I know that most “spicy” foods such as hot peppers taste that way because they stimulate nociceptors in the mouth, however is the same true of bleu cheese, or does it taste spicy through a different mechanism?
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Most people don’t consider blue cheese to be “spicy” per se, but more “sharp”. This comes from two things: directly from the penicillium molds that live in and on the cheese, and from the ketones produced when that mold eats the milk fat in the cheese as it ages.
Blue cheese shouldn’t be spicy at all, perhaps you got a spiced cheese?
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