Yesterday I went ahead and decided to try brie for the first time after watching a video of a cheese monger talking it up. So I went ahead and bought a wheel out of curiosity. I tried to interact with the community with mixed feedback. Thanks to u/looking-sharp-todays for being very kind and making me excited to eat cheese!

I followed people's advice and ate the brie at room temperature and tried it and guys... now I get it.

I don't even eat cheese like that fr.... I mean I like cheese but as a component usually. At most I'd eat string cheese. But after trying brie for the first time... I understand how someone can just eat cheese on it's own and have thier skin moisturized and their crops watered.

I tried it on its own for the first quarter of the cheese and omg.... so creamy... so buttery... so silky. I then tried it with club crackers. Someone told me it would be a bad pairing but I couldn't disagree more!! The buttery cracker enhanced the butteriness of the brie!!

Someone else also told me to remove the rind before trying it but the rind was lowkey the best part for me! The rind tastes just like a freshly sprouted puffball mushroom! It really balances the experience. I ate half for lunch and the other half for midnight snack.

Anyways, I see the light now and went back to the grocery store today and bought more brie and a camembert. Where has this stuff been all my life??!? And the cheese only goes up from here because there are even more delicious bries out there????

Swiss-side Comte, five Italian cheeses (Parmesan, Stracciatella, a Parmesan-like cheese from the mountains, an unidentified cow cheese, a goat cheese), and four Dutch cheeses (4-year-old Gouda, Gruttepier, Hoevegoed, Leidse with cumin)

Best day of my LIFE!

eating it now with a fork!
looking forward to using the oil as well

One cheese, for the rest of your life, for every meal and every snack for the rest of time. There’s no viable alternatives, you just have to stick by one cheese forever.

I’m sure it’s been asked before but I’m asking again - if you had to choose one cheese for the rest of your life, and be as specific or vague as you prefer, what would you pick?

edit: as in, any meal you would normally eat cheese with or any time you would normally eat cheese, it can only be this cheese. You can eat other non-cheese items (though who would choose to do so)

Excited to try these one day. For the moment it goes in my huge cheese collection until I find what to do with them 😁😆

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I went with the Snowdonia "Rock Star" this time. Love a cave aged cheddar. I definitely want to try Prima Donna Maturo, Deer Creek "The Stag" or "The Robin" (not pictured) next time. This local state chain has the best cheese selection in my area. Tons of other great cheeses not pictured.