I Don't Like Cheese - Am I Alone?

[Yaxpac]

If I tell people that i don't like cheese they look at me like i am crazy. I can handle mozzarella on pizza or minimal amounts on a hero but that is it. I do not like any other cheese. In fact i dislike every other cheese. Any cheese with actual flavor, i do not like. I just don't understand the stinky cheese at all.

I like almost all other kinds of foods and I feel that I do have somewhat of a decent palate so it is not like i just don't try and enjoy new types of foods. I am very open minded when it comes to eating.

am I the only one out there who feels this way? It seems that everybody loves cheese...

PS. I don't like cilantro either but that is a different topic.

[TheHuntress]

You are not alone. The only way I can eat cheese is if it's cooked - weird I know. I desperately wish I liked cheese, I always feel like a picky toddler when I have to confess I don't like it. I am very open to trying new foods, I will happily eat foods considered unusual or 'gross' by others (offal, escargot, jellyfish, etc.), but I never feel less sophistocated than the moment I have to confess I don't like cheese.

*sigh*

[la2tokyo]

Wow! There's two of you! I'm surprised.

I wish I didn't like cheese. Count your blessings.

[jkw1957]

There are at least three of us. I can eat mozzarella on pizza or other pasta dishes. The sharper or more aged the cheese the worse it tastes to me. I can tolerate small amounts of melted cheddar cheese in a dish but absolutely can't stand unmelted cheese. The worse thing in the world to me is Parmesan cheese. I love milk but, I can't stand cottage cheese, sour cream or yogurt. It all taste sour to me. My whole family loves cheese, even my children.

[ipsedixit]

I don't like cheese either.

I'd much rather have a root canal without Novocain than be presented with a cheese platter for dessert.

Only times I like cheese are on pizzas (and only certain select types and combos), and on chili cheese fries.

Other than that? Niet.

[gaffk]

I too hate cilantro. (Different topic.)

But remove cheese from my diet? I'd rather not eat.

[Chinon00]

If you enjoy pizza you enjoy cheese. It's too fundamental to the dish not to. You just don't enjoy cheese served alone I guess which is fine.

[ipsedixit]

I like cheese with pizza (sometimes, as mentioned above), but not on pasta, sandwiches, burgers, hot dogs, etc.

And there are many pizzas I enjoy, no, love, that have no cheese on them. Roasted garlic, tomatoes, and arugala to name just one.

[walkerjly]

I disagree. I personally LOVE cheese, but am not a fan of COOKED cheese (though when cooked cheese is on pizza, it's pretty good). There are plenty of foods that have melted cheese that I really don't like, though I do love cheese on a cheese plate.

Cheese is fundamentally different after it melts.

[Chinon00]

So you'd like Parmigiano-Reggiano on a cheese plate but grated over pasta or risotto would be a bad idea for you?

[walkerjly]

Exactly! I never put cheese on my own plate of risotto or pasta (but I do add Parmigiano to risotto I'm serving to other people). And I love hunks of Parmigiano but itself!

I can completely understand liking melted cheese but not raw cheese since I feel the opposite.

[tanker64]

I don't like cheese. Won't eat it..... any way any shape any form. Not on pizza, not with wine. You would think i was insane.
When I mention I want a HAMBURGER NOT A CHEESE BURGER, it takes a act of God to have this simple request happen on a regular basis.
I cannot understand why, if I leave a glass of milk on the table over night, its BAD and should be thrown away..... But if I leave it there for another six months, its cheese and good again.
Makes my head hurt.

[mcnam003]

Its in a controlled environment, encouraging good bacterial growth and minimizing bad bacterial growth, completely.

[twinkey]

i like milk, ice cream, most dairy products.. even like cream cheese on some things..like cake icing..etc.. just hate the taste, texture.. love to cook with it for others.. but will not eat it..nope

[twinkey]

thank God there's another me out there. i won't eat cheese no way in any way never have and at my age never will.. i have thrown a bag of burgers back thu a drive thu windows because they had cheese on em ( @ a wendy's ) people say your unamerican cause u don't like cheese i get so mad... just don't like it...

[Chinon00]

How do you like your pizza?

[twinkey]

no cheese

[ferret]

"I Don't Like Cheese"

I'm reading the words - but they don't make sense.

[chefathome]

They certainly do not! It's almost an oxymoron. I cannot fathom not loving cheese to pieces but obviously not everyone has the same passions or tastes (which is a good thing). At any given moment I bet we have at least 8 cheeses in the fridge.

[tanker64]

I find the reactions interesting. If I said I dont eat meat, i would be a examplar of society.
I dont like cheese. I am not forcing you to hate it, I am not asking that it be removed from the supermarket, I am not inflicting my preferences on everyone. I only require that my food not have cheese. I am simply stating a personal preference.
My wife loves cheese. She learned to live with this along time ago. I probably know more about cheese than her as I often buy it for her. I have learned what she likes and dislikes and work accordingly.

[ferret]

Trust me, I'd react the same way to "I don't like meat."

[sedimental]

That would be a tough thing not to like.

[Honestly Good Food]

Just today I was thinking......A life without cheese isn't worth living....at least for me.

www.honestlygoodfood.com

[tanker64]

It does make ordering Italian food interesting........

[Yaxpac]

not really. i love seafood and i know that i am almost always safe to order seafood at an italian place as it will not have cheese.

[Heatherb]

I LOVE cheese. However, a very good friend from college hates it. The very idea of it makes her feel ill. She grew up in an Italian family, so that was kind of difficult. You're not alone!

[KaimukiMan]

I'm curious. Is it the underlying taste, the texture, the smell? All of the above? Or more an I don't know, all if it, it is too bad to even try to figure out what I don't like, I just don't like it. Are you OK with other dairy products? Yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, etc?

[Heatherb]

From what she has said, all of the above (taste, texture and smell). She has managed to find minimal usage of ricotta acceptable, but everything from grated parm on her pasta to a grilled cheese sandwich grosses her out. She loves milk and yogurt though. It baffles me a bit, to be honest because of the vast scope of her dislike. I mean, cheeses can be so varied!

But I really do hate blue cheese with a passion - even just a little will utterly ruin a dish for me. I can always taste even a hint of that sour sour taste. I guess she feels the same way about ALL cheese.

[NicoleFriedman]

For myself it's the smell and the taste. I also despise butter (gasp) but I love gelato and Greek yogurt as long as it's mixed with fruit. I actually get less grossed out by pungent cheeses that don't have a buttery taste, but that doesn't explain why I can't eat mozzy. Every now and then I will try a bite. So far the only cheese I can eat is ricotta but only in a very sweet cake to mask any remaining cheesy odor.

[tanker64]

It's the smell, taste and texture. Never worked for me. I love Ice Cream. Sour cream makes good dips and I eat yogurt frequently.

I never said it made any sense......

[Yaxpac]

nope...i don't like yogurt, sour cream, mayo, etc. i am okay with ice cream.

i would never ever drink a glass of milk on its own, yuk.

it is not the texture...it is simply the taste. and the smell of course.

[karenfinan]

yes

[rockandroller1]

+1

[Dan G]

I find it odd that someone can not like the entire range of cheese. There's such variation, from a soft and creamy St Marcelin to a rock hard mimolette, that there's almost no similarity. It's like saying you don't like chicken, beef and pork because they are all meats.

And like a few others here, if I were to stop eating cheese I may as well give up food. I have 8-10 kinds on the go at all times and eat it for at least 2 meals a day.

[NicoleFriedman]

Oy. I've gotten this before. Yes there are numerous types of cheese. However, there is a commonality- they're all fermented moldy milk products of some sort. It's not so impossible to understand that if your palate finds one cheese to be vile that it will feel likewise about most other cheeses. I should not have to explain that yes I've tasted Brie, Camembert, goat, mozzarella, hard and soft, mild and stinky... And they're all stuff of my nightmares. Sometimes "I hate cheese" means just that.

[NicoleFriedman]

You're not a true cheese hater if you like mozzarella! :) do a search fir some of my old cheese hatin' posts. Cheese is evil and it's a cheese world. Sigh. :)

[Yaxpac]

thank you nicole...i agree with all that you wrote.

[Tripeler]

In another thread, someone mentioned the expression...

"What a Friend We Have in Cheeses..."

So apparently the love of cheese bordering on the religious is fairly widespread.

[EWSflash]

The second line of the song could read-
"Christ Almighty what a treat"

[NCVeggie]

Favorite quote : "Cheese is as noble as bread and as brilliant as wine and may the three remain always the greatest tradition in gastronomy" (Anna Thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure, 1972).

[Chinon00]

Beer is approximately 3,000 years older than wine.

[briansnat]

I have one friend who hates all cheese. He is the only person I know who does. I know a lot oof people who dislike certain cheeses. I think most people turn their noses up at Limburger (I love it) and blue and goat cheeses are not enjoyed by a lot who love other cheeses.

For me, I can't think of a cheese I dislike.

[chickenbruiser]

Ooops!! I looked at the title quickly and thought it said "I don't like cheese when I'm alone"
I like cheese when I'm alone and with other people :)

[Slowdive]

I don't like cheese. Cooked, raw, by itself, in pasta or on pizza, whatever, I don't want to eat it. I've tried many different types from cheap grocery store cheddar to a bunch of different French cheeses (no idea what they all were- I guess I'm shamefully uneducated when it comes to cheese!) that a friend brought back from a trip to Paris- but it all tastes and smells like feet to me and makes me feel kind of sick. Feels like I'm chewing on a slab of fat. On the one hand it makes me feel kind of unsophisticated, on the other hand, i can't say I mind not enjoying a food that clocks in at around 120 calories for 30 g.

[Brianne920]

I don't like cheese, either......or milk, yogurt, etc. Most dairy products (not when something is made with milk or yogurt) make me feel like my tongue is wearing a sweater. Ugh.

[Delucacheesemonger]

My two eldest children have never even TASTED cheese, they will not take the plunge. Ah, the problems of parenthood

[gaffk]

And you, a cheesemonger . . .so sad.

From childhood, no matter how much cheese we had, no matter the variety, it magically disappeared overnight.

[EWSflash]

Those chillens is hateful- HATEFUL!

[erin_grogan]

Totally with you. I do eat pizza, but pretty much any other cheese based dish- melted or raw- is just gag-reflex-inducing for me. I drink milk, eat yogurt and ice cream, but I don't know, the combination of texture and flavors in just about any kind of cheese (mild to strong, it doesn't matter) is just so off-putting to me.

This is particularly tough as a vegetarian. Whenever someone plans for a "vegetarian option" more often then not it's some sort of pasta dripping in a thick white cheesy sauce. Ick.

So no, you're not alone, though in that moment when people are rolling their eyes at you and imploring you to "just try it" you're sort of out there in a world where no one else understands why you're being "so difficult about this thing that everyone else loves."

[redfish62]

I have the same reaction to insects, I don't care if they are baked broiled or deep-fried, I am not eating them.

[Veggo]

The cheese may stand alone in the nursery rhyme, but in my house I'll defend cheese until the cows come home. And the goats and the sheep, too.

[DonShirer]

The saddest tale in all the globe:
The unenlightened cheeseaphobe.
He'll never know the zesty glee
Of cheddar, Parmesan or brie.
How bleak the life if he eschew
The joy of Camembert or bleu.
But yet most say that nothing beats a
Mozz and pepperoni pizza.

[Veggo]

That will have a lot of folks smiling without having to say cheese!

[kattyeyes]

I must add to your cheesy rhyme
Though it might seem to be a crime
I don't pretend to understand
The cheeseaphobes who roam this land
But I might point out, what they eschew
Just leaves more cheese for me and you!

AWESOME post, Don! :)

[GraceW]

Yes, I do not like cheese either. It is annoying because I'll go to occasions and people get very prideful about an expensive cheese that they have.. and insist that I try it.. and I say no. They keep insisting. I keep saying no. Eventually they realize: nope, she really does not want the fancypants cheese.

I would eat any sweet over cheese.

[twinkey]

gracew i know your pain..lol. its like we are breaking the law or something.. had a heart surgeon tell me once it was the # 1 artery clooging food.. just hate the taste.... just for those who want to know for what ever reason i am white not that ..that would matter

[TheHuntress]

It's interesting reading the posts of other people who don't like cheese, which has actually made me realise I am not a huge fan of the whole dairy food group. Everything about cheese is just bad (unless it's a mild, cooked cheese as I previously mentioned), milk I can take it or leave it, as well as yoghurt. The only dairy products I actually care about are butter, cream, and of course ice cream!

[karenfinan]

I am wondering if there is an ethnic, cultural component to disliking cheese- certainly certain cuisines do not have much dairy- those of you who don't like cheese -are you from an ethnic group, cultural identity that doesn't mcuh use dairy (i.e. Japanese, Chinese?)

[GraceW]

I do not like cheese, and I am Caucasian. My ancestors were from Britain.

[NicoleFriedman]

I am an Eastern European ashkenazi Jew. My mom loves cheddar and american on burgers and yet, here I am:}

[Veggo]

I think your dislike of cheese has all to do with your vegetarianism and nothing to do with your heritage.

[GraceW]

I am actually also a vegetarian...

[Veggo]

And you buttress my point. I don't think it is fair for vegetarians to color a dialog about cheese without disclosing their broader biases.

[Brianne920]

Irish and PA Dutch- no cheese (or dairy, really) for me....and I truly love eating animals.

[gaffk]

Irish? PA Dutch? And no cheese? I can't wrap my brain around that one.

But, as I have said before, "I won't yuck your yum" (or, in this case, "yum" your "yuck")

[Brianne920]

Thank you :) And trust me, I'm the only member of my family with this odd affliction. Also- my mother is from Ireland and just a no-nonsense lady- if you didn't eat what she made, you just didn't eat. I'm only in my mid 20's now, and I vividly remember nights at the kitchen table, telling my mother she could make me sit there until I got to high school, and that macaroni and cheese would still be there. I'm pretty sure that I said I'd "rather eat bugs" more than once. That's probably why I'm a laywer now---stubborn and annoying as hell, from the get-go.

[gaffk]

As I said before, that's why there is white pizza and tomato pie . . . to each their own. Pizza with tomato and cheese was the venn diagram ;)

[Brianne920]

Love the Venn diagram idea---and love tomato pie (sans any cheese sprinkling! haha)

[Jay F]

I am coming to the conclusion that I don't like a lot of meat -- chicken became "disgusting" most recently -- but you'll need a crowbar to get the last wedge of Parmigiano-Reggiano out of my hands.

Right or wrong, I attribute certain recent upticks in food dislikes to growing older. I will be officially "old" in the spring, and I just don't feel like eating certain things anymore that I've always enjoyed.

I haven't had eggs in the house in almost a year, though I did make pasta at a friend's, and enjoyed it enormously. I don't want to be anywhere near raw onions, and will only eat them if they are practically caramelized. I recently let a chicken carcass sit in my fridge until it grew mold. I used to love to make stock. I've always preferred white meat, but this time, I didn't even want to touch the legs and thighs.

I was making a list of things to buy for coq au vin on Sunday, and when I thought about legs and thighs, I knew I just would never actually cook them. Or I'd cook them, then not eat them.

I knew an old lady who, as she got older, just stopped doing anything she didn't want to do. All she ate the year (or more) before she died was ice cream. I know because I did all her shopping.

I've been thinking about who's going to get which piece of my cookware when I die. But this is more because I have a dear friend who's dying than because of any new attitude I may be developing towards food.

Tonight for dinner: St. Andre, "good" bread (I had a girlfriend whose mother described things as "good" long before any of us knew about Ina; I got "good" from her in 1970), Bonne Maman raspberry preserves.

[Veggo]

Sure, our preferences change along the way. If you are enjoying triple cream St. Andre and good bread and raspberries, your fuel tank is high octane, and may you continue to enjoy the journey.

[cgj]

I love your old lady! More power to her--and not just about not eating food she didn't want to.
I love most cheeses, but I have to say I am not surprised at those who don't--there is plenty to dislike: sour taste + fatty mouth feel, plus notes of grass, and socks and sweet all together. I could almost talk myself out of it....almost.

[NicoleFriedman]

? I'm not and never have been a vegetarian.

[twinkey]

i am not a vegetarian in any form,, hate cheese won't eat it in any form or any way.. but don't mind cooking with it for others.. i just hate it

[TheHuntress]

Hmmm, I am Australian, born Portuguese and German, raised by Welsh and English. I am the only person in my family who doesn't eat cheese.

[karenfinan]

ah well, so much for that theory!

[EWSflash]

Except for the cheese that's got maggots living in it, I'm not sure there's a cheese I wouldn't gladly try. Love it, love it, love it.

[chefathome]

Yeah, me neither. It's called Cazu Marzu and the maggots can be so loud and plentiful you can actually hear them from several feet away. According to a book on strange foods I have the author likens the sound they make to rain!! I love rain but not maggoty-cheese rain.

Other than that, bring it on.

[cheesemonger]

To the OP: You are not alone. Don't sweat it, and don't let others pressure you. Obviously, from my moniker, I love it enough to make it my career.

But the world turns 'round on our differences. The worst thing is when people genuinely do not like it, but keep trying to force themselves- don't do it.

Ask me to eat an oyster, and I'm right there with you in distate level. :D

[Chinon00]

No lie, this week after eating sushi for fifteen years and trying sea urchin again for the first time in a few years (and previously absolutely hating it) I adore it now. As Churchill said:
"Never give up, never give up, never ever ever give up!"

[grant.cook]

Yes, you are alone.. and we are going to find you, you anti-cheesite, and "fix" this - we have ways of assimilating you into our cheese-loving horde..

[1sweetpea]

I really think that we are all individuals with our own unique combinations of taste buds and taste preferences. I love some cheeses but loathe others. I can't explain why. Some smelly cheeses make me drool while others smell like vomit to me and nearly turn my stomach. Asiago is one such cheese, yet I adore Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino varieties. I quite like Stilton, Roquefort and Cabrales, yet can't stand Gorgonzola. What can I say? My taste buds have strong opinions.

My husband was shocked when, after purchasing several top quality 88% cocoa dark chocolate bars, I stated emphatically that I dislike dark chocolate, no matter what its provenance. I like milk chocolate and white chocolate, but I crave neither. He's interested in dark chocolate for its health properties. He pushed me to sample one square. The result? My tongue dried out on impact from the bitterness of the cocoa. I have the same reaction with red wines with heavy tannins. It's very unpleasant for me. I do like some red wines very much, though, plus some whites.

If we all liked and consumed the very same things, how limited would our selections be? Vive la difference. I'm thrilled that so many different foods are readily available for us adventurous eaters to sample. I'm happy to risk hating something when tasting new foods, because the chances of loving it are equally great. Taste and smell are very developed senses for me and thus, I feel I tend to have strong reactions to them, positively or negatively.

I don't understand why anyone would condemn someone else for disliking something. The only time I can be critical, though, is when people won't try something new or different, just because it's unfamiliar to them.

[Jay F]

<<<<Some smelly cheeses make me drool while others smell like vomit to me and nearly turn my stomach. Asiago is one such cheese, yet I adore Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino varieties. I quite like Stilton, Roquefort and Cabrales, yet can't stand Gorgonzola.>>>>

Parmigiano-Reggiano is my single favorite food. Asiago is okay. But Pecorino, that I find foul. I was so disappointed. I like _everything_ Italian. And the way some of the TV hosts and cookbook authors go on, I thought they were interchangeable. Hell, no.

I've never had Cabrales, but Gorgonzola is the only cheese I like from your second list. I have an _active_ dislike of Stilton. When I was catering, I would always have someone else work with it if I could.

[1sweetpea]

Just out of interest, Jay F, have you encountered other types of Pecorino than Romano? I was intentionally vague in my post because I don't think many people have access to Pecorino Sardo or Pecorino Toscano, both of which are less salty and less smelly than Pecorino Romano. These are vastly superior to both Romano and the North American versions produced to mimic Pecorino Romano. You may well loathe them all, but I'm interested to know.

If you don't like Stilton or Roquefort, I can pretty much guarantee that you'll dislike Cabrales too. It's up there with Roquefort in terms of intensity/rankness.

Do you like aged Gruyuere? That's another I quite dislike, unless combined with Emmenthal and bubbling atop an authentic onion soup. In that case, it's fine, as it serves its purpose.

As a fan of many cheeses, I'm really quite shocked that I can be so picky from one cheese to the next. I could create a lengthy list of cheeses from around the world and I suspect that my "yuck" list would be nearly as long as the "yum" list.

[Jay F]

Re: Pecorino, I'm honestly not sure if I've had Sardo or Toscano. But I will now try them. I'm not crazy about gruyere unless it's cooked in something, like quiche or onion soup. As an eating cheese, there are just so many better ways to spend the money.

[mullally51]

Yes.

[joan828]

My 28 year old daughter hates cheese. She orders pizza without cheese and also hates chocolate. We think she's an alien. :) This has been going on all her life. I have a picture of her in her high chair spitting out chocolate pudding.

[joan828]

Oh and we are Boston Irish. All of us are meat lovers. She just does not like the taste of any kind of cheese, including cream cheese. :)

[sisterfunkhaus]

I don't get a dislike for cheese, but I am sure some people don't get my dislike for liver in any form. I have 7-10 different types of cheese in my refrigerator at all times. I can't do without it.

[Chinon00]

I don't get claiming to not like cheese then naming when you like cheese.

[KaimukiMan]

If you don't like it, and you have tried it, and tried again, and still don't like it, then why worry about it. Just say no thanks. Yes it can be limiting, but I'm sure you have found ways to deal with it. And no you are not alone. Tastes do change over time, but not always. Who knows, maybe your body is telling you something. After all there is some evidence that until only about 10,000 years ago humans couldn't digest milk past infancy.

[ceekskat]

12 yr old DD, with an otherwise discriminating palate, absolutely detests cheese & always has; however, doesn't mind cooked cheese such as pizza. Some psychological block I figure since she won't even try anything (not even cream cheese frosting on a delectable Kara's Cupcake). During a vacation dinner at Osteria Mozza in L.A., obviously jealous from seeing the rest of us blissfully enjoying ricotta crostini, DD accused me of probably not having given her any cheese when she was a baby!

She eats lamb, sushi, spicy Indian food, deli sandwich with onions/pickles, etc. : )

[chefathome]

It's an interesting thing to like cheese in some ways and not others (such as you mentioned). I love fresh fennel bulb but do not like fennel seed in things. I want to but just don't!

[ceekskat]

hehe, she *loves* toasted fennel seeds (somph) along with the candy coated ones found in the Indian restaurants!

[nycgal31]

I hate all cheese - cooked, cottage and raw. I wish I didn't. It makes life really hard.

[twinkey]

i am with you nycgal31..at 55 yrs old i've tried it..didn't like it and in all these years an't eat it and planning to now.. nope

[FishTales]

Nothing wrong with that, leaves more in the world for us-- thanks.

Cheers!

[chicgail]

Are you my SIL? Of course she won't eat cheese in any form: raw, cooked, even mascarpone or creme fraise. She said a friend of hers as a child didn't like cheese and she decided to dislike it in support of her friend and it has been that way for her ever since. Weird not just because she knows she just made it up but that otherwise she has a pretty sophisticated and worldly palate.

[nycgal31]

I don't think so but I wish I knew her. It's so frustrating being a cheese hater.

[tracylee]

I know someone who doesn't like cheese in any form. I can't fathom that, as I've lived on cheese as my main protein for the last couple of years that I've been ill and haven't been able to eat much. I can't do liquid or sweet dairy, but can (and do) eat cheese all day long.

[Harters]

The father-in-law is one who won't eat cheese in any form.

That said, there is a long list of things that he won't eat in any form - tomatoes, anything spicy, anything "foreign", most vegetables to name just a few,. He once described green beans as "exotic" - I joke not. I freaking hate it when he comes to dinner - nowadays, regardless of what everyone else is having, he just gets a steak and single potato (which he leaves most of).

[Veggo]

I must be the cosmological equivalent of anti-matter to those who don't like cheese. Give me your tired, your weary wheels, your rotten, fetid, off-color cheeses, and I will feast on them.

[kmasowut]

I absolutely hate cheese! I think it is the grossest (if thats a word) thing i have ever put in my mouth, but i can eat pizza. It cant be plain because that always tastes cheesy, must be pepperoni. I'm not even sure how people can put it in their mouths. It taste like something you shouldnt eat. Everytime you tell someone you dont like cheese they think your being rude or just think your weird. Everytime you go to order something like a salad or a burger, most of the time cheese is usually included. How can people assume that everyone likes cheese. Thats like putting tomatoes on everything. I'll never understand the big deal about not liking cheese, and I'll never understand the hype over liking it. YUCK

[Chinon00]

If cheese is so awful how can you tolerate on a pizza? I mean you can ask for no cheese or remove it. I have a relative who does all the time. Not because she doesn't like cheese but because it wreaks havoc with her dentures.

[lifeasbinge]

yes, probably

[lifeasbinge]

or not. I guess perhaps I just don't understand the question. Not everyone likes cheese. Not everyone has to like cheese.

[harryharry]

Some people think that those who dis-like cheese are allergic to rennet - and I kind of believe that - but....

I used to hate cheese -

As a kid, I could eat one slice of pizza w cheese and then had to pick the rest off.... and won't go into my wierder cheese eating habit -

ok....I will.....I folded up american cheese into little squares and sucked on them, hated it if I chewed...

I work in the food business, worked at one of the most famous cheese counters in the country (at the time) and owned a store that sold over 50 types of cheese - through it all, I tasted everything and liked very little -

I've since grown to like some cheeses, and even crave a few (sometimes) - some still smell and taste like puke (nice image right?) - aged provolone is still the most disgusting thing -

I love milk, ice cream and whipped cream, can tolerate sour cream, cottage cheese and sometimes yogurt....

Go figure - Used to hate eggplant too - it made my tongue tingly - now I eat eggplant parmesan with pleasure.

[invinotheresverde]

So with you on the provolone. I love every other cheese I've ever tasted, but man, provolone is absolutely foul.

[occula]

When I was a kid, I hated cheese. In retrospect, my folks weren't very adventurous, and neither were my surroundings, so I probably just hate "American cheese." Always spoiling a burger! YUCK. Luckily my mom never made macaroni and cheese or grilled cheese sandwiches, but the very idea gave me nightmares.

I married a cheese lover.

So, okay, I like cheese generally now. I still can't stand bleu cheese or any of its relatives. I think I just hate MOLD, and that's what it tasted like to me - I'm eating mold! ack.

Strangely, I used to think I didn't care much for goat cheese, the first few times I tried it. Now I think it's humankind's greatest invention.

[lcool]

My sister in law just doesn't like cheese or eggs,lived with a lot of flack about it.About 15 years ago at age 40 ended up in the ER with a ?belly? ache,as did her younger brother about 5 years later.The final diagnosis was not so mild allergies for both of them.My husband is the oldest of six,the three born in the middle are all sensitive to dairy and egg.Two take a pill,SIL doesn't bother,doesn't like cheese and eggs anyway.
Your so-called dislike maybe your body doing you favour.Both of DH younger brothers never really drank milk or ate much cheese.

[montrealeater]

OP is clearly not alone. Insanity still a possibility, tho. (joking!) (mostly!)

[fara]

Yes. in my eyes. I could live on cheese.

[huiray]

I guess you are saying he is the only one who doesn't like cheese, then? (Since the only question in his OP is: "am I the only one out there who feels this way?") If so there are lots of people who would contradict you.

[fara]

try developing a sense of humor.

[huiray]

My sense of humor is just fine, thank you - but obviously very different from yours.

[twinkey]

don't have a sense of humor when it comes to cheese on my food.. i get so mad.. ask for a hamburger and get a cheese burger.. there is a differance ,most cooks in the food service today don't know that.

[huiray]

No, you are not alone.

I eat cheese but do not particularly care for it and certainly do not think of it when I am hungry nor look for it, except when I want to make something that specifically calls for a certain type of cheese. It's very rare. As I write, I just remembered that there is a hunk of what I believe was supposed to be excellent parmigiano reggiano in my fridge somewhere on the top shelf, still unwrapped since I bought it - I don't even recall when. Then there were the two pieces of local, artisanal Edam and something else, I forget what, that sat in the fridge for, what, 6+ months before I chucked them out, again completely unopened.

Sure, if I get a cheeseburger when eating out I'll be eating cheese, typically American cheese (those squares of yellow stuff, suitably melted over the burger) in most cases. Or Mac n cheese (with velveeta, even, let alone American cheddar or some such), etc etc. I don't make these items at home. I can't remember the last time I had a pizza.

The last time I got cheese and used it was for making a batch of pesto genovese, for which I got fresh grated pecorino romano. And before that...probably some fresh pappardelle with walnut-gorgonzola sauce I made myself, maybe a year or so ago.

Oh, I do like fresh mozzarella from one particular person who makes it fresh, and I use it for Insalata Caprese with nice juicy tomatoes, but that's about the only time I eat mozzarella, for that matter, and only from time to time during tomato season.

[BangorDin]

Wouldn't know where to begin to look for statistics on this, but I wonder what percentage of the public doesn't like cheese, like in a poll...

Hate it

Dislike strongly

Take it or leave it

like it usually

love it

never tried it
etc.

I like it fine myself.

[tastesgoodwhatisit]

I personally love cheese.

However, I can introduce you to lots and lots of people who don't. I live in a part of Asia, where dairy products aren't a big part of traditional cuisine, and even now, the cheese section at the grocery store is 95% processed cheese slices, with maybe some imported cheddar and mozzarella if you're feeling exotic.

So there are a lot of people who didn't grow up eating cheese, and don't like the flavour at all. Then there are people who are okay with cheese slices, but find any sort of flavourful cheese absolutely disgusting. These are the same people who can happily eat things like stinky tofu, durian, or natto, mind you.