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AIBU to not understand the appeal of a cheeseboard?

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ClaraThePigeon · 16/12/2023 12:35

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?

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LBFseBrom · 16/12/2023 18:55

Poblano · 16/12/2023 12:46

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.

Me too! I could happily live on cheese and tomatoes.

RainBow725 · 16/12/2023 19:11 
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                      Edam 
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                       Brie
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Undethetree · 16/12/2023 19:49

Greenpolkadot · 16/12/2023 12:48

Cheese with nobs on

This.

Nobs with cheese on however.....to be avoided.

Roiesin57 · 16/12/2023 20:09

It's the cheese, crackers, chutney, 🍇 & port, on my lovely cheese board with a little drawer to house the different 🧀 knives

LapinR0se · 16/12/2023 20:15

Roiesin57 · 16/12/2023 20:09

It's the cheese, crackers, chutney, 🍇 & port, on my lovely cheese board with a little drawer to house the different 🧀 knives

This sounds just LOVELY

5foot5 · 16/12/2023 20:17

MrsSchrute · 16/12/2023 12:46

You wash your mouth out OP.

I had to do that once when my DH persuaded me to try some Roquefort. I do like cheese, just not blue cheese. But he insisted this particularly cheese was so wonderful I would be bound to like it if I tried it.

Well all I can say is that spitting it out wasn't enough. I had to literally wash my tongue.

Yet I do like most cheese. I have even made it a couple of times.

LapinR0se · 16/12/2023 20:18

On my perfect cheeseboard is:
mild end: creamy soft goat’s cheese
medium: runny Camembert and an aged Gruyère
strong: Roquefort and époisses

with charcoal crackers, water biscuits, oat crackers, crackers with dried fruit and nuts in, quince jelly, fig chutney, truffle honey, some excellent nuts.

And PORT and SAUTERNES.

BIossomtoes · 16/12/2023 20:29

Cheese is the one and only reason I could never be vegan. I could live on it.

seagull82 · 16/12/2023 20:54

ClaraThePigeon · 16/12/2023 12:58

Are you young OP? You may develop a taste for it as you age.

I wish. I’m in my late 30s but you’re right it is possible that it may have increasing appeal now that I’m verging on middle age.

Very possible.. I have always hated coffee until 2 years ago, caught covid and can't get enough of it. Still can't smell a single thing though!
Have always loved cheese, one of the best things about Christmas is all the nice cheese boards in my opinion.

MrsHamlet · 16/12/2023 21:04

I'm very excited about my Christmas cheese delivery - no disgusting blue, all chosen because I love them.

Etivaz
Dorstone
Baron Bigod
St Andrew's cheddar
Winslade
Rollright
Yorkshire Pecorino
Summer field alpine

Delicious.

Christmas eve fondue and new year's eve raclette are much more eagerly anticipated than whatever is for Christmas dinner.

aramox1 · 16/12/2023 21:05

Spend more

VeganNugsNotDrugs · 16/12/2023 21:07

YABU and i say that as a vegan

LauderSyme · 16/12/2023 21:30

This thread is hilariously full of cheesevangelicals😂

Q/. Why Cheese?

A/. Because Cheese!

I think because it's so wonderfully satisfyingly creamy and buttery and cheesey and probably almost entirely composed of saturated fat.

I still audibly groan with pleasure remembering sublime cheeses I scoffed decades ago. That Roquefort salad... that baked camembert... that Swiss Fondue...!

Understanding the appeal of the cheeseboard may be like faith in God:

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

With apologies to St Thomas Aquinas.

RedToothBrush · 16/12/2023 22:06

LauderSyme · 16/12/2023 21:30

This thread is hilariously full of cheesevangelicals😂

Q/. Why Cheese?

A/. Because Cheese!

I think because it's so wonderfully satisfyingly creamy and buttery and cheesey and probably almost entirely composed of saturated fat.

I still audibly groan with pleasure remembering sublime cheeses I scoffed decades ago. That Roquefort salad... that baked camembert... that Swiss Fondue...!

Understanding the appeal of the cheeseboard may be like faith in God:

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

With apologies to St Thomas Aquinas.

Of course. Cos cheese is food of the gods.

IsitReallySoooBad · 17/12/2023 00:10

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but black bomber cheddar 😍

MasterBeth · 17/12/2023 00:31

PermanentTemporary · 16/12/2023 13:56

@ClaraThePigeon you might be a supertaster or have a generally sensitive palate?

Congratulations to whoever tried rebranding fussy eaters as "supertasters" but I'm not having it.

Liking bland mild hard cheese is not a superpower.

You need a mature Cheddar (like a Lincolnshire Poacher), a strong blue (Stichelton - the unpasteurised cousin of Stilton) and a runny Brie to make the perfect cheeseboard.

A "sensitive palate" is just a cowardly way to describe childish tastes. Stick to the Dairylea triangles if you must, but don't try and tell the rest of us that we're wrong for loving proper cheese.

Waitingfordoggo · 17/12/2023 00:34

Congratulations to whoever tried rebranding fussy eaters as "supertasters" but I'm not having it.

😂

caringcarer · 17/12/2023 01:00

DH and I both adore cheese.

ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees · 17/12/2023 01:29

I'm not a fussy eater but loath cheese and eggs in all their forms.

Don't understand the love at all, smell, texture and taste don't appeal to me at all.

coxesorangepippin · 17/12/2023 01:33

I totally agree

Cheese is ok, but overrated

EvilRingahBitch · 17/12/2023 01:52

YANBU OP, they're all weirdos.

Fortunately cheese is terrible for the environment, ludicrously high in calories and probably not very good for me, so I don't feel any need to train myself to like it.

Imthefairyonthetree · 17/12/2023 04:33

Greenpolkadot · 16/12/2023 12:48

Cheese with nobs on

errrr no thank you

Coffeeandcatsforlife · 17/12/2023 04:43

“Does anybody else miss cheese?” Yes grampie rabbit, it’s cheese!

gooddayruby · 17/12/2023 13:05

I opened this thread just as I was tucking into a big fat slab of Wensleydale 😂