# Feta cheese **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820 "2011-02-18T16:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/1 "2011-02-18T16:41:29Z")
How do you serve it when adding it to a salad? Grim [Edit] 100 characters per poll options - what a gyp!! Option three should of course read “With a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam” ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/2 "2011-02-18T16:50:50Z")
I voted “cumbled”. I assumed that was some sort of tumbled/crumbled version. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/3 "2011-02-18T16:54:27Z")
Moving thread/poll from IMHO to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/4 "2011-02-18T17:12:00Z")
Cumble: To destroy. That’s how I like my cheese… ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/5 "2011-02-18T17:51:04Z")
I do it Greek-style - a big slab on top of the salad. Pretty much like [this](http://www.closetcooking.com/2007/08/greek-salad-horiatiki-salata.html). ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/6 "2011-02-18T22:09:57Z")
I take the package, toss it into the garbage and make sure it gets taken out promptly. I am sensitive to a chemical in goat products that makes everything goat smell like goat urine. I cant get anything neat my face the smell is abhorrent. I refuse to have the crap in my house. No goat dairy anything, no goat meat, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/7 "2011-02-18T22:10:40Z")
Diced _or_ crumbled, depending on the dish. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/8 "2011-02-18T22:17:24Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I do it Greek-style Would never guess that from your name. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/9 "2011-02-19T03:09:27Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I do it Greek-style So…how you doing? ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/10 "2011-02-19T03:14:48Z")
Cubed. I want to impale it properly with the fork. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/11 "2011-02-19T03:18:26Z")
Cubed if I’m going to marinade it in oil and seasonings before adding it to the salad, shredded if I’m just going to let it mingle with the dressing. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/12 "2011-02-19T03:21:13Z")
I can’t bare being around the stuff either. Ghastly foul funk permeates the very photons lighting the table with the excrescence of fetid and offallic goat cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/13 "2011-02-19T03:28:04Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I do it Greek-style - a big slab on top of the salad. Pretty much like [this](http://www.closetcooking.com/2007/08/greek-salad-horiatiki-salata.html). The only dish and way I ever eat feta (oddly, the written recipe below the pic says “crumbled,” but as-pictured is the way to go). ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/14 "2011-02-19T05:12:18Z")
I generally love goat cheese, I’ve had several varieties and enjoy them all. Except feta. I like the texture a lot, but for some reason I can’t get past the stomach acid taste. I don’t eat cheese much any more since I try to avoid non-vegetarian rennet, but I just never could deal with feta anyway. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/15 "2011-02-21T13:33:51Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I do it Greek-style - a big slab on top of the salad. Pretty much like [this](http://www.closetcooking.com/2007/08/greek-salad-horiatiki-salata.html). Never seen it served like that - quite a chunk of cheese for a simple salad to cope with… ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/16 "2011-02-21T13:40:15Z")
> [@grimpixie](#): > > Never seen it served like that - quite a chunk of cheese for a simple salad to cope with… It works pretty well, actually. The salad doesn’t include lettuce, and the vegetables are cut in chunks. Easy enough to use your fork to break out a piece of the cheese with a chunk of tomato or cuke. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/17 "2011-02-21T13:40:28Z")
Crumbled with salad, cubed with watermellon. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feta-cheese/571820/18 "2011-02-21T14:01:24Z")
Depends on the salad and my mood. But I love it in any way - crumbled, cubed, grated or just a huge piece of it on top.