Countless fans took to social media to share ways they're enjoying brie before the cheese is gone for good

Countless fans took to social media to share ways they’re enjoying brie before the cheese is gone for good

  • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    You can’t just quote the social media trend statement and not what is happening to the cause ‘extinction’ of a cheese, whatever that even means.

    Edit: tl;dr: Penicillium camemberti is supposedly incapable of sexual reproduction so they clone it but that’s not working so great lately; no genetic diversity, etc.

    • FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      … but they do?

      Unlike most molds, Penicillium camemberti can’t reproduce sexually with other fungi to create new genetic diversity. As a result, cheesemakers have to clone it — but that has become increasingly difficult because of mutations that interfere with the fungi’s ability to produce spores.

      • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I only see a quote about people cheese posting before the briepocalypse. Going into the article to find what you quoted is what my tldr is based on.

    • CMD@bae.st
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      8 months ago

      @Grass @BrikoX This is actually kinda weird. How do you wind up with a fungus that we can’t reproduce well without cloning it?