone off big time styly.” - Stephen Fry
Sausages are also commonly inoculated with mold. The powdery coating on aged salami is Penicillium nalgiovense.
And some of the fanciest, most expensive wines are made from moldy grapes. Botrytis cinerea, when consistently wet and humid, causes "grey rot" which spoils the grapes. When it dries out, though, it becomes the "noble rot" which is prized.
Absolutely, if you've ever made the types of sausages for cold cuts at home it's very obvious. People think the white powdery thing is just cool packaging (and to be fair in ultraprocessed crap it can be), but nope, that stuff is transparent when you get started.
Also, the "transparent stuff"? Disemboweled guts. I mean, the mold should be the least of your concerns if you're going by gross-out factor.
Fun part is, Aspergillus oryzae (fungi used to make koji) can develop into dangerous strains that release heavy toxins able to easily paralyze an adult forever.
This is one if the reasons they say not to try making your own spores and to restart batches with commercially purchased spores. One of the things people do with it is fast age steaks over 24 hours at room temp by growing a layer of it on the steaks surface (moldy steaks). Also isnt Aspirgillus is a mold not a fungi?
Mold is a structure formed by some fungi. Mold is always fungal.
Blue stilon is amazing
Blue cheese drizzled with honey and topped with pecans is great.
Honey and cheese in general -- mwah. I like a fresh slice of challah with brie and honey on top.
Yes, come to the mold cult, it's worth it.
It's rare for a meme to make me salivate
To all of you cheese lovers: this is your Penicillium roqueforti, blue cheese mold, in a microbiology lab. Bon appetit
Not really the same thing, though. I also wouldn't lick bacteria out of a petri dish, but I'll happily eat yoghurt and sourdough bread.
I am totally licking it.
Wait til you hear what's in the pills they give you when you've got a bacterial infection. It's gonna blow your mind
Most of simple antibiotics are of fungal nature, yes
Using life against itself.
Stop. I can only get so hard.
Hell yeah that looks delicious, throw that on a steak and lets eat.
You didn't need to go to all the trouble, if you let some bread out in a humid place you'll get it all over it as well.
Still delicious.
Yeah, moldy bread will do (though it can contain some more nasty stuff as well)
I love it so much.
It's amazing, but I never peer pressure anybody to try it.
Because it's great when there's a cheese board and you get to hoard the blue cheese because people are "ew, gross, mold".
I am being called out
yim yum
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.
I'm sorry for your tongue. May it rest in peace.
Friendly reminder:
Unless you grow and/or slaughter ALL your own food, you have eaten and will continue to eat both the intentional and unintentional shit, piss, spit, and cum of food processors, transporters, and preparers your entire life.
I know that freaks a lot of people out, personally it just reminds me that the idea of being clean in this world has always been a illusion and that there's no point obsessing over something out of my control.
If we wanted that to happen significantly less, we could compensate and respect said workers commensurate with their vital role to society, fulfilling a universal basic human need, instead of treating them like shit, paying them shit, and calling food preparation/processing/serving "unskilled," but we won't, so enjoy!
Oh, you are giving a lot more credit to homemade food than it deserves. Or you're surprisingly alright with eating your own of all of the above.
Aren't we all continuously eating our own spit?
You left all the interesting ones out of that, though.
If you jerk off in a hot enough shower the cum scrambles just like eggs.
Moldy memes
I'm looking at you, Buffalo.
I once had a salad with what I thought was feta cheese on it, but it was actually blue cheese. The shock almost killed me. As did the awful taste of the blue cheese.
More for us, the ones who like blue cheese.
Almost looks like Slappy Smith got a slap of his own.
My sides lmao! Though I do like blue cheese
Blue cheese barely have any taste, get you game up
It's do good though!
Mould *