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Im afraid you are very wrong my friend , no cheese should be refrigerated it completely kills the flavour .But yes u do need to eat most rind cheeses when they are matured.
I like most cheeses , a current favorite of mine is a mature Lancashire Blue , produced at a small farm near my home.
The problem is camemberts are refrigerated when you buy them and if you leave them out straight away after a few days when they're ready to eat the inside of the cheese hasn't all turned runny, there's still a big lump of solid stuff. So you need to let it gradually rot in the fridge till its expiry date then speed the process up at room temperature for a few days after that. Even better would be to find a supplier of camemberts made with unpasteurised milk but they don't export them outside France.

The inside of the cheese should look like this when you break the rind :




If you don't let it mature and start it well before expiry date it looks like this when you open it :




and it doesn't have the wonderful smell you get when it's ripe.
I get the feeling you'd be one of the few people who'd enjoy working with old socks.
That line really did make me laugh out loud!!

Sorry Kirkland no offense from me laughing, it's just a good line.