AIBU to not understand the appeal of a cheeseboard?

[ClaraThePigeon]

I like some cheeses, cheddar, feta, mozzarella, halloumi and emmental for example but usually melted or as part of a dish. I don’t really understand the appeal of eating big pieces of cheese and I can’t stand brie or blue cheese.

Yet people positively go into raptures over cheese. It seems to be a positive obsession with some. A friend is incredulous at my relative indifference over cheese and wanted to give me an expensive cheeseboard so I could share her obsession but though incredibly kind of her it’d be wasted on me.

I’m a big believer in each to their own but I wonder what it is about cheese in particular that makes so many people positively evangelical about it?

Cheese.

more cheese

With a side of cheese

It's because you don't like cheese.

Cheese is lovely food and the taste variation you can get is pretty amazing. It's a high craft food IMO.

Yabu

Cheese is amazing. Getting different cheeses to try is the best part of Christmas. There’s literally 1000s of different ones.

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It's the cheese

Cheeseaholic here.

Cheeeeese glorious cheese!!

I’m trying to think of other foods/drinks that so many people are this passionate about and I can’t think of that many beyond wine and beer/real ale.

Cheese, followed by cheese.

Well of course you won't understand it if you don't like cheese, OP.
Just eat what you like and let others eat what they like. And don't overthink it any more.

Cheese is life. Yabvvvvvu

Oh man
I want a cheese board , with some chutney and crackers
nommmmmmmmm

YABU. Cheese is amazing! (Although I’m with you on the blue cheese).
But yeah. Cheese. I now want cheese.

YABU - very!

Well of course you won't understand it if you don't like cheese, OP.
Just eat what you like and let others eat what they like. And don't overthink it any more.

MN would be near dead if no one questioned anything that they didn’t like or agree with. It’s a light discussion. I’m curious to know if others feel the same and also what it is about cheese in particular that inspires such devotion. I promise that I’m not wrestling Camembert from cheese lovers’ hands.

You wash your mouth out OP.

I'm the same about cake and desserts. People get so excited by them, but I find most far too sweet and sickly.

Cheeseboard for me every time.

So you don’t like cheese and don’t understand why people who like cheese might like to eat…..cheese.

I don’t eat meat so a board of cold cuts doesn’t look yummy to me, but I can at least understand that other people want to eat it.

Cheese with nobs on

Nothing better than a quality cheese board with some nice crusty bread or some crackers and a bottle of red wine or port. I could sit all night grazing.

As PP mentioned there are 1000s of varieties of cheese with distinct flavour profiles. I suppose it is comparable to wine in that regard. The cheeses you mentioned don’t have much of a flavour compared to some so it’s perfectly reasonable that you don’t want to eat a block of it.

I love cheese so I enjoy a cheeseboard. Cheese is a uniquely varied food so a good cheeseboard gives a range of tastes and textures to enjoy. If you don’t like cheese then obviously a cheeseboard will have limited appeal.

with cheese 🧀