The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for June 29, 2023

What you call “Blue Cheese” in France is “Roquefort” and here in Italy is “Gorgonzola”. I like “Gorgonzola” but my cholesterol cry out loud and my doctor too.

Expiration dates are BS. On a box of Mac and cheese the date is 18 months out? On a can of soup 2 years? That’s the date the box and the can begin to break down, not the food inside.

Cheeses brag about their age but then put a best by date?!

Brutus: “We’re in luck! The cheese expiry date says June 30th 2023. It is still good for tonight.”

Blue cheese is just sad. Try telling it a joke.

Never touch the stuff. I only eat Canadian sharp cheddar when I do eat cheese.

I have read that if you have taken an anti-acid before eating it, the mold in blue cheese can actually kill you.

When it starts to smell like ammonia, it’s gone bad.

then why do you keep buying it… unless it’s your wife’s, unless she allows you to buy some of your own dressing then your kinda stuck. :J

Blue Cheese is on my NEVER list!

How do you tell when nattō has gone bad?

I like blue cheese salad dressing, especially if you aren’t mingy with the blue cheese.

Brutus knows .

Poor Brutus is always the guinea pig. I resemble him that way. My wife is always asking me to smell or taste something she has doubts about.

It’s your life. Go for it. Why have a bunch of food out of date? Just use it or donate it before it’s useless.

Never mind the expiration date His nose knows!

Ha! So there is Blue Food! ☺

Oi! I like blue cheese!

Brutus is not wrong. Ugh on blue cheese.

Which is Brutus’s unique way of saying that it’s OK to use the cheese…..

Go bad? It’s literally moldy cheese when you buy it.

I don’t eat cheese. I don’t like the way it looks or smells or tastes, except on pizza and only when that is still warm. I don’t imagine it goes bad very quickly. Cheese is moldy milk, basically. When people give me grief for not eating cheese, I will say, “I don’t like milk. Why would I eat it moldy?” If you have a dish and tell me I can’t taste the cheese in it, I assure you, I can. I am not proud of my picky eating, but I can’t eat stuff that makes me gag. The results are unpleasant. I do eat a varied and healthy diet.

Brutus goes on, “I knew I shouldn’t let you take those gourmet cooking classes”…

Brutus, the nose usually knows but not with Blue Cheese, instead look for green fuzzy stuff. If there is more of that than there is Blue Cheese, throw it out.

When in doubt, throw it out. Not worth the GI upset. You DO NOT want food poisoning. I’ve probably tossed many foods that were still “good”. Not worth it.

I agree with him, how could anything that tastes that bad ever be good?

Oh SO true! Sight, taste, and texture = hurl.

I think Gladys suspected the answer to her question before she asked it. Otherwise she would have tested it herself.

Thorny hit that nail right on the head!!!

wait, bleu cheese has an expiration date…?

Ranch is the way to go when dunking celery.