Besides shagging and drinking, there's not much more enjoyable in life than sinking your teeth into a block of cheese. Brie, Comte, extra mature Cheddar - that shit makes it all worthwhile.
Given cheese's indisputable tastiness, I'd have thought that you'd want to store it in the best way possible, so listen up. According to Good Housekeeping, cheese is not best kept in plastic wrapping.
The magazine has controversially told its readers to use wax paper instead: "Cheese keeps best when it is wrapped in waxed paper. This strikes the right balance between stopping the cheese from drying out and preventing too much moisture from building up.
"Cling film tends to trap moisture, which can encourage mould to grow on the surface of the cheese."
Personally I have no idea what the fuck 'wax paper' is - but apparently regular greaseproof paper is a similar alternative.
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An exception to this rule is piquant blue cheeses, which should be stored loosely so that they can breath as they get more liquid with age.
There are over 700 different named cheeses produced in Britain, including Cornish Yarg, Cheshire and Shropshire Blue which is not actually made in Shropshire, but in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.
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If you're wondering which nation is the biggest consumer of cheese, that would be Greece. An average person from Greece consumes around 27.3 kg of cheese every year with three quarters of that being feta.
Earlier this year experts revealed that eating cheese, milk and yoghurt does not increase your chances of suffering a heart attack or stroke - even if you consume the full-fat forms of them.
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Experts from an international team found that the old view of dairy being bad for your health is a "misconception [and] mistaken belief."
So eat up LADs, it sounds like there's literally no reason not to.
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