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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Blue cheese dip.
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 13:30:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-09, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> ...
>> People like to use blue cheese of one sort or another as an
>> ingredient.  Everybody's different.
>
>   they do, but often it makes no sense to me.
>
>   like i used to try it in different dishes, but found
> that for the most part when melted and included in
> other things it had very little of the flavor or 
> sharpness that i liked about it.  so i stopped wasting
> it that ways and only have it cold in things i want it
> to be prominent in.  salad dressing and crumbled on top
> right at serving is now how i do it.

I don't like blue cheese at all.  My husband only likes it
cold.

>   i don't know if anyone else notices or cares about
> this sort of issue, but i sure do since it is a fairly
> expensive item.

Perhaps people like the mellowing effect of combining it
with other ingredients.  And, of course, not everybody cares
that it's "fairly expensive".  The store brand is about
$12/pound.  Stilton at Amazon is about $25/pound.  Gorgonzola
is about the same price at various places.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton