Yorkie1955 t1_iuaahqu wrote on October 29, 2022 at 7:56 PM Reply to ELI5 - Blue cheese - how did humanity invent it? by TapZxK As above, basically an accident with stored cheese, but you couldn't afford to throw it away in the middle ages. The same goes for many historical recipes where the initial object was to use up food that had imperfections. Permalink 5
Yorkie1955 t1_iuaahqu wrote
Reply to ELI5 - Blue cheese - how did humanity invent it? by TapZxK
As above, basically an accident with stored cheese, but you couldn't afford to throw it away in the middle ages. The same goes for many historical recipes where the initial object was to use up food that had imperfections.