Imagine losing your head over a block of cheese. It nearly happened to four men in Memphis after a young woman visiting their home mistook a slab of queso fresco she spotted for

On with the mold, into the blues. You could build yourself a veritable blue cheese tower of babel with Britain’s Stilton, Denmark’s Danish Blue, France’s Roquefort, Ireland’s Cashel Blue, Italy’s Gorgonzola, and Spain’s Cabrales. It seems this moldy cheese is loved in every language.

On the home front we’ve got good old Maytag Blue, as dependable as the washing machine whose name it shares (and yes, they are related; the dairy that makes Maytag Blue was started by the grandson of the founder of Maytag appliances).