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Manchego or mezcla semicurado (both spanish)
But I actually eat (and like) a lot of different sorts
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Cheeses are living creatures. They have individuality, they can be in good or bad moods. One piece of cheese may be of a completely different quality than another pieces bought two weeks later, even if the name of the cheese is the same.
For the Midwinter feast, I usually go to this one gourmet shop that has their own cheese cellar for doing their own controlled maturing. The Jarlsberg cheese (a Swiss cheese, the only Norwegian true cheese known abroad - the brown cheese is really not a cheese!) I bought for this Midwinter had been maturing since 2017, and was the best cheese I had had since the previous Midwinter Jarlsberg 
Yet, I have tasted even better Jarlsberg cheeses, matured for "only" three years. As stated: They are individual, living creatures, with their own personality.
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How is the brown one not a real cheese? It fooled me into believing it is one.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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(Even if we learned English in school, it didn't cover professional terminology for cheese making, so bear over with me if I haven't found the right English terms in my English dictionary!  )
To make cheese, you heat the milk and add rennet (or various kinds of acid). The rennet will cause the casein in the milk to coagulate. (Note that the German name for cheese is Käse, from 'casein' - and maybe the English 'cheese' also has roots back to casein!). The curds are then strained from the liquid, and pressed into what becomes the cheese.
The liquid left over after the curds have been removed is called whey. This is the part of the milk that does not become cheese. If you let the whey boil until almost all the water has evaporated, it becomes a really thick sauce, and finally so thick that when it is cooled down, you need a knife for cutting it. Sometimes, the brown cheese makers let it harden in finely decorated wood casts to give the sides various patterns (Brown cheese[^])
In Norway, brown "cheese" is usually made at least partially from goat milk, and frequently referred to as "goat cheese" even if half of the whey is from cow milk. You certainly can make real, ordinary goat cheese as well, from the coagulated casein in the goat milk. This is sold as "white goat cheese" in Norway, but is not at all common. (I believe it is far more common in some other cultures.)
But that brown stuff is not real cheese. It is what is not cheese, when the cheese has been taken out of the milk.
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Thanks for the explanation
So, my favourite cheese, isn't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My favourite cheese is ewe(sheep) cheese or brebis, which I have not actually had for years since I have not seen it on the shelf in the UK.
Must look for it the next time I shop.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Nah, I live in the country of cheese, every day is cheese lover's day. 
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I'm reading this book:
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need ... to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy[^]
It's a bit old (from 2012) but it is really great & as an IT-worker I highly suggest you read it.
It rips into the interview & hiring process. It debunks these silly tests/puzzles & it provides a history of how this all got started (goes back to old days of IBM & early silicon valley).
Plus, if you like puzzles there are some interesting ones & some really stupid ones.
Here's a sample of a real Google interview question: "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is reduced so that your density is the same as usual. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?"
This one is at least interesting and has a great solution that helped me learn a bit.
I never would've guessed the correct solution.
Have any of you read this book?
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I'm smart enough to not work at Google 
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That's what I was going to say!
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I'm too smart to work at Google!
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Smart enough to walk out of such an "interview".
"It's the fall that's gonna kill ya."
modified 20-Jan-22 11:21am.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "It's the fall that's gonna kill ya."
Funny that you should say that, because you're actually on the line of reasoning about how the solution to that blender puzzle is solved.
Again, I didn't know the answer either, <spoiler alert!>but they actually consider physics & how size affects living beings. Quite interesting.
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raddevus wrote: consider physics
I don't quite recall what prompted me to think about it -- possibly the Magic School Bus -- but I seem to recall something about characters being shrunk down to smaller than a water molecule to study water. And I'm like, "uh, no, they contain billions of water molecules themselves, there's just no way". They'd have to shrink atoms and sub-atomic particles and strings and all those turtles.
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Jump up when the blender starts and ride it like an indoor skydiving fan?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Or lie down near the hub.
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This is the only answer I could think of also and is actually one of the most credible solutions that is accepted. However, there is a better answer that is related to physics & size.
SPOILER -- apparently there is a lot of information on size of animals & ability to jump.
At this size you would be able to simply jump out of the blender -- if you ask interviewer she will tell you that there is no lid. Also when you land you will not be hurt because of size & gravity the way it relates to size.
For example if you drop a mouse down a 1000 foot mineshaft, when it hits it bounces & suffers no real damage. Drop a rat and sustains a broken bone or too. Drop a person and they are destroyed. drop a horse and it becomes a puddle. Size matters. 
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Except for that we cannot predict how the physics in such a universe would work based on the physics in this one.
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In absolute terms (not relative) a flea raises it’s center of gravity about a meter. Same for a horse that jumps a gate.
Cats get a head start by raising up on their hind legs before they jump.
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As soon as I saw "Google" "interview" I stopped reading.
No thank you.
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Bleah - it has exactly the same relationship with actual science as that that '60es movie: Fantastic Voyage[^]. And in that sprit, I would pull a phaser and blow away the blender.
Bonus backup plan: use my communicator to ask Scotty to beam me up
Mircea
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A nickel would have thickness and diameter (which way is "height"?) .... donk interviewer!
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I'd assume thickness, based on a nickel lying on a table.
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An ellipse (circle) has width and height.
A lot of assuming; including the coin lying flat ... on a table, etc.
Reasons why projects fail / come in over budget.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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An ellipse is two-dimensional; a coin is three-dimensional.
A circle has radius, and by extension diameter.
A joke I heard as a kid (early 70s):
Q: How many sides does a circle have?
A: Two; the inside and the outside.
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