Howdy. Oh, and, Cheese!

The laptop is back online. I don't have anything particularly interesting to disclose or fling out at y'all, but for those interested; 'hello again.'
Although.... I've been thinking about cheese quite a bit and, although I have nothing original to donate to the subject, for those of you whomever've explored this particular delicacy, there is a wealth of very interesting history recorded on the origin of what we now know as cheese.
It's been around since approx. 4,000 b.c.. According to the scholars, milk was transported in the excised bellys of calves. The lining of a calfs' belly contains rennet. Rennet is an ingredient that helps milk to coagulate. After a long day traversing the desert, perhaps, a nomad took the belly-flask to his/her lips for a draught of nourishing milk and found that a portion the milk had condensed.
The flavour wasn't unfavorable and the coagulated globules satiated hunger while the fluid that suspended the globules therein slaked thirst. Hence: Curds and whey.
Mesopotamia?
The discovery of curds and whey led to the developement of cheese. Although it was a tasty advent, the process of making safe-to-eat, delicious cheese was a hazardous one.
For a long time people equated the consumption of cheese with the realization of a deathwish.
The elements of cheese contain powerful antibacterial agents. Yogurt, in it's truest form, contains about .09% penicillin. (I could be off a bit here; do your own research...)
The problem was that folks in those days had never seen bacteria and wouldn't until the late 17th century. The antibacterial component of cheese needed time to do it's job and folks were devouring the cheese before the antibac had a chance to work it's magic.
During a period of epidemic the cost of eating milk, butter, or cheese was death. Via the Venetian senate, 1699... The same year that one Dutchman improved the microscope of his day and viewed, for the first time ever recorded, bacteria. Then, Pasteur, yadda yadda...
In multiple screenplays written by Shakespeare, if you know where to look, nasty references were made to cheese and those who ate it.
Today, a weak turn of phrase or a wimpy gesture will be referred to as, 'cheesy.'
Because I love cheese, I've always wondered where that came from. Now I do. Neat...