# Less common cheeses that you have tried **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521 "2018-10-26T00:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/41 "2018-10-27T01:50:39Z")
**Athena:**. Taleggio is one of my favorites. Mild and creamy as an after-dinner cheese, with the remaining red wine. Marvelously pungent when melted into an omelette or baked on top of a homemade pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/42 "2018-10-27T01:53:50Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > P’tit Basque sheep’s milk cheese. Interesting. I’m always looking for a good sheep cheese. A true buffalo mozzarella cheese is also divine. I once sampled some freshly made stuff, put together by a young entrepreneur who was hoping to find a local market for it. so creamy, and the olive oil was the perfect accompaniment. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/43 "2018-10-27T01:54:22Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > actually great grandpa Cauffman used to eat limburger cheese along with his sunday beer (apparently despite prohibition there was a local law that said beer was ok between 3 and 5 on sundays and no more than 2 pints per person) Cite for “Sunday beer”? Prohibition was enacted via Constitutional Amendment. No local law can override that. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/44 "2018-10-27T01:54:44Z")
Morbier is rank and unpleasant? Sounds to me like they got their hands on some rotten Morbier. My Morbiers have always been creamy and delicious, with no rankness at all. Double Gloucester, OTOH, in its onion and chive variation, sends people out of the room when it’s cut. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/45 "2018-10-27T02:48:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Morbier is rank and unpleasant? Sounds to me like they got their hands on some rotten Morbier. My Morbiers have always been creamy and delicious, with no rankness at all. My experience, too. It’s not a particularly funky cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/46 "2018-10-27T02:55:07Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Morbier is rank and unpleasant? Sounds to me like they got their hands on some rotten Morbier. My Morbiers have always been creamy and delicious, with no rankness at all. > > Double Gloucester, OTOH, in its onion and chive variation, sends people out of the room when it’s cut. > [@pulykamell](#): > > My experience, too. It’s not a particularly funky cheese. I’ll third this. Morbier was almost an afterthought to me when I mentioned it. It’s good, but nothing funky or scary compared to some of the cheeses mentioned here. Heck, a good Roquefort is stinky-as-hell compared to Morbier. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/47 "2018-10-27T05:14:18Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I’ll third this. Morbier was almost an afterthought to me when I mentioned it. It’s good, but nothing funky or scary compared to some of the cheeses mentioned here. Heck, a good Roquefort is stinky-as-hell compared to Morbier. If you misinterpret its name as “More Beer”, you automatically know how to respond if the cheese itself isn’t up to standards. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/48 "2018-10-27T05:35:30Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Interesting. I’m always looking for a good sheep cheese. > > A true buffalo mozzarella cheese is also divine. I once sampled some freshly made stuff, put together by a young entrepreneur who was hoping to find a local market for it. so creamy, and the olive oil was the perfect accompaniment. Oh, I quite like it. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/49 "2018-10-27T05:47:19Z")
Best cheese I ever had was in a Tibetan monastery set in a cave after a really long climb up from the upper reaches of the Yangzi river. It was a soft brie like cheese either from yaks or goats. not sure which. Heavenly (pardon the pun). I’ve had several other yak and goat cheeses in Tibet that were mighty tasty but nothing compared with that one monastery. The hard, curdled yak cheese dried into little pellets are not so good. These keep forever in the high altitude country, and must be soaked for a significant amount of time in yak butter tea before becoming chewable. Otherwise, these are “rock” like pellets that keep for years , provide needed protein, keep the milk for long term, but watch your teeth. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/50 "2018-10-27T07:58:16Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > P’tit Basque sheep’s milk cheese. That’s the one that I found at Costco I think? Pretty good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/51 "2018-10-27T14:28:06Z")
I’ve become quite fond of [Cheese.com](https://www.cheese.com/) as a resource. It lists cheeses by country of origin, the type of animal it’s derived from, type, fat content, texture, flavor, what it goes with, and more. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/52 "2018-10-27T21:56:29Z")
I’ve tried a couple of Danish cheeses brought back from holiday. One was a lovely mild number, dotted throughout with cumin seeds - a surprisingly great idea. The other was so vile I could tell that my wife had unwrapped it, hours after the event, as I forbade her from eating it around me. It stank and tasted of rotting mammal. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/53 "2018-10-28T05:07:47Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Cite for “Sunday beer”? Prohibition was enacted via Constitutional Amendment. > > No local law can override that. So? Marijuana is still illegal by federal law, but “legal” in plenty of states. Separate sovereigns. Yes, the FBI can get involved, but if there’s no real trouble, why would they? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/54 "2018-10-28T05:22:10Z")
So no cites. Stories passed down from great grandpa are not cites. ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/55 "2018-10-28T06:04:29Z")
I have a feeling great grandpa was drinking illegally, and covering up that fact for the sake of the kids. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/56 "2018-10-28T10:54:42Z")
Ohhhhh, man, I love oscypek. Probably, mostly because it’s so hard for me to obtain. If anyone knows a source that doesn’t involve dealing with my less-than-pleasant Polish relatives, lemme know! ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/57 "2018-10-29T04:28:03Z")
A local cheese shop carried [cabra raiano](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cabra-Raiano-by-Casa-Lusa/183895205) for a while. It’s an aged goat milk cheese with a creamy texture and a sort or herbal flavor. I wish I could get it again. Lovers of aged gouda should look for [Ewephoria](https://www.murrayscheese.com/ewephoria), a gouda-style cheese made from sheep’s milk. It has the butterscotch notes of aged gouda along with the richness and crumbly texture of sheep’s milk. There are also goat milk goudas. I like those a lot, too. One of my favorite domestic cheeses is [Humboldt Fog](https://www.cypressgrovecheese.com/cheese/soft-ripened-cheeses/humboldt-fog.html), made by the Cypress Grove company. It’s a soft-ripening goat’s milk cheese with a layer of wood ash in the middle and on the outside. The ashes raise the pH of the cheese, encouraging the growth of the correct molds for ripening. This cheese improves with age (to a point)—the outer part of the cheese becomes soft and translucent. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/58 "2018-10-30T19:17:07Z")
Not Casu marzu, but I have encountered a cheese assortment (Neufchâtel, Saint-Félicien, Maroilles, crottins de chèvre, IIRC) that had been inadvertently “ripened” a couple of months past the canonical expiration date, at who knows what temperatures. Absolutely no ill effects from tasting it, but the flavour was crazy, unfortunately with more than a hint of spoilage. Casu marzu may be left out in the sun, but at least there the maggots let you know whether or not the cheese is safe to eat (if they are still alive, it’s OK). which reminds me: [https://static.ripostelaique.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Asterix-en-Corse-fromage.jpg](https://static.ripostelaique.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Asterix-en-Corse-fromage.jpg) [![](https://renaudfavier.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asterix-en-corse.jpg) ](https://renaudfavier.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/asterix-en-corse.jpg) [![](https://www.letournepage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/asterix_corse-1.jpg) ](https://www.letournepage.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/asterix_corse-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/59 "2018-10-30T19:26:55Z")
Probably not that unusual, but I love Camembert once it gets runny and pungent. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521/60 "2018-11-04T12:59:53Z")
I _like_ stinky, sharp, strong cheese, and I’m willing to at least try a taste of any kind- except for Casa Marzu with live grubs in it (which I suspect is a joke the locals play on tourists and foodies and foodie tourists, not something they actually eat by choice themselves). That definitely includes Limburger and Gammelost cheeses, if I ever get a chance to sample them. Unusual cheeses i have eaten: **Stilton** is stupendous! The more it smells like graveyard mold the better it is, too. **Kasseri** is killer! (salty with a unique raunch that its detractors compare to the smell of dirty human feet; all i know is it tastes _gooood_). **Port Salut** , I salute you! (It’s a very creamy smooth and rich French that tastes like _really good butter_, but with a distinctive cheese raunch). I don’t remember the name of this last one, but it’s white, Mexican, strong flavored and slightly hard–and instead of a rind per se, the outside has a coat of _powerful_ hot peppers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/less-common-cheeses-that-you-have-tried/823521.md?page=4)