#15 Pont Salut

Pont salut is a creamy, cows milk cheese made in the Brittany region of France. It's a well known cheese I'd heard of, but not sampled so what the hell I thought, lets add it to the ton of cheese tally.

And this is a cheese with a terrific little back story involving exiled monks, the French revolutionary terror and restrictive trade practices.

But alas, its just not a particularly good cheese.

It's not bad - just a little disappointing, much like my grades at University.

I mean this is a French cheese exported world wide, but all it reminded me of was those soft cheeses from the supermarket cabinet that you'd use to ween your kids off kraft singles. Even there it failed, because the 7 year old didn't like it (her heart was stolen by D'Affinois a long time ago).

Pont salut illustrates the perils of the Internet where I found it featured on a stinky cheese list. Apparently it's smell gets much stronger with age but there was little aroma to my sample.

So how did it taste? Not unpleasant, soft and creamy in texture a little sweet and a lot bland.The Taylor Swift of cheese (with apologies to my daughter who is a big time TF fan).

The lesson here - take the recommendation of a good cheesemonger over the internet any day.


Is cheese is good (usually)