• @marshadow
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    I would willingly get into a windowless white van if you told me there was aged Gouda inside.

    • @boeman
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      311 year ago

      windowless white van

      That sounds difficult to drive.

    • Allseer
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      61 year ago

      how convenient, you should have a look in the back. sorry no rear passenger doors you’re gonna have to squeeze past this folding seat.

  • Flying Squid
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    611 year ago

    For those who didn’t get the reference:

  • LegionEris [she/her]
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    Tbh I’m not really a cheese girl. Give me fancy tomatoes. Fancy tomatoes will hold my attention.

      • LegionEris [she/her]
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        No favorite. All tomatoes are good tomatoes. Raw, sliced, lightly salted, maybe a a little pepper or paprika.

          • LegionEris [she/her]
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            Both of the responses to this seem to assume that my love of tomatoes comes from Italy or Italian culture. It comes from the American deep south, much closer to where tomatoes actually come from. Adding oil or extra ingredients takes away from the moist, cooling nature of a tomato on a hot summer day. A tomato is bursting with refreshment. All you gotta do is let it out.

          • Franklin
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            51 year ago

            All of these but on a good slice of focaccia

      • Otter
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        71 year ago

        Curious too

        I like tomatoes, but don’t know what makes a tomato good or bad

        • @[email protected]
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          Store-bought tomatoes are designed to ripen at exactly the same time, get picked early, be sturdy during transit to the produce store and store for a longer time on store shelves.

          Heirloom tomatoes are selected to taste good when grown in your region.

          No tomato can do it all, so when selecting for store bought tomato characteristics, flavor gets lost in the shuffle.

        • LegionEris [she/her]
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          I’m not a tomato snob. All tomatoes are good tomatoes. A fancy tomato to me is pretty much anything you can’t regularly get in any old grocery store. Go into any fancy supermarket or natural grocery store and get any tomato that looks more interesting than your average tomato. I’ll get excited about it.

          • @pikmeir
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            41 year ago

            Try some kumamoto tomatoes and I think you’ll really like them. They have a more tangy taste, almost like they’re pre-salted.

      • @kiwifoxtrot
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        Brandywine Pink is the best, hands down.

    • @kiwifoxtrot
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      71 year ago

      I just had tomato sorbet for the first time in my life and it changed me. It tasted like the pure essence of a fresh homegrown tomato.

  • @garbagebagel
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    Paillot de chévere. Local cheese man got me hooked on it.

  • @hansl
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    Haven’t seen anyone mention this one, so let’s go.

    The most fascinating cheese would be Casu Martzu (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu). It is illegal to produce and consume pretty much everywhere, including in Sardinia where it is produced and was invented. It is the world most dangerous cheese, and people have died eating it.

    The Wikipedia articles goes into how it is produced, but essentially you leave a good old pecorino outside with some rind removed to allow flies to put their eggs in the cheese. The larvae then consume the cheese and ferment it further. You need to eat it while the larvae are still alive, although the larvae can survive your digestive system and grow in our intestine. Traditionally you should eat the maggots, but you don’t have to.

    I would never eat it, mind you, but it is definitely fascinating that such a thing exists.

    • @reagansrottencorpse
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      Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,[4][12] diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping.

    • @shandrakor
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      Apparently you need to wear safety glasses to cut it because the maggots leap at you, while the cheese weeps salty tears.

  • @BlueAlienSmut
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    Things happen to me when I get a little Humboldt Fog in my mouth

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      If you haven’t tried it yet check out the Truffle Tremor. It’s Humboldt Fog with truffle, usually promoted around the holidays. - ex-cheesemonger

    • @Soku
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      31 year ago

      Dorstone Ashed seems similar in UK, a fine choice indeed

    • @CM400
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      31 year ago

      Do you prefer it young, or with some age on it?

      • @BlueAlienSmut
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        It gets especially funky when its aged some. Big fan!

  • meow
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    “You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.”

  • Margot Robbie
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    Brie. It’s soft and buttery rich on the inside, with a white moldy rind that tastes kind of fruity on the outside.

    It’s such a contradiction of flavors that I often lay awake at night, wondering about how does a cheese as facinating as brie could exist.

  • @CherryRedDragon
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    Boursin. I’ll do positively filthy things for that spreadable delight. And pretty much anything for the cheese too ;)

    • @Evia
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      51 year ago

      Garlic and herb or black pepper? Personally, I don’t mind either but my partner will only buy garlic and herb so I have to smuggle black pepper into my work lunches

      • @CherryRedDragon
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        41 year ago

        I haven’t tried the black pepper one but am always happy to be fascinated by a new cheese

  • @flummoxed_lummox
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    121 year ago

    Kraft singles–the same way I am easily fascinated by soap bubbles, the milky way, and amethyst geodes.

  • Lenny
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    121 year ago

    Red Leicester and missionary.

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      Why fuck with the classics? They work for a reason and Red Leicester is a certified pantry dropper.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Bro youre saying this like no one knows this. You know what else is mold? Mushrooms, and I bet you eat those.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 year ago

            Ah. I guess im just not hip and with it anymore. Shame this had to happen in my early twenties.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              Don’t worry, it was posted on a Facebook repost community on here a couple of weeks ago, I just happened to see it and you didn’t.

              • Call me Lenny/LeniM
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                I remember seeing that meme almost ten years ago. You couldn’t mention blue cheese in school without someone claiming it was gross because of the mold.

                I stopped participating in those memes though when they started to say margarine was made of plastic. I would later discover that was just big dairy marketing.