
Journal mercedo's Journal: Blue Cheese 9
I bought Dofo, Danish blue cheese and ate it. And again I stared at the green mold they have in it, it was sure green not blue. Then I thought about why it's blue cheese and is not green cheese.
Green is so associated with the image of leaves, so if we heard green cheese we might suppose it includes chlorophyll in it. Blue was an euphemism for green, and there's no blue in living materials. Blue is more abstract notion than green which is more concrete, so when in use of the word in food, blue is more preferable than green.
I might have to consider why we call semi-transparent wine white next, but it's time to sleep definitely I'd better stop thinking about useless, meaningless, colourless things timelessly.
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So there is a small smattering of blue usually, hence the name blue cheese.
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Why natto is tasty? Because that reflects the spirit of samurai. Natto was developed in the east part of Japan -Tokyo (to tell the truth, you know in the western part of Japan, traditionally natto hasn't been eaten)- that is regarded as a cradle of samurai spirit. Natto represents spirit of simple diet, vegetarian protein, thought to be only allowed to take in Buddhist tradition. And the strings of natto are believed to be not be
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while i was asleep i thought of something green that we call blue and i was going to remember it to tell you about but now that i'm awake i've forgotten.
now i don't know whether i will remember a real green thing or whether i just thought i had found one in my dream.
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They called it verdigris, but it was not neither green nor blue. Since then confusion of blue &green started.