I don’t remember their exact names, but there are several types of Swiss cheeses from an area that one of my family members are from, where they make really strong cheeses and they are wonderful. When that part of the family have been vacationing in Switzerland, we sometimes gather at their place and have a cheese feast, tho it isn’t a regular occurrence. It was during one of those occasions that my man found out how much I love strong cheese.

But yeah, I’m no expert on cheese names since I rarely dabble in the cheese world.

The cheese he got me was called Gammel Knas and had won awards for being the best cheese in our country. Despite being strong, it still managed to have a sort of sweetness to it, which was lovely. It isn’t the strongest cheese I have ever had, nor the stinkiest, but it was a nice one. The most intense one I ever had was from Switzerland and it’s like 20 years ago so i dont remember what it was called. It was just really intense. Almost made your eyes water and your throat burned a little.

Ironically, I’m not the biggest fan of blue cheese, but I think it’s because I got a gorgonzola pizza at an italian reataurant for one of my birthdays as a kid and it tasted really good, but at some point it became a chore to eat because it was too big with too much cheese and I was a kid so it went from being a good experience to becoming overwhelming and nauseating. Since that pizza, I mostly steered clear of blue cheeses.

Bleu is nothing. Look for a munster, from eastern France (no, it comes from local dialect and not from “monster”). It smells from far away, but it’s absolutely delicious!