I figure the one just sat around for longer, as I've had extra blue-y cheese develop in my own fridge. Just never seen such a striking difference at the store, which I found mildly interesting.

A hand holding two packages of blue cheese in front of a grocery store shelf, one cheese has no visible spots of blue mold, while the other is covered in spots.

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[–] 86 points 9 months ago

This is moldly interesting

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  • [–] 55 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Don't buy it!!! I just grabbed (from grocery outlet) that wisconson mild blue you are holding as my s/o hates blue and I figured she could ease into it... it's disgusting!! It tastes like a mausoleum smells and turns to powder in your mouth, 0/10, do not recommend!!

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I didn't like blue cheese and my mother tried to fase me into it a few times with mild blue cheeses. Didn't work. One day a guy gave me a cube of Stilton - Colston Basset, if I recall right - and my mind was blown. The taste was strong but so good that itvsomehow clicked. Blue cheese is something difficult. I find average blue cheese awful.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'l grab a wedge, but I'm blaming you if she hates it! (thank you for the suggestion)

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  • [–] 48 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    The "bluer" one looks just plain moldy to me. Not with the good kind, I mean.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    yeah I don't like that there is what appears to be moisture inside the bluer ones packaging

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    Absolutely a bad sign. I have eaten a LOT of different blue cheeses throughout the years, including blue cheeses with the "wrong" mold on accident, and I absolutely guarantee that the bluer one is the wrong mold. You don't take a bite out of that shit without making sure you're never making that mistake again...

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Bho I’ve eaten basic Roquefort or even Gorgonzola looking more blue than this… are you using American blue-cheese scale or the European one? Sometimes it’s so blue it’s becoming green-ish but it’s still a treat.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I've only ever eaten european blue cheeses, and a great variety of them. It's not just about the blue colour, it's about the hairyness of the mold, the exact tint of blue that is in the picture, and the spread. The mold in the picture isn't good.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    No one can see it well enough from these pictures, still in it's packaging, to be able to tell any of that.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Actually I do see bad mold, but it's all over the other cheese, it's super hairy and white so it's hard to tell, but yeah, I can tell, that lighter one is no good! Seriously, you'll die if you even smell it, I can see it! I've eaten so much cheese

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Why are you making such a fuzz out of this? Is it that hard, to be told someone else knows something you apparently don't?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    Fun fact, if you look hard enough you can actually smell how evil the cheese is! I can tell that cheese on the left is gonna be super dry and crumbly from the texture, which I can feel through the picture, with my eyeballs.

    I just like to try to get some of the light of reality to the people stuck in the shadows of their own Dunning-Kruger Effect fantasies. It's almost always completely fruitless, but it doesn't hurt anybody and, if it works, the world is that much less insufferable.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Softer cheeses often have moisture in/on them. Even some older "dry" cheeses can have a lot of moisture on the outside. I just had an 18-year cheddar this weekend and it looked like a slimy petri dish on the outside, but goddam that shit was fantastic.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (18 children)

    blue cheese has mold in it never forget

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    That's why it's so tasty 🥰

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    Which has always been confusing to me because I thought mold is bad to eat, like poisonous & tummy aches, possibly death

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe just a specific variety of mould that doesn't cause that.

    There are 2 varieties of milk bacteria that make curd and yoghurt. Then a few varieties of yeast for bread, beer etc.
    Makes sense to be one for cheese.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I use molds to ferment vegetables (think sauerkraut, but with squash, or cauliflower, or fennel, or leek...), to make soda (kombucha, often with apples or blackberry), to bake bread.
    Coffee beans are fermented, too. And many other foodstuff.
    Bacterias are our best friends. So tasty.

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    That's interesting that they look so different, but both look absolutely delicious. Weird how apparently some people in this comment section are unfamiliar with the concept of cheese.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Blue cheese is actually very tasty if you find the right one. I've tasted very awful ones and very tasty ones.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Sam Rothstein would be pissed.

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