I bought some last week on a lark.
Good God! It tastes just like it smells.
Does anyone here like it and eat it regularly?
im told you wrap it up in foil and put it in the freezer and it gets rid of the smell
my great grandfather being german used to eat that and bruanschweiger on ritz crackers with german beer
now this was on sunday when he could only have one or 2 becuase of prohibition but since it was a largely german farming community they passed a law sayng it was ok to have one on sunday
ive never tried it much my self since I perfer swiss
It’s definitely not for everybody but you get your best results by serving with strong-flavored dark breads.
I would also caution you about just where you try to partake of this delicacy. The one time I brought some to work, I caught so much grief from my co-workers that I never brought it again.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy cheese that doesn’t smell like a turd in the first place?
i lived with a french family for a month and their attitude was “the stinkier the better.” they swear up and down that smelly cheese doesn’t taste like it smells, but i didn’t have the courage to try the especially stinky stuff.
the way they do it: they store it between two plates and only take off the first plate long enough to cut a slice so they don’t smell the whole of the nastiness when they actually taste the cheese. and always, it is accompanied with port or red wine. (some french cheese are surprisingly good! i’m impressed with your courage and initiative. . . )
It’s actually rather mild in flavor. The bouquet is stronger than the taste, I always found.
Bring it to room temperature and spread it on thin slices of rye or pumpernickel, with sliced raw onion on the side and plenty of beer.
Amen Ike! When I was a kid my dad and his buddy would watch footbal and eat “cannibal sandwiches”. A slice of dark rye bread, limburger cheese, sliced red onion, and a dollop of raw but fresh ground sirloin. Of course they drank plenty of beer with them. I do my own version of cannibal sandwiches minus the raw meat and they’re really good. Of course I drink plenty of beer with them. Limburger can be surprisingly mild if you serve it on a strong flavored bread. When it gets warm I’ve noticed there’s not much you can do about the stink.
I’m glad to hear that. If it tasted like it smelled, and someone actually likes that, I recommend they pursue a career in German scheisse movies with Cartman’s mom.
I would definitely not eat it on a lark. Larks are too mild in flavor. I would suggest eating limburger with a nice seagull pate, or perhaps thinly sliced rancid penguin liver.
(Actually, I rather liked limburger the few times I’ve had it.)
I attended a little workshop one Saturday sponsored by the university’s ag department on cheese appreciation, complete with tasting.
It’s been quite some time ago and I forgot most of what they told me, but I do remember about the limburger. According to them, it must be served warm. I sampled my piece, which was solid enough to sit on a cracker yet liquid enough to qualify as “melted cheese” and found it rather good! Stinky, though.
On a bagel with onion & tomato; let it “ferment” wrapped in plastic in your brown paper bag. The cheese & the tomato taste great together when the cheese softens.It’s an acquired taste. :rolleyes: Eat alone, unless you know someone else who’s adventurous.
Limburger,dark rye bread,sliced red onion and cold beer equals a wonderful evening. I even appreciate the aroma once I learned what a wonderful flavor it precedes. Oh, I talked me into it, I think I’ll build a fire and go buy some Limburger and beer!
When I was a kid during the Truman and first Eisenhower Administrations my father would actually salivate like Pavloff’s dogs at the thought of driving 450 miles to see my mothers grandparents in Monroe, Wis. The old man and my great-grandfather would go down to Bumgartner’s Tavern on the town square for a Limburger and onion on pumpernickel with as much of the local brew as the two of them could hold. This was for lunch. About three in the afternoon the two of them would come rolling home–stinking, figuratively and literally. It’s a great memory.
Had it once. I would literally rather stick my head in a public toilet than ever eat it again. Mind you, I’ve never eaten feces before, and don’t plan to, but Limburger tastes like what I imagine shit would taste like. Yuck yuck yuck.
(Mark Twain wrote a rather funny story involving Limburger, called “The Invalid’s Story.” Good stuff.)
This sounds disgustingly good. I will have to give it a try sometime. Thank you for sharing.
I have been furtively eyeing the Limburger at the store for some time now. I even heft the little bricks ocassionally to build up my nerve for the day when I finally buy some. At least I now have a recipe to go along with it. Please remind me to buy several gallons of beer to swill with it.
A few months ago, in Cycle World Magazine, Peter Egan wrote a column about a bar in Wisconsin that serves Limburger and onion sandwiches. That sounded pretty good to me, so I made some of my own, being a few hundred miles from Wisconsin.
My version was Limburger on toasted rye with a thin slice of onion, prepared like a grilled cheese. Great stuff.
I’ve seen those at the Wisconsin State Fair. Grilled limburger sandwiches.
From a good long distance. I may enjoy stinky cheese, but I see no earthly reason to HEAT IT UP.
heh my grandmother who is secod generation german response to this was " why not ask the irsh side to the family to just open a can of dog food and boil lettuce on st pats day"
note she hates corned beef and cabbage which my grandfather loves and used to eat often and he hated limburger cheese which she ate a lot at oktoberfest parties and special occasions
So i guess with some its a heritage thing
I can’t get it close enough to my mouth to taste it because the stench makes me gag! It even reeks through the wrapper! I’ve come across roadkill simmering in the hot summer sun for a few days that smelled better.
Never has anything gone in and back out of my mouth so quickly.
It all happened cause I was feeling a little artsy. Going to low budget art movies. Eating fancy goat cheese. Thought hey, it can’t be as bad as it’s supposed to be, give it a try. shudder