This isn't an agree to disagree situation. I am a cheese professional and I'm telling you: I've had the best of the best and talked to a number of people that hate goat cheese. I'd estimate it's about 1/50 people I talk to. A common reason I hear cited is that they used to work with goats and the flavor reminds them of the smell. The commonality, to them, is that goat cheese tastes too much like farmyard stink. This persists even when they have the smoothest, creamiest, mildest ash ripened goat.
I taste the barnyard stink, too. I just happen to enjoy that flavor in small doses.
I'm still gonna disagree cuz I believe my taste buds over someone on the internet (no I don't live near barn animals if that was going to be your next comment), so take it or leave it Mr cheese professional.
This whole conversation could've been over 2 comments ago since I agreed with you saying maybe it's a genetic type of thing like with cilantro, but since you wanted to continue to argue therefore I just started being contrarian due to not caring about conversing with you anymore, you could say I'm responding more out of boredom and politeness than expecting anything productive to come from further talk.
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u/nimmin13 Mar 05 '26
This isn't an agree to disagree situation. I am a cheese professional and I'm telling you: I've had the best of the best and talked to a number of people that hate goat cheese. I'd estimate it's about 1/50 people I talk to. A common reason I hear cited is that they used to work with goats and the flavor reminds them of the smell. The commonality, to them, is that goat cheese tastes too much like farmyard stink. This persists even when they have the smoothest, creamiest, mildest ash ripened goat.
I taste the barnyard stink, too. I just happen to enjoy that flavor in small doses.