Limburger cheese.

[TommyMac]

Are there any brave souls out there that actually eat and enjoy this putrid smelling concoction? If so, how in the world did you ever get past the smell? That smell is enough to run a maggot off a gut truck. I can't imagine the first guy who ever made it, taking a whiff of it and saying "Wonder what it tastes like?" That, my friends was a mighty brave man. Or, he was hammered beyond belief.

 

[bayoutider]

Alas, I have eaten Limburger a few times but have never bought it myself. The taste is much milder than the smell. There are a variety of cheeses known as "Stinky Cheese". Among these stinky cheeses are cambembert known as the queen of cheeses, brie, most blues, taleggio and other, mostly soft and semi-soft, lesser known cheese.

If you let the cheese sit and air out a bit, the smell is lessened a little. Most people store cheese in the fridge (a few do need to be refrigerated) when all they really need is to be wrapped but able to breath, kept moist but not wet and kept in a cool place away from direct light. Cheese should be served at close to room temperature. Cheese should be unwrapped and allowed to come to room temp about an hour before serving.

I admit it is hard to get past the smell but the flavor is quite different. Limburger is often paired with onions and liverworst on rye bread for an oddly delicious sandwich. Of course it helps to have oddly diversified tastes and sinus congestion.

 

[TommyMac]

I'm pretty impressed Bayou. I go far enough back as a firefighter that CPR meant mouth-to-mouth and I've had a few folks upchuck on me in the process so I've got a pretty strong stomach, but I don't think I could ever get past that smell. Maybe you should've been a firefighter.

 

[FitToBeTide]

One taste of Limburger many years ago that belonged to my Dad. The smell was beyond my ability to ignore it and enjoy the cheese. Mom would make him sit on the back porch to eat it. Then it would be tightly contained before bringing it back inside.

:biga2::

 

[bayoutider]

Hehe, I remember years ago when one of our gang got married we put limburger in the heat duct of his car and a tin of sardines on the intake manifold. We had to make some serious amends for that sorry act.