/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'm like this too, I am slightly overweight but I know it's from alcohol - all that craft beer has to go somewhere. Anyway, I think it's white people genetics, think of it in the context of traditional diet and recall the world used to be rather colder not so long ago in geologic terms. The traditional white diet would have been defined by the extremely cold weather, cold weather causes crop failures in basically everything but winter wheat. Animals keep themselves warm if you keep them out of the wind and give them the dried grass you saved up just for that. Milk comes from animals, cheese was probably originally a way of making milk keep longer just as (very light in comparison to ours) beer was a way of disinfecting water. These unpredictable crop failures also caused their obsession with what appear to clocks of sorts, they obsessed over the weather, the Viking world ends with Ragnarok, a distinctly non-apocalyptic event in which everyone dies, everything freezes and life just stops. This is probably also why the early mastery of warfare (and thus technology: necessity is the mother of invention), they had to raid other settlements for what they couldn't produce that year due to early snow or strong hail. While the rest of the world lay in it's crib of warm river valleys we were brutally slaughtering each other in the snow simply and ultimately because there was so much snow.

That tale told, my favorite cheese is a variant of the Azoreian Sao Jorge called St.George, it's only made on one farm in California but if you can get ahold of it do so - it's a fusion of everything good about cheddar and romano or parm. I know what you're thinking, it sounds like a meme, but this time the flavors truly fuse into a whole new cheese.

https://www.cowgirlcreamery.com/library-of-cheese/st-george