The World’s Oldest Cheese Was Just Discovered in Egypt, and People Actually Want to Eat It

The cheese was discovered in the tomb of Ptahmes, who was the mayor of Memphis, Egypt, during the 13th-century BC. And before your FOMO gets too bad, it might make you feel better to know that this cheese probably won’t taste anything like modern cheese. Enrico Greco, the research lead from Italy’s University of Catania, told ABC, “I’m Italian. I love cheese and I know how much they can change in flavor and appearance even with very few differences in ingredients and process.”

Disregarding the experts’ warnings, cheese lovers still took to Twitter to express their desires to try the potentially fatal cheese anyway. Some couldn’t seem to care less about eating the diseased cheese while others are curious about pairing it with the red liquid found in the nearby sarcophagus.

Let us eat the disease cheese https://t.co/4q7mmFEqzj

— Eliza Berlage (@verbaliza) August 17, 2018

Don’t care. Still eating it. https://t.co/XOs2sEPBjk

— Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) August 17, 2018

LET US PAIR IT WITH A GLASS OF SARCOPHAGUS RED AND FEEL WHAT IT IS TO TRULY LIVE FOR ONCE YOU COWARDS https://t.co/w10rECTP5d

— Johnny Chiodini (@johnneh) August 17, 2018

dip it in the fucking sarcophagus juice https://t.co/wFmQrnTaXs

— Emily Hughes 🦔 (@emilyhughes) August 17, 2018

H/T: Insider