Have you ever had any of these microbes infecting you?

I tried it, and I got sick.

Secondly, Penicillin is made from a specific kind of mold found on bread and apparently bleu cheese.

[kskerr]

Originally Posted by Pollock II

I'm allergic to penicillin. I found out the other day that the mold in bleu cheese is the same mold they use for penicillin, which is why I got incredibly sick one times after eating bleu cheese...

Penecillium roqueforti is the causative agent of blue cheese. It is a cousin of the one used to make penecillin but I do not believe it technically used for anything but blue cheese production. Also suggest you stay away from camembert (Penecilluim camemberti for that one), brie is also generally made Penecillium (either P. candidum or P. camemberti most commonly). Not sure if all members of the Penecillium genus make penecillin or not, think they do, some more than others most likely.

[kskerr]

Originally Posted by mazuac

1st of all... you eat blue cheese???!?!?!?! and yes, most mold contains form of penicillin...

Nope, most molds do not make penecillin, generally ones in the Penecillium family do. It is true that antibiotics come from molds (fungi) or bacteria, but not all make them (most do not).

Originally Posted by kskerr

Penecillium roqueforti is the causative agent of blue cheese. It is a cousin of the one used to make penecillin but I do not believe it technically used for anything but blue cheese production. Also suggest you stay away from camembert (Penecilluim camemberti for that one), brie is also generally made Penecillium (either P. candidum or P. camemberti most commonly). Not sure if all members of the Penecillium genus make penecillin or not, think they do, some more than others most likely.

I don't like camembert, and I only eat brie warm and very little of it at that.

[kskerr]

Originally Posted by Pollock II

I don't like camembert, and I only eat brie warm and very little of it at that.

Not much for them myself, think brie is the one of the two I'll eat but I can't remember for sure, generally do not eat that stuff...

brie!thats goat chesse,right?my mom loves that.

[kskerr]

I am not certain that it has to be made from goat's milk, think it is more of how they make it that makes it brie and that it can be from cow milk. It is considered pretty fancy usually.

Brie is not goat cheese. Feta is though.

my grandma's friend had a disorder and she couldn't eat anything with suger or naything... she also had to eat moldy bread, b/c it was penicillin... it was something like HIV but it wasn't HIV...

Sounds like diabetes.

My grandpa likes to put stale popcorn in a glass of milk and eat it like cereal. He also eats cheese mold. I think it has to do with him growing up around the Great Depression.