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?

If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be cheese. I couldn’t be with someone who didn’t like cheese but luckily my husband’s idea of a GREAT night in involves copious amounts of cheese.

FWIW, I feel the same about desserts as you do about cheese OP. I like some; they’re nice. Would I want a night based around them? Absolutely not. I wouldn’t miss dessert if I never ate it again, but without cheese my life would be meaningless.

I love good cheese, good wine, good coffee, good chocolate, on repeat.

You hate alcohol as well as not being a cheese fan OP? No hope for you then !

As we're on this thread, may I introduce my fellow cheese lovers to The Fine Cheese Company in Bath. They do an amazing delivery service and sell lots of lovely food besides cheese. Great for hampers/Xmas gifts. Their potted Stilton is amazing!

A good cheese board beats a box of chocolates hands down

@ClaraThePigeon - Chocolate, passionate about good chocolate.

Like cheese a lot
Won a box of vegan "cheese" in a raffle today😫

Not unreasonable, but unfathomable! I would live off cheese if I could.
Caveat; cottage cheese, haloumi, mozarella and ricotta are masquerading as cheeses. They are just white, chewy, tasteless and stringy bits of cooked milk. God help anyone who offers haloumi fries....

Cheeeeese, it just tastes so good! I married into a family of cheesemakers, the Christmas cheeseboards are amazing!

How can anyone not love a nice mature cheese?

I find it fascinating how many posters on this thread think a cheese board is a generic thing you buy in Tesco and must have a brie and stilton or a goat cheese on it!

It's like saying to a bunch of wine wine connoisseurs that all wine is shit cos you bought a £3.50 bottle of Bucksfizz!!!

The beauty of a great cheeseboard is it has the cheeses you like. Whether that be a standard cheddar to a really fancy cheddar from a deli!

I don't like smelly sock cheese, but a cheese board with nuts, grapes, figs & chutney is my favourite food of all between Christmas & New Year.

In my heart of hearts, given the choice, i'd miss out the roast Turkey dinner, add a few pigs in blankets to the cheeseboard & spend Xmas in a cheesy coma.

Anyone care to join?

No. Nob cheese is going too far.

Re wine - I don't have a sophisticated wine palate either, but I can taste the difference between very cheap plonk and something a bit m ore decent, but I doubt very much that I could taste the difference between a bottle that cost £20 and one that cost £100.

If it was up to me I wouldn’t bother with a Turkey at Christmas, I’d just have a giant cheese board with a side of pigs in blankets.

Most people love afternoon tea but I don’t like it at all. I wish they’d do Afternoon Cheese instead.

Tbf this is basically my plan for Christmas eve dinner

I like cheese in the way that some people like chocolate or wine. Plenty of people rave about those too, and neither have the diverse cheesy delights of a cheeseboard.

cheeses come in so many flavours and textures and varieties - it’s not hard to see why those of us with a basic predilection toward cheese can get overly enthusiastic about the many ways you can present and encounter different types of cheese.

DD1 has asked for a cheese board Christmas Eve - I LOVE Cheese - so many nice ones out there - we are having a mature cheddar, Wensleydale, Red Leicester, Brie and Stilton with cranberry, pickled onion, pickled red onion relish etc and lots of crackers and French bread - yummy

I also love wine - but while I like the flavour of different wine I couldn't tell you the difference between one for £8+ and one for £100+ - I buy most of mine from Aldi.

I always choose the cheese board over pudding because I don't have a sweet tooth and I like strong flavours

yabu

I was indifferent towards cheese until I had the luck of flying first class with Emirates and I got served THE most amazing cheese platter ever, with all the sides like dried fruit, nuts, grapes, a fig and nuts salami shaped kind of thing, all to be washed down with Dom champagne, it was divine!

Well you don’t like cheese, so you obviously wouldn’t be into it

It’s like being puzzler that some people like a wine tasting or belong to a posh chocolate club

My foray into veganism was short lived, because... cheese.
A life without cheese is no life.

A friend had a cheese cake for her wedding - ie cake stands with lots of different cheeses.. Twas marvellous

Cheese would definitely stop be from going vegan. Can you imagine going out for a Christmas meal and someone with who ordered a cheese board?

I wouldn't eat huge chunks on it's own, so sickly. I do like it on crackers etc. My favourite is digestives biscuits, pickle topped by slice of extra mature cheese and slice of apple (not posh, but don't knock it until you've tried it). Also cranberry Wensleydale!!

Went there a couple of weeks ago, fabulous.