Anyone else not like cheese?

[YellowBlueStar]

I don't like cheese. I'll eat mozzarella on a pizza or cream cheese in a cheesecake but that's it. Anything stronger flavoured makes me feel sick. When I tell people, they look at me as if I'm weird and say things like 'how can you not like cheese?'. But I just don't like it. I don't know anyone else who doesn't like cheese so just wondering how many of us are out there?

I don't really like camembert and brie and blue cheese. Or processed cheese. Or edam or Gouda. Or mild cheddar and red Leicester.

I like goats cheese, boursin, mozzarella, emmental and Comte.

I love mature cheddar - the stronger the better. Not bothered about any other types (yes, I've tried them).

I like basic cheese - cheddar! But I do find something like a cheese board a bit of a trial, it might be ok but might be grim. Which I think isn't really the point? Some people seem to compare it to chocolate but beyond a bit of cheddar/brie, I'm not interested.

My late step mum didn’t like cheese or cream she would eat cheesecake so long as it was flavoured with something such as chocolate.

I can’t stand it either but then it’s turns out I have CMPA so that’s probably the reason…

Me! It's disgusting 🤮 I have a complete phobia - caused by being forced to eat it at primary school on ravioli 🤮🤮🤮

I can't touch it even if in a packet - the Mac Donald's advert where they pick the cheese off the wrapper makes me feel ill

People look at me as if I'm mad - I won't eat any form inc cheesecake or carrot cake frosting and can't even serve it to the children

Reminds me of the Peter Kay sketch...
Cheesecake?
Cheese!!!!
Cake!!!!
A cake of cheese???

My SIL absolutely loathes cheese. Always has. She’s vegetarian too which must make it difficult.

Plus a friend has a cow’s milk allergy so I’m used to cooking without cheese. No problem. Love the stuff myself although not as passionately as DH does!

@DilemmaDelilah I have most of the things you don't like in my fridge right now 😂

I just counted - did the supermarket shop yesterday and I have 10 types of cheese in my fridge right now.

If I hated cheese I'd be richer and thinner.

I’m with the OP, mozzarella is fine and I can eat pizza, lasagna, mac and cheese but a cheese board is my idea of hell. My best friend had a cheesecake, as in stacked wheels of cheese, instead of a wedding cake and the whole reception venue stank to high heaven.

Weirdly though, I love goats cheese 🤷‍♀️

My son, and it's one of the more annoying things he doesn't like as it is in so many things. I hope he grows out of it.

Yes! How people can eat stuff that smells like feet is beyond me. I like cheesecake as it's mixed in with other stuff.

Trouble is, a lot of catering places stick cheese in or on everything as it's a cheap way of making a dish look more appealing. Gross.

I actually feel sick when I see the big melted gluey looking strings of mozarella (or whatever it is) on pizza and other foods. I ask myself WHY? I mean why would anyone try to eat something that looks like that! Chewy, gluey crapola and the texture and the chewing and.... just NO!

However, I will eat all other cheese with gusto, but melted stuff absolutely no way.

Yes, I have found that too. I always read menus really carefully when eating out to check that the food I choose is cheese less but, on occasions, it has come out with grated parmesan (like smelly feet shavings) on top despite no mention of it on the menu - why?!

@YellowBlueStar if I order food of any kind at a restaurant and it comes out with extras not detailed on the menu then I'm afraid I send it back. Not if it's my own mistake of course, just if it's something other than described. I too dislike parmesan and I wouldn't be eating it, but I find the things that most often come out other than described are desserts. I check that they don't have cream and if they say they do I ask for no cream. But then my perfectly delicious chocolate fondant pudding comes smothered in cream, so I have to send it back.

I only like mild cheddar. Anything else and I won’t eat it

I can sympathise to an extent. I only like a few types(cheddar, mozzarella, feta, cream cheese, Emmental and Gouda) And usually melted or cooked into something. I would never order a cheeseboard and I’ve never had one because I can’t bear parmesan or anything like brie or stilton and I have no interest in eating chunks of cheese.

Same here. Eat cheese on pizza or a cheesecake and that’s it.
I don’t eat butter or any form of spread either.

I've hated cheese since forever.
But why am I treated if there is something wrong with me.
Restaurants ask are you allergic to cheese, no i just don't like it.
Friends say, oh theres only a bit of cheese in the dish. Or just scrape it off.
Some restaurants i have looked at all the dishes and there is only one without cheese. What don't people get? My daughter hates mushrooms, but no fuss or comments made, and on a menu you can find dishes without them.
In a supermarket, I spend ages because I have to read the ingredients. Ooh salmon fishcakes, turn it over yep, there's cheese in it. A meaty gingsters pastie, you've guessed it turn it over, there's cheese in it.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Servers in restaurants, is there cheese in this dish, oh I don't know i will check.
Why isn't cheese listed as an ingredient on the front of what you want to buy.
A vegan does not have to look at the ingredients, as it is stated on the front of the product or on the menu that it is meat free. Imagine if they had to examine everything.
I just want to know why, people who hate cheese are treated as weirdos.
If you don't like fish or pork for example its accepted. So why CHEESE ???
My earliest memories is of me at infant school aged 5 and being served some sort of cheese slice. The dinner lady said I had to eat it. I said I would be sick. She forced me to take a bite and I threw up like I told her, and she was so cross with me. (This was (1967) it has stuck in my memory forever.
So why cant people understand?
I accept when someone says they don't like something.
I wouldn't dream of making them eat it, or just say scrape it off.
So why is CHEESE such a problem?
Please enlighten me.
Im 64 and still a pariah.
Please give up telling us we must like cheese!!!

Yes I’m the same. I dont like any cheese that actually tastes of cheese. Mozarella is OK and very mild cheddar with other flavours but I would never eat cheese on toast or macaroni cheese and a cheese board is my worst nightmare. Disgusting smelly cheese turns my stomach.

My mum also hated cheese (although my dad and siblings love it) and my DD had CMP allergy as a baby which she grew out of and now she likes cheese. Maybe there is a cheese refusenik gene?

My sister's weird. She'll eat plain cheese, but not cooked. No pizza, cheese sauce, toasted cheese sandwiches...

DH hates cheese,says he allergic to it? Then orders cheesecake,

Ive not eaten cheese in 3 year.
Along with chocolate.
Or anything that contains the above.
And many other things.
Its a trigger for a migraine one bite 3 days of hell and my head in the toilet.

I really like some cheeses but dairy is a total IBS trigger for me so can't have it unless I know I won't be leaving the house for the next 24 hours. Since developing this affliction tho', I have begun to think how weird our dairy consumption is; drinking and eating the product another species makes to feed its babies. When I think of it like that, I really don't mind not having dairy.