Brie VS Camembert Cheese

While programming today on my new TVGuide for OSX I felt a little hungry so my wife and I nipped down to the local shops to get some food. We ended up deciding on cheese to fill our tummies. While looking at the shelves of cheese we choose to go with a Brie cheese, but wait, there is also Camembert. This got us thinking about what is actually the difference between the two cheeses, this is how our little experiment started.

Purchasing a Brie and Camembert from the same brand name we went home to try and see if we could taste the difference. RESULT: “no observable taste or visual difference”, therefore it was time to hit Google to try and find out what the difference was. After an exhaustive search of the Internet, 3 minutes later, we came to the conclusion that there is actually NO difference other than that originally 260 years ago when Brie and Camembert were first created it came from two different regions in France, Brie and Camembert. This leads to the names, also as these cheeses were from two different regions there would have been a slight difference in taste because they would have different cows and grasses to feed the cows, which can influence the flavour of cheese. However many of the Brie and Camembert we eat today do not come from Brie and Camembert so really it is all a marketing scam so they can sell the same product twice. No longer can they fool us, the jig is up.