Comments on: Why is Cheese Delicious?

By: The Beautiful Kind

The Beautiful Kind — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:09:21 +0000

Cheese is addictive (think morphine) and is one of the hardest things for a vegan to give up.

From
http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm03summer/gm03summer02.html

“Cow’s milk—or the milk of any other species, for that matter—contains a protein called casein that breaks apart during digestion to release a whole host of opiates called casomorphins. A cup of cow’s milk contains about six grams of casein. Skim milk contains a bit more, and casein is concentrated in the production of cheese.

If you examined a casein molecule under a powerful microscope, it would look like a long chain of beads (the “beads” are amino acids—simple building blocks that combine to make up all the proteins in your body). When you drink a glass of milk or eat a slice of cheese, stomach acid and intestinal bacteria snip the casein molecular chains into casomorphins of various lengths. One of them, a short string made up of just five amino acids, has about one-tenth the pain-killing potency of morphine.”

By: ledretch

ledretch — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:33:27 +0000

I’m still searching why cheese is SOOOOO delicious, delightful
the shrink I work with, she says it’s some kinda relationship with my father (she loves chocolate, I told her it’s a relationship with her mother )
but you know what, I guess I won’t understand why, but we’ve got more than 400 different cheeses in France
and, oh God, Giselle_k (hi, giselle!) everything is damn’ better with cheese
except maybe chocolate

maybe I’ll do a cheesecast for seesmic ;D

By: Kyle Russell

Kyle Russell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:09:37 +0000

Stoke, turn up your volume, some of us are at work. People walking around with chainsaws in our ears. cmon man. long live the cheese.

By: Liza Pesenson

Liza Pesenson — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:48:11 +0000

cheese has this interesting taste. i dont know how to describe it. but there are strong cheeses and mild cheeses, and its that “strong” taste im thinking of. and different people like different amounts of that “strength” in their cheese. kinda like tannins in wine, people like different amounts but this stuff is what makes cheese umm…. cheesy! i really like mild cheese best so far (can i say that mike d’s moms cheese was like the most amazing thing ive ever eaten?) personally, i like mild cheese cuz its so creamy. and creamy things are fatty and delicious!

By: Bear Ride

Bear Ride — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:53:37 +0000

There’s nothing like spicy cheese dip! lots & lots of jalapenos. Goes great with all foods and food groups. Especially the margarita food group.

By: giselle_k

giselle_k — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:09 +0000

well, you can put cheese on your sandwich or you can put cheese on your crackers. you can make a quesadilla or some fondue. you can grate it on top of your pasta, sprinkle it on your pizza or just take bites of it. you can make cheddar stuffed mushrooms or eggplant parmesan. you can make a dip for your guests and maybe some crostinis too. you can make cheesy garlic bread or juct cheesy bread.

really, you can do just about anything you want with cheese.

so the point is, i suppose, that cheese makes everything better so it must be delicious.

here are some of my favorite cheeses:
goat cheese, dubliner cheddar, gouda, provolone (but only for deli sandwiches), parmesan and queso fresco
keep in mine i said favorite bc i really do love every cheese

always keep cheese close by,
giselle

By: stoke

stoke — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:10:56 +0000

By: Kyle Russell

Kyle Russell — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:14:03 +0000

Cheese is delish. And I say this out of the warm, cheesy center of my cloged heart. Yes, it may be the fattiness or the oiliness quite unmatched in other great snack foods. But cheese crosses the snack food line into entire entres based on cheese and gormet “I want to live in Napa valley” cheese. It goes well with anything, from salteens to the finest of wines. (Are there wine flavored salteens?)
I often ask myself: ‘Do I even like cheese?’ Then I think of all the combinations of cheese I could enjoy in mere seconds of opening my fridge and possibly a side cubbord for some wine salteens. Its really simple; I fucking love wine flavored salteens, Im just too busy at work to invent them, or soak salteens in wine. I dont even like cheese that much.

By: David Hunt

David Hunt — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:52:55 +0000

My guess would be the amazingness comes from the fattiness and oiliness that Whit mentioned. Yummy yummy cheese…

By: Whit Scott

Whit Scott — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:37:47 +0000

I know I should be answering the question, but I don’t have a good answer. I can say that I didn’t like cheese much growing up, but now I’m all about it. And I just don’t understand why it’s so good with wine. Is it delicious because it’s fatty? Or oily? Good question Drew…