The Most Important (and Divisive) GMG Poll Ever

[amw]

There are three kinds of people in the world. Four if you include the cheese-hating infidels, but I'm not sure they count as human.

Brie.

[The new erato]

I like most cheeses, generally the stinkier, the better.

[North Star]

I like most cheeses, generally the stinkier, the better.

+1.
(Apart from that Norwegian stuff.  )

Oh, and one can have lactose intolerance and eat as much cheese as anyone.

[The new erato]

+1.
(Apart from that Norwegian stuff.  )

Gammelost? Yeah; I'm not keen on that.

[Moonfish]

I like most cheeses, generally the stinkier, the better.

+2

Ahhhh, European cheeses!!!   

[EigenUser]

I've always hated cheese. Not just a 'strong dislike', but a genuinely hate.

My parents discovered this when I was around two years old. I was in the backseat of the car and my mom gave me some Cheese-It crackers to eat. A couple of minutes later she hears this gurgling sound and turns around to see my face covered in orange saliva and spitting everything out.

[Sergeant Rock]

Blue, with a glass of Sauternes or Eiswein or Trockenbeerenauslese.

Sarge

[Bogey]

An apple smoked Gouda, or an aged white cheddar are my two go to's.  Others include Borough Market Stilton Blue, Roqufort Blue, and cave aged Emmenthaler.  As far as wine pairings, I tend to lean toward the bottle that my close friend opens.

[Cato]

Proud heathen and infidel here!      (Hmmm!)

No, I have always found hardened, spoiled, moldy milk disgusting.   

I have been told: "It's all in your head!" 

No, it's all in the gagging reflex when the smell hits my nose!

But let me say that my mother's favorite cheese was the (in)famous...


Limburger!   She would eat Limburger - as if everything were normal      - by putting it on rye bread for a sandwich.   0:)


That gene did not get passed along to any of us kids!

[Jay F]

No, I have always found hardened, spoiled, moldy milk disgusting.   

I know I should agree with this, as I do find milk in various forms, including some cheeses, disgusting (don't want to be anywhere near evaporated or condensed milk), but I find certain cheeses to be among my favorite foods. I love Parmigiano-Reggiano, St. Andre, and many kinds of Swiss and cheddar. I haven't made a choice in your poll yet, though, amw. It's between Brie and cheddar. I like Brie, but St. Andre is almost the same, and has more flavor. I like cheddar, but it's a large subsection with too many renditiions that are just alright. And I like Parmigiano-Reggiano more than any other cheese.

I finally went with Brie. I'm going to have some tomorrow.

[Karl Henning]

Tough call!  Couldn't go with Option 4 because, while I have significantly reduced my chees consumption for dietary reasons, I do not dislike cheese, no, not at all.  It was a close thing between Brie and Bleu, but I went for the former.

[Brian]

Every Christmas Eve, my family has cheese, crackers, and other snack nibbles for dinner.

Here (attached) are the cheeses I am bringing to Christmas this year. 

I'm also bringing a fairly inexpensive 2000 Bordeaux (Chat. Lanessan, Haut-Médoc) and a very nice Barossa shiraz for Christmas dinner. Oh, and a box of chocolate truffles that look like this:



I'm a good son. 

P.S. Blue all the way.

[Ken B]

Here's the thing.  Until you have had 9 year old, or older, small batch Canadian cheddar ...

When I was a child there were several small cheese factories in Ontario. My maternal grandparents lived near one and so I had 7, 8, 9 year old cheddar at Christmas and on visits. But the pinnacle of cheddarosity was some even older cheddar my paternal grandparents (who were very affluent) had once in a while. I think one was 11 or 12 years old. It was almost impossible to cut because it would crumble, and it would burn your mouth.

So I vote cheddar.

PS: amw. Do you think the infidels could actually be pod-people? I generally discount UFO stories, but ...

[mc ukrneal]

Give me cheese, and I will probably eat it (although some of the fresh cheeses give me a problem at the, ahem, other end, so I stopped with some of them).

And no one has mentioned Wensleydale!?!?!  And you call yourself civilized...

[Brian]

And no one has mentioned Wensleydale!?!?!  And you call yourself civilized...

Venezuelan beaver cheese!

[Ken B]

Venezuelan beaver cheese!

Oh no. NO. We are NOT going to start up the Canadian vs Venezualan beaver debate again! We won, it's over, finished. No more bloodshed.


Speaking of Canadian beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0

[Sergeant Rock]

Speaking of Canadian beaver

Sarge

[Gurn Blanston]

Love cheese, all sorts of cheese; soft cheese, hard cheese, medium cheese, smelly freakin' cheese, cheese that has that tinge of an odor of a night well spent; cheese!

I picked Brie, it smells like fish and tastes like heaven!   0:)

[Fagotterdämmerung]

I picked brie, mostly as a representative of my favorite family of cheeses. But, my heart belongs to pie d'angloys. And probably my coronary.

[SonicMan46]

I like most cheeses, generally the stinkier, the better.

Agree - I picked blue cheese; my tastes have changed over the decades; in my 20s, milder cheeses (cheddar, gouda, edam, etc.) was my preference but w/ age & experience, my cheese palate has expanded.  On the eves this year, we will have some snack dinners which usually include cheeses, caviar (buy Paddlefish now),  and smoked salmon & trout w/ appropriate crackers, thin breads, & spreads; of course, along w/ some sparkling wine.

The cheeses will likely be a 'yellow' one, havarti w/ dill, and possibly a favorite of ours, gloucester stilton, as shown below - boy, tomorrow night the first eve - Dave