{"id":457,"date":"2010-12-25T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T14:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2010-12-25T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T14:30:18","slug":"more-cheeses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"More Cheeses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a little prodding via email from &#8220;CheeseMAN&#8221; and via YouTube commenting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/j90gramz\">j90gramz<\/a>, we&#8217;ve finally gotten around to this!<\/p>\n<p>Several days ago I <em>briefly<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=452\">mentioned<\/a> a TA holiday party.  Part of the party was a little gift exchange.  Mary Jo ended up with a bag of cheese.  The bag contained three cheeses that need some review-ins&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>The first cheese was our old friend Bergk\u00e4se.  Fortunately, we&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=90\">already reviewed<\/a> this (it was our first in fact), so that doesn&#8217;t need re-hashing.  It&#8217;s still tasty.<\/p>\n<p>The second cheese is blue cheese.  We kind of got rid of the labeling pretty much immediately, so I don&#8217;t know anything about it beyond that it&#8217;s blue. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/cheese\/IMG_0814.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/cheese\/IMG_0814_small.JPG\" alt=\"Blue cheese\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taste wise this thing is a mystery.  It can&#8217;t seem to decide on a taste.  One part of it is nice normal yummy blue cheese.  Another part of it tastes like mildew.  Another part is somewhere in between.  It&#8217;s the oddest thing.  I really like blue cheese.  Mary Jo isn&#8217;t as big a fan.  With this brick though, she&#8217;s the fan and I&#8217;m kind of indifferent.  So I don&#8217;t know what to tell you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/cheese\/IMG_0813.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/cheese\/IMG_0813_small.JPG\" alt=\"Other Cheese\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The third cheese is Le Gruy\u00e9re SwitzerLand.  The most defining characteristic of this cheese is that it&#8217;s super hard.  It&#8217;s not difficult to chew or anything, but it almost has a satisfying &#8220;snap&#8221; to it when you bite in.  It&#8217;s actual quite pleasant in a strange way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The taste is a different matter.  It doesn&#8217;t taste bad by any stretch of the imagination; to be honest, it doesn&#8217;t really taste like anything at all.  It&#8217;s not even remotely sharp, it&#8217;s not sweet, and it&#8217;s not smokey.  It&#8217;s just&#8230; cheese.  All the texture is there of a really nice cheese, there&#8217;s just no taste to it.  This is doubly confusing because it&#8217;s got a bit of a stink to it.  You would really expect a cheese this stinky to have at least <em>some<\/em> flavor, but it&#8217;s just not there.<\/p>\n<p>So, do we like it?  Yes.  We do.  The texture and hardness of it are so nice to chew on that you really don&#8217;t care that there&#8217;s no huge flavor with it.  Heck, slap it on a cracker and enjoy the cracker&#8217;s flavor.  It&#8217;s a little on the spendy side, but I can see us buying it for ourselves in the future.  It won&#8217;t be an &#8220;everyday&#8221; cheese, but it will make an appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a little prodding via email from &#8220;CheeseMAN&#8221; and via YouTube commenting from j90gramz, we&#8217;ve finally gotten around to this! Several days ago I briefly mentioned a TA holiday party. Part of the party was a little gift exchange. Mary Jo ended up with a bag of cheese. 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