ELI5: People have been eating cheese for ages, way before refrigerators and airtight containers, but if I leave cheese on my table for a few hours it becomes inedible; how were they keeping it fresh in the past? explainlikeimfive

Did cheese use to last longer and now has been manufactured to only last a brief time one opened or were people in the past just accustomed to eating moldy, stuff cheese?

Submitted December 23, 2015 at 01:17AM by sesquipedalianlike http://ift.tt/1NK56a0 explainlikeimfive