What’s blue cheese called in your language?

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1. Schimmelkaas or mouldy cheese. Though blauwe kaas (blue cheese) is also used.

2. Sinihomejuusto (blue mold cheese), although most people just use Aurajuusto, which is a brand of bluecheese, but it’s the most popular one.

3. We call it _blåskimmelost_, which means “blue-molded-cheese.” The most popular types of _blåskimmel_ is probably the Danish Danablu, though Italian Gorgonzola is also very popular, especially as a topping on pizza.

4. Syr s modrou plisni/ cheese with blue mould and yes, our version of roquefort is popular

5. Brânza cu mucegai here in Romania,it translate to moldy cheese

6. Mėlynasis pelėsinis sūris, basically like other redditors said, blue mold cheese. The color isn’t always accentuated

7. My German family called it “Herrenkäse” aka “Men’s Cheese” which is a bit sexist in retrospect. It basically was called that because apparently it’s too bitter for women so it’s a cheese for men.

   I usually just say Schimmelkäse nowadays, which just translates to moldy cheese

8. Also [Ädelost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84delost) (Noble Cheese)

9. Ser pleśniowy – moldy cheese – for all cheeses with mold

   Niebieski ser – blue cheese – for cheese with blue mold.

10. Mold cheese. That’s pretty gross when I read this in English now 😂

11. Mėlynasis pelėsinis sūris ( blue molded cheese). Not sure if its popular in whole population, but it sure is liked by gourmets.

12. Kéksajt = blue cheese, but sometimes it is also called márványsajt = marble cheese.

13. Wikipedia says formaggi erborinati or formaggi verdi/blu but I’ve never heard anybody call them that. I usually just call them by their names, e.g. gorgonzola (the most popular blue cheese here), roquefort, etc

14. Queso Azul (blue cheese) but mostly we call it by it’s name: Cabrales, La Peral Gamoneu…

15. Cheese with mould. Or azure cheese, to distinguish it from cheese with white mould, like camembert.

16. Just Blue, with an addition of its origin. Though there are other names, depending of where it’s from, fourme and Roquefort being the most known.

17. *Gráðostur* or *gráðaostur*. Both terms meal “cheese with (green) mould”, but the locally produced type is also marked with the common English name. It’s fairly popular and always available and we even import some – I have seen Danablu (Danish) and Stilton (English) in supermarkets, and Roquefort (French) and Gorgonzola (Italian) in speciality cheese shops.

18. Blauschimmelkäse, a compound word: Blau (Blue) Schimmel (Mold) Käse (Cheese)

19. Blue cheese, well in Swedish it can be mögelost, blåmögelost, grönmögelost and if it made in Sweden it can be ädelost. Yes Swedish is weird.

20. Plavi sir (blue cheese) or buđavi sir (moldy cheese) or gorgonzola but that may be true only if it is the original Gorgonzola cheese from Milan, Italy.

21. In Dutch it would be “schimmelkaas”. Literal translation: fungus cheese.

22. General Polish term for cheeses with mould: ser pleśniowy (mould cheese). Polish term for blue cheese specifically: also ser pleśniowy, or niebieski ser pleśniowy (blue mould cheese), if you want to specify. Or just niebieski ser (blue cheese).

23. In Norwegian it’s called blåmuggost, which means “blue mold cheese”

24. Sir z (plemenito) modro plesnijo – Cheese with (noble) blue mould. Plemenito-noble is often add before blue mould, as being noble sells better than just mouldy.

25. In Irish it’s *cáis choincleacha*, where *coincleach* means blue mould and is also used for mildew.

26. Formatge blau (blue cheese). But it’s more common to call it by the origin of that cheese in particular.

27. We use blue cheese – синьо сирене ( sinyo sirene ) , it’s not as popular as other cheeses , but it’s available basically everywhere.

28. Every blue cheese in Greece is called “a cheese like roquefort” 🙂

29. I dont know if there even is something like blue cheese in Czech republic.

    The closest thing to its looks is brand called Niva and everybody just calls it niva or brand called Hermelín and everybody calls it hermelín. Technically it is called mold/rot cheese, but i never ever heard anybody call it like that.

30. Just comes from English – cáis ghorm, the literal translation of blue cheese.

31. In Finnish, sinihomejuusto, “blue mould cheese”.

    Although in practice everyone talks about aurajuusto, which is the most common brand. A bit like hoover, kleenex etc. being nowadays synonyms for vacuum cleaners and tissues.

32. Blue cheese (Queijo azul) is right, but people just call it by their names like Roquefort; Gorgonzola, etc.. From my experience at least. And far from being a popular cheese here.