Is eating moldy cheese ok? Who knew it depends on the kind of cheese?

[Haole Girl]

What did people do before computers? I guess they talked with each other! lol

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/an01024

[comrade snarky]

1. Interesting but...

When the article ends with a warning not to eat any raw milk cheese, ever. I have to take it with a grain of salt. If raw milk cheese were that dangerous most of Southern Europe would have died years ago.

Or at least be the world biggest consumers of Milk of Magnesia.

I can see tossing out the Ricotta but blue? Blue cheese is mold. Delicious, delicious mold.

[Haole Girl]

2. I thought that was interesting too...

and wondered why Monterey Jack cheese was on the list.

:shrug:

[tjwmason]

14. All the best cheese is unpasteurised

Comments like those in the article make me disregard everything else that's said.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Well, cheese IS mold... n/t

[Haole Girl]

4. I know!

:P

[Xipe Totec]

5. If it grew moldy at home,

chances are, you've already been exposed to whatever is growing on the cheese (so, probably safe).

If it was moldy when you got it home from the store, then it could be something new (so, probably unsafe).

[bonemachine]

6. muenster

One of my favorite cheese moments is the short period of time before a muenster starts to mold. For the last couple days, it will pick up an aroma that really reminds me of strawberries, and complements the whole cheese really, really well. Then, if you fail to eat it, you've got a moldy cheese before the week is out :D

[Haole Girl]

7. I didn't realize...

thanks for the warning.

[bonemachine]

10. not so much a warning

as a statement of delight :D

where are you in hawaii? I just spent 6 weeks on kauai and 7 on oahu!

[Haole Girl]

13. I don't live in Hawaii...

(only in my dreams).

Unfortunately, I'm in N. Texas (DFW area).

We are expecting snow tomorrow, here. :cry:

[GoneOffShore]

8. Eat the cheese-You could fall under a bus

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. I had a friend who ate a Subways crab salad sandwich...

...this was years ago, I don't even know if they make crab salad sandwiches anymore.

Anyway...fake crab dressed up with a bucket of mayo. Only problem?

She ate half of it, stuck the other half back in the bag, put it UNDER THE CAR SEAT in the middle of SUMMER, rolled up the WINDOWS, and came back several hours later and finished it.

So eating moldy cheese is more OK than under-the-car-seat sammiches.

For what it's worth, she did this kind of stuff all the time...this was not an isolated incident...it is simply how she ate.

:rofl:

[lutefisk]

11. That sounds like a parable . . . just can't figure out what it means...n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. OK? Eating moldy cheese -- yes. CUTTING the moldy cheese -- OMG WTF?!?!?

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I mean, it's OK by me... but it's not OK "BY" me (from what others tell me).
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