What is Weichkaese?
Is this a speciality (German?) cheese?
The reason why I ask is that I'm confused... Weichkaese is also the German generic term for 'soft cheese' in general. I live in Germany, am 13 weeks pg and dh and I buy a feta imitation from our local supermarket, called 'Deutscher Weichkaese' (presumably meaning 'German soft cheese', because they're not allowed to call it feta), and eat quite a lot of it, as we consider feta safe during pregnancy. Now I've found a (British) list on the Internet which lists feta as safe but something called 'Weichkaese' as not! It's counted in the category of mould-ripened soft cheeses - the feta substitute we buy certainly isn't mould-ripened - but I'm pretty scared now as I've eaten loads of the stuff (albeit always heated up). So I'm desperately hoping 'Weichkaese' is a German gourmet brie-style speciality! I've never liked cheeses with mould rinds myself so this isn't something I've been 'confronted' with before. (My German gynaecologist thinks the listeria advice is over-panicky but I suppose you only need to catch one dodgy one...) Can anyone enlighten me?