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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Blue cheese dip.
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 16:14:07 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> I think that most people around here use blue cheese only as an 
> ingredient. That would be as an ingredient in a salad dressing or as an 
> ingredient in a Buffalo Wing dipping sauce.... which is usually just 
> blue cheese dressing. 

My husband likes it on top of a salad with red-wine vinaigrette,
or in blue cheese dressing.  He doesn't really consider it a snacking
cheese.

> When you go through the cheeses in the dairy aisle 
> at the grocery store there is generally only a limited amount of blue 
> cheese for sale, small amounts of only 2-3 varieties. 

It depends on the grocery store.  My regular grocery store has
two or three kinds.  The slightly more upscale store has eight.
Whole Paycheck has nine.  We used to have a real cheese shop,
but the owners retired a few years ago and it closed.

> If you are are a 
> party with a cheese platter or at a buffet there is likely no blue 
> cheese at all. 

Blue cheese is extremely divisive.  A YouGov survey of 8000 adults
found that only 4% of Americans like blue cheese.

> There may be several different cheddars, like old, mild, 
> white, orange and marble, but never more than one variety of blue.
> Personally, love it. I probably eat way too much of that high fat and 
> high salt deliciousness.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton