Blue Cheese and Hard Salami

     This morning my wife, Mimi, asked me. "How do you know when blue cheese goes bad?" That's a good question, I thought, it comes with mold, so how do you tell good mold from bad?

     My answer was, "I think it's like hard salami, it never goes bad." We both laughed, but think about it. Does hard salami look or taste different the day you bought it versus six weeks later? Now, many of you might say that you would throw salami away before it was 6 weeks old but I know there are a few like me that don't. To those people that toss the hard salami in the trash after a few weeks, I ask, does it look any different?

     In my house I'm the taste tester. Mimi will say. "Check to see if the milk is good or smell this." That means, taste it to see if it's gross. I will do that if it doesn't smell like feet. Tasting aged hard salami and blue cheese are less intimidating than milk. I don't usually have a problem taste testing either unless they are fuzzy. That's never a good thing.

     I checked the Internet to see what was said about long shelf life foods, but a lot of them were just condiments or dried foods, not very substantial. Since it was on the Internet it could be fake news, but I have personal experience with blue cheese and hard salami so I know what I speak.

     I guess at the end of the world all that will be left will be hard salami, blue cheese and cockroaches.

    It’s getting close to lunch and I seem to have a taste for aged hard salami and blue cheese. What a coincidence.