I got some Rosenberg blue cheese today. It is making the rest of the fridge smell even though it is still in its wrapper.

Yum.

There's a lot worse smells than blue cheese.

Try googling Hakarl.

Love blue cheese, cannot resist picking up packs in s/market and sniffing...... ahhhhhhhhh .............heavenly

I've been thrown out of department stores for doing that in the lady's lingerie department.

.....ahhhhhhh.... heavenly

I saw the news article this morning...

Gang 'killed victims to extract their fat'

Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment

A Peruvian gang that allegedly killed people and drained fat from their corpses for use in cosmetics may have been inspired by a grisly Andean legend.

Hilarió Cudeña Simon, the alleged ringleader, linked the crimes to tales of demonic assassins, known as Pishtacos, who purportedly waylaid victims in pre-Columbian times, police said.

Peru reacted with revulsion and horror to reports that scores of peasants may have been butchered by the gang, which was said to have operated in Huánuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks.

Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police, said Cudeña and three other suspects were in custody and that another seven gang members were being hunted.

The jailed men have confessed to killing five people, but police suspect the number of victims is far higher, with 60 people reported missing in Huánuco this year alone. Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to £36,000 a gallon.

At a news conference police displayed two bottles of fat, which laboratory tests confirmed were human. "The fat was extracted from the thorax and thighs," said Eusebio Felix Murga, chief of police of Dirincri district. Police also showed a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim discovered last month in a coca-growing valley.

Police said they received a tip four months ago about a trade in human fat, which exported the amber liquid to Europe as anti-wrinkle cream. In addition to the alleged ringleader the suspects were named as Segundo Castillejos Agüero, Marcos Veramendi Princípe and Enadina Estela Claudio. They have been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, illegal firearms possession and drug trafficking.

The alleged plot has evoked comparisons to Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume in which a killer distills the essence of his victims into a jar. Others compare it to the film Fight Club in which a character played by Brad Pitt steals bags of human fat from a liposuction clinic to make soap.

The gang have been nicknamed the Pishtacos after the ruthless assassins of indigenous Quechua legend who ambushed solitary victims and drained their fat as an offering to gods to make the land fertile. Another version depicts them as cannibal bandits who ate the skin and sold the fat. The stories date back to before the European conquest.

The suspects allegedly would sever victims' heads, arms and legs, remove organs and suspend torsos from hooks above candles, which warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. Members claimed other gangs were engaged in similar killings.

Medical experts said human fat had cosmetic applications to keep skin supple, but were sceptical about an international black market. "It doesn't make any sense, because in most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from people who are willing to donate," Adam Katz, a professor of plastic surgery at the University of Virginia medical school, told the Associated Press.

Peruvians expressed shock that grisly Andean legends they heard from their grandparents could turn out to have a modern twist. "It's really incredible that killers like this could exist today," said one contributor to the newspaper Peru21.

It's from The Guardian.

As if I needed to say....

There was a movie...was it Fight Club??... where the two main characters used to climb a fence and raid the dumpster bin of a cosmetic hospital for bags of human fat. They took it home and made a boutique style cosmetic soap.

As for blue cheese..... if making a dish with cheese in the recipe, such a mac and cheese.... substitute a small portion of the normal cheese with blue for extra umami!!!!

Is there a good Cheese Shop in Bangkok ?

Carrefour usually has a reasonable selection.

Rimping in Chiang Mai is about the best in the North.

Is there more to life than good cheese?

This thread is developing a bad smell.

Could be my feet, I wore socks yesterday.

Is there more to life than good cheese?

You're crackers

Is there more to life than good cheese?

You're crackers

A Hovis cracker with blue cheese on I hope!

I remember my childhood in the 70's Sydney; there are possibly thousands of family photos from that era with the subjects looking as if they are pouting instead of smiling.

"Say cheese", the photographer would say.

And in chorus, the people being photographed would all say "Cooooon".

Aussie humour mimicing a cheese advertisement.

We used to say "Kraft", it was the only brand name cheese available where I lived in the 50s. Real cheese was bought direct from the cheeseries.

I still like Kraft, especially grilled.

Weeping Gorgonzola ( call it Danish Blue and it blarts and blarts ) double yummy

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".

(Psalms 30:5)

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".

(Psalms 30:5)

Sweaty palms, just like the cheese...................

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".

(Psalms 30:5)

So endure had been crying all night, but some wummin named joy came by in the morning...?

No...a lesbian named May was weeping because she had Endure for the night, but managed to make Joy orgasm in the morning.

Reading comprehension, please!!

“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".

(Psalms 30:5)

She'll be lucky.

I have got the weirdest feeling...

Don't scratch it, whatever you do

It's gone today!

Did you know that if a panda gets struck by lightning, its black hair turns white and its white hair black? A spread from the book shown above reveals this affliction. These bears are known to pandologists as negative pandas.

100 facts about pandas.

NAHHHHH!!! I dont believes ya!!

Yes, and if they are unlucky enough to be struck again the fur turns back and they become a double negative!

100 facts about pandas

Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?

100 facts about lightning

/ Priceless

They get struck the second time in a different place - they do move around you know...

A blindfolded panda will always head north. This is due to the high iron content in the panda's liver, which makes the animal slightly magnetic.

100 facts about pandas

Are you sure it's the liver? In birds and other animals it's specialised tissue in the nasal region.