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More people should know about the brown cheese! (Also known as Gjetost or Brunost.) It’s sweet and buttery and super weird.
[ID: An image of a block of brunost, sitting on a plate; a person is using a cheese slicer to take a slice off the top, and it is wrinkling a little as it’s quite a soft cheese.]
I KEEP TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE TASTE OF THIS CHEESE TO PEOPLE AND JUST UTTERLY FAILING
People are like “so you liked the weird Norwegian cheese?” and I’m like “no?” “so you didn’t like it?” me “Also no?”
the taste was so far away from comparison to anything else I’ve tasted that I couldn’t actually rate whether or not I liked it I just kept eating it hoping it would become clearer and It Did Not. Ten out of Ten cheese experience, would be baffled by it again
The best way I’ve heard it described is “Salty goat fudge” but even then that fails to capture the weird sweetness of it!
For me describing the texture is much more difficult. It’s like a firm brie, but it clings to the tongue in indescribable ways.
here’s a weird tangent for you: ok backstory my aunt immigrated to norway 45 years ago so anyway i have cousins there but no background or anything to explain it so i went to visit and they served me this cheese and yes, it’s rather baffling as an experience– but super tasty, i really like it a lot. but the best part is as i’m eating it my younger cousin (he’s only two years younger than me so at the time was like 16) is like “and it’s radioactive!” “What?” Apparently they had a Geiger counter at school and he got hold of it, he and his friends, and were just testing random things, and of course one of them had a cheese sandwich which is a sacred Norwegian tradition apparently but the Geiger counter went crazy on the cheese sandwich so they tested further and it was specifically the cheese and okay it wasn’t like super radioactive but it definitely was radioactive.
Now this was like 20 years ago and i never got any hard data about it but ever since then i’ve just had this little rent-free brain cell dedicated to radioactive norwegian goat cheese (Your picture was not posted)
