Anyone else hate goat cheese?

[Anonymous]

I love goat cheese! You aren't a real cheese lover if you odn't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the weird thing. I love feta, bleu, brie, you name it. But goat cheese/chevre smells like a barn and tastes worse. I just can't stand it. I want to love it but I can't

I totally agree! I am a foodie and there are VERY few things I dislike and only one thing I hate: Goat cheese. Especially the really runny kind. People call me "the mouse" because I eat and love so many different cheeses, but goat cheese makes me gag. Repulsed by it. I keep trying to research WHY I have this strong reaction to just one food but I can't find anything. I'm not big on goat meat or lamb either, but I'll eat both. Some of the harder goat cheeses I can eat (think ricotta-texture and harder) but I still don't particularly like them. But that runny stuff? It tastes like vomit. Why???

[Anonymous]

I don't love goat cheese, but I like it breaded and fried or with crackers.
I haven't encountered any cheese that I dislike, maybe except for cottage cheese (the texture really bothers me).
I guess I'm lucky that I find most of cheese enjoyable. I consider myself a picky eater, though. But I'm more put off by quality of food than by particular food items/ingredients.

[Anonymous]

Hate hate hate it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the weird thing. I love feta, bleu, brie, you name it. But goat cheese/chevre smells like a barn and tastes worse. I just can't stand it. I want to love it but I can't

+1 Makes me gag. I also can't choke diem arugula, for some reason.

[Anonymous]

I hurl at the thought! Lamb, too.

[Anonymous]

I love goat cheese. Also love feta (especially the authentic kind from sheep's milk!), ricotta, and any other kind of cheese. The sharpest blue cheeses, I love in really small doses, but they get overwhelming quickly - that's my only cheese restriction.

"Gamey" flavors don't usually bother me, though. I grew up on venison. I love goat meat, lamb, venison, all of it. So when I hear that goat milk has a "goat-ey" taste ... I don't taste that at all, but if I don't think I'd mind it.

It's funny to me that goat cheese provokes such a strong love-it-or-hate-it reaction. I think it's pretty mild and unoffensive, as far as cheeses go, but everyone seems to feel strongly one way or the other. I wonder if it's like cilantro in that people can have either of two completely different experiences in how it tastes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here's the weird thing. I love feta, bleu, brie, you name it. But goat cheese/chevre smells like a barn and tastes worse. I just can't stand it. I want to love it but I can't

I totally agree! I am a foodie and there are VERY few things I dislike and only one thing I hate: Goat cheese. Especially the really runny kind. People call me "the mouse" because I eat and love so many different cheeses, but goat cheese makes me gag. Repulsed by it. I keep trying to research WHY I have this strong reaction to just one food but I can't find anything. I'm not big on goat meat or lamb either, but I'll eat both. Some of the harder goat cheeses I can eat (think ricotta-texture and harder) but I still don't particularly like them. But that runny stuff? It tastes like vomit. Why???

This is me too! I'll eat anything, but can't get down with goat cheese and I don't like goat meat or lamb really either (unless they're smothered in a curry or something). I love blue cheese and lots of other stinky cheeses, but I cannot force myself to like goat cheese. And I try every few months or so.

[Anonymous]

I love love love feta and blue cheese but goat cheese tastes like a dirty barnyard to me. The aftertaste is absolutely revolting. There must be a scientific explanation why it tastes like that to some people and not others. (I love cilantro so its not the same genetic trait). I read somewhere that a good analogy would be if 2 people take a bite of chocolate cake and to one person it tastes like ammonia and to the other, it tastes like chocolate cake. So, goat cheese lovers, don't judge goat cheese haters as finicky or assume we just haven't tried the right type. The stuff truly tastes terrible to some people!

[Anonymous]

I'm with the haters. Makes me gag. Same with feta. Not a stinky cheese person AT ALL!

[Anonymous]

I can't eat any stinky cheese. It gags me.

Lamb ? NO. It stinks too. Maybe if I were starving but even then I'd think twice because I'd vomit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It tastes awful. Hate it every which way I've had it. Literally makes me gag which is sad because I see it everywhere in everything now. Anyone else?

no

[Anonymous]

Goat milk only tastes goaty if it's poorly kept in unclean conditions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tell people I'm allergic to goat so they won't put in in my salads etc. It is the only thing I cannot eat. It makes me want to throw up just thinking of eating it. And let me tell you I've had some things to eat that will make people gag just hearing it.

Please don't claim to have allergies that you don't really have. That's just asshole behavior. Just own up to not liking it.

[Anonymous]

I can tolerate feta and use it in recipes when it's called for, but can't do anything more than that. No bleus, no bries, no goats, or other associated stinky and/or blue cheeses.