[kergonath]

I have eaten quite a lot of things on 5 continents. I got food poisoning from a lot of things as well. Plus common stomach bugs every so often. What I have never seen ever is someone getting food poisoning from a piece of cheese. And some of them are nasty even without considering what they can pick up in a fridge.

Hard cheeses are fine if you just scrap one or two millimetres in the worst cases. Soft cheeses are supposed to have a thriving mould population from the beginning, which prevents a lot of nasty things to develop. The riskiest are cheeses you are supposed to eat very young like cottage cheese. These can be aged with the right culture, but it’s unlikely to happen by chance and they get foul very quickly otherwise.

You should be more upset that a simple ER visit could cost you any money at all, to be honest.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

The thing about cottage cheeses and the like is our evolution is REALLY good at detecting when dairy is bad (as also alluded to in the article). So while bad cottage cheese is probably dangerous, your inbuilt system is immediately going to detect it as rancid and be repulsed to eating it.

[matt-attack]

Yes but what about sour cream?? It’s already sour!