Re: Blue cheese dip.

On 2025-03-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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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.

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Cindy Hamilton