# Limburger Cheese, how do you eat it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272 "2001-10-29T10:56:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/21 "2001-11-02T08:37:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*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_ \*\* After my first taste, I actually threw the entire brick out my third floor window, as I couldn’t stand to have the stuff near me. And lemme tell you, that taste lingers on your tongue. It isn’t often that you find a food product which makes you long for the sweet scent of ammonia. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/22 "2001-11-02T13:36:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > **Never has anything gone in and back out of my mouth so quickly.** That’s not what I heard… geeze, that was uncalled for. sorry. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/23 "2001-11-02T19:42:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by J248974 \* > \*\*I’ve come across roadkill simmering in the hot summer sun for a few days that smelled better. \*\* I’m trying to picture how one would intentionally get close enough to roadkill to smell it. When I lived in Cincinnati a neighbor traditionally ate Limburger cheese and a Blind Robin at New Years. The first year I thought I’d barf before I got the cheese down. The next year, it was in a sandwich and one of the best cheese sandwiches I’ve ever eaten. I don’t remember if I ate any of the Blind Robin (a smoked fish). ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/24 "2001-11-03T03:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > > **Never has anything gone in and back out of my mouth so quickly.** > > That’s not what I heard… > > geeze, that was uncalled for. sorry. \*\* BWAAAAHAHHAAAA!!.. HEY!!! Good one though. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2001, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/25 "2001-11-03T14:40:00Z")
Something just occurred to me. How easy is it for your people to GET Limburger cheese? In New York City, it’s not something you come across in the supermarket. And the fancy-schmancy cheese shops offer Irish Cheddars and boutique farmers’ Chevres and Venezuelian Beaver Cheese, but are hard put to offer something as prosaic as Limburger. If I want it, I have to travel all the way up to the old German-American neighborhood of Yorkville on the upper east side of Manhattan. Schaller & Weber, on 2nd Aveune, carries the stuff, and while I’m there I can stock up on bauenwurst and those dense greasy loaves of Pumpernickel. Do you people encounter Limburger on a regular basis? If so, where are you ethno-geographically? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/26 "2001-11-03T14:44:12Z")
I’ve seen it in general supermarkets here in South East Florida, North or Ft. Lauderdale. Just saw it yesterday at Albertsons (made me think of this thread) and it was sold at a Winn Dixie I used to work at while going to college. ---
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/27 "2001-11-04T00:02:56Z")
They’re selling a few different brands of Limburger at the Cub Foods in Minneapolis. A brick of it about size of a stick of butter costs about $3.50. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/28 "2001-11-04T06:20:07Z")
**Mudshark’s 5 easy steps to eating Limburger cheese** 1. After purchasing cheese, place it in the 'fridge. 2. Place a clothespin on your nose. 3. Take the aforementioned Limburger and proceed to cut it into small pieces. (yes, you get to cut the cheese) 4. Hold your breath 5. Proceed to place the “Limburger pieces” into your mouth and chew (see previous chapter on how to chew) ---
**Author:** ![phartizan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba8739/32.png) [@phartizan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phartizan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272/29 "2001-11-04T11:51:53Z")
In the small midwest college town where I live, it’s available at a speciality grocer that caters to the foreign students, but a supermarket also has the Kraft brand. It comes in a jar, and I believe it’s _processed_ cheese.:eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese-how-do-you-eat-it/90272.md?page=1)