Cheeses

I try to make a point of buying one kind of new cheese every time I go to the grocery store (although right now I'm suffering from Cheese Buildup, so I might should skip a couple weeks...).

The last two samples have been Morbier, a French cheese, and the infamous King of Cheeses, Stilton. Both of these can safely fall into the Stinky Cheese category. The Morbier smells just horrific. I mean nasty. But once you get it cut and stuck on a piece of bread, the flavor is creamy, a bit tart but sweet at the same time, and really quite nice. The Stilton, on the other hand, doesn't have quite as strong a smell, but the flavor is stronger than the Morbier, and I don't like it quite as much, King of Cheese or no. It's a bit like Bleu Cheese, including the threads of blue penicillin for color (I wonder if I'd catch less colds if I ate a lot of this...but I guess that's a virus, not a bacterium), but a bit more bitter. On the other hand, according to the Wikipedia article linked above, as well as an article from Scotsman.com, eating Stilton a half hour before bed can cause odd dreams. I'm really tempted to try that out.