I have an intense dislike for both the taste and smell of cheese. I cannot handle fermented curd in any form whatsoever. Keep it away from me.
Now normally, this wouldn’t be any big news. I simply don’t like a certain type of food. But for some reason, telling people that you don’t like cheese is like telling a Christian that you don’t like Christ. Suddenly people will sit with you all day, attempting to convince you from every possible angle, trying to get you to see the light. I have tried a couple of different types in various forms yet for me, cheese continues to be puke-inducing.
I just want to know why for my entire life I have been ostracized for this. I have met a few people (maybe 5) who are like me and can’t stand the stuff and they too claim to be harassed by the cheese eaters.
Can anyone explain why some treat this as such a big deal?
I think it’s just difficult to understand why someone wouldn’t like the stuff. Myself, if I were stranded on a desert island and had to choose only one food to eat for the rest of my life, it would be cheese. I really can’t fathom not liking it.
I can sympathize Tit Whistle…not with your dislike for cheese (I love the stuff), but for being ostracized for hating something and being harassed by the “lovers” of that “thing”.
For you, it’s cheese…for me soccer…let me know if you want to form a support group…
Used to work with a guy that couldn’t stand cheese. He would carp a bit every time there was an occasion where the company supplied food, because, of course, they usually manage to serve something with cheese in it. He also insisted on coming in early to an office on flextime because he wanted to leave at a “reasonable” hour in the afternoon, and had another gripe about that - he would find himself needing to interact with somebody to get his job done at some ungodly hour of the morning, and everybody else came wandering into the office at about 10 AM or so. He got very little sympathy for either personal quirk.
He probably doesn’t see the similarity. See, he didn’t make wild, unsubstantiated claims about the alleged Evilness of Cheese. He merely stated he doesn’t like it.
Where you to merely state you dislike “soccer”, Krispy, everyone would leave you alone about it. Trust me.
Now let it go. It was a rather friendly jab at yet another annoying small hijack by yourself. And you know it.
Now leave TW alone. The man wants to talk cheese, not football.
Well, I love cheese, but then my ethnic roots are Celtic and Germanic.
Outside of Europe (and Americans of European descent), you’d be hard-pressed (haw!) to find ANY cheese-eaters. Africans don’t eat cheese. Native Americans don’t eat cheese. Asians don’t eat cheese (well, Indians do, but further to the east they don’t). Beyond infancy, these folks make very little use of dairy products at all.
So hang tough. Most of the population of the planet disdains the consumption of fermented milk.
Yabob reminds me of a friend’s co-worker who has a cheese phobia. It’s not just that he doesn’t like the stuff, but is afraid of it. Of course, my friend, evil vixen that she is, delights in tormenting him by signing him for the cheese of the month club, ordering him cheese catalogs, strategically places cans of cheese whiz, the list is endless.
Who doesn’t like cheese? People who don’t know any better! Send to Newton, WI for the cold-pack if you want to learn.
Coldfire, could you please send me some Arina goat gouda? I’m about out and not in a position to drive to Dallas any time soon to get more.
Uke, Mongolians are into cheese. East African groups, too. Edward Evans-Pritchard mentions in his classic ethnography of the Nuer that they curdle their cheese with urine. Nummy!
Well, I can see I’ll be stopping by Murray’s Cheese at 257 Bleecker Street on my way to the NYC Dopefest Saturday night. Hope Wonko remembers to bring the crackers.
I don’t like cheese either. For some reason, people find it really bizarre that a person can not like cheese. Why is it such a big deal? No one raises a fuss when someone says they don’t like mushrooms or spinach, but tell them you don’t like cheese and you might as well have said you get your kicks by tossing babies out second-story windows. I’ve occasionally lied and said I was allergic to it just to get people to stop giving me grief about it.
I’ve got a friend who doesn’t like chocolate, and he gets a lot of flack for that too.
But I’ve just realised what I don’t understand about this - apart from the rudeness of these people, that is, - surely chese (and chocolate) are foods that often bring on migraine? And many people try to minimise diary consumption for general health reasons. Shouldn’t people be quite used to hearing that X won’t eat cheese, and leave it at that? And, of course, vegans aren’t going to eat cheese. It just doesn’t seem to be something that should surprise people so much, that’s all. Maybe you should adopt some widely hated foodstuff and try to force it upon all your friends. Somewhere there is a thread that refers to a “candy” consisting of pork fat covered in chocolate - now if you could get a few of those…
