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[ELI5] Why is it ok to eat cheese if it's moldy but not other foods?
gpt
Well, there’s two things here.

First, for Cheeses that you are meant to eat moldy, like Bleu cheese, they are very specific kinds of mold that are grown and cultivated like other foods then mixed in/added with the cheese. It isn’t just random mold growing on it. These are known to be safe and are used to enhance smell/flavor.

Then, for other cheeses when if you find mold on a block of it you can just cut it off and eat the rest, this is because since blocks of cheese are typically harder/denser. The tendrils and spores of the mold can’t spread very deep into the cheese, so you can just cut off the bad area.