# Limburger cheese **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006 "2003-06-01T21:46:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/1 "2003-06-01T21:46:22Z")
We all know limburger cheese from all the old cartoons, and we all know it really stinks, except to Pepi LePew. I recently saw it in the supermarket, and decided to try it. I thought, well, sure it stinks, but how bad could it be? I mean people must buy it and eat it, otherwise they wouldn’t still be making it, right? So I got it home and opened it, and was immediately overcome by a stench similar to very concentrated cat urine. So I thought, ok, it stinks, but how bad could it taste? So I held my breath and took a bite. Well it tastes like very concentrated cat urine. So my question is: do they make this stuff specifically for chumps like me, who are willing to try anything once, or are there people who actually like it? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/2 "2003-06-01T22:19:30Z")
Nope, people do love the stuff. Do a full-forum search on “cannibal sandwich” for a recipe. I’ve tried some and found it a little strong but edible. ---
**Author:** ![Conflict\_of\_Interest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Conflict\_of\_Interest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Conflict_of_Interest)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/3 "2003-06-01T23:00:29Z")
I first tried it as a child, my father loved the stuff. I think it has a strong but not a bad taste. I still enjoy it occationally The part that puzzles me is that you seem to think it tasts tastes like very concentrated cat urine \*\* panache45 \*\*. Is this part of your normal diet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/4 "2003-06-01T23:05:34Z")
I have found leaving pieces of limburger on the exhaust manifolds of automobiles to be a highly effective form of payback. The smell lingers for a few months till it all burns off. ---
**Author:** ![Swede\_Hollow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Swede\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swede_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/5 "2003-06-02T00:19:50Z")
I don’t mind limburger cheese every once in a while, but I like Bierkaese (beercase, beercaese, etc.) better. It has a stronger smell than limburger, but (in my opinion) a better taste. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/6 "2003-06-02T00:48:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > **Nope, people do love the stuff. Do a full-forum search on “cannibal sandwich” for a recipe.** I did a search and it found a sandwich with no limburger. Are you talking about the sandwich with raw hamburger and onions with limburger? ---
**Author:** ![lk1932](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aeb1de/32.png) [@lk1932](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lk1932)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/7 "2003-06-02T01:16:58Z")
I beleive that there is only one cheese factory in the United States that makes Limburger and that is in the small town of Monroe, Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/8 "2003-06-02T01:20:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I have found leaving pieces of limburger on the exhaust manifolds of automobiles to be a highly effective form of payback. Probably easier on cars that were made before interior remote bonnet releases became standard. ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/9 "2003-06-02T02:32:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lk1932 \* > \*\*I beleive that there is only one cheese factory in the United States that makes Limburger and that is in the small town of Monroe, Wisconsin. \*\* You are correct. I’ve never tried it myself if you happen to be in Monroe the place to have your Limburger sandwich is Baumgartner’s Tavern. And [The Great Limburger Cheese War](http://dailytidings.com/2001/news1107/columnists/columnists.php) is an interesting story. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/10 "2003-06-02T03:55:20Z")
And when you go to Baumgartner’s on the Square at Monroe, Wisconsin, you should have your Limburger cheese on dark rye bread with a big slice of Bermuda onion and a draw of Huber’s Beer. People will think you are a returned exile and let you sit at the back table, the one with ready access to the out the back door restrooms. Please note the paintings by Carl Marty, Sr., a cheese maker and cheese broker who immigrated from the Old Country at the age of 11 and sold out to Borden just before the depression. He spent the 35 years that the Lord left him painting scenes of 19th Century cheese making and the North Woods and writing poetry in a Swiss dialect that no one today can understand. Great tavern, great cheese, great old guy. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/11 "2003-06-02T04:01:32Z")
I love stinky cheese. I occasionally like a nice lagerkaese, which, as **Swede Hollow** has pointed out, smells a bit but has a heart of gold. I’ve had friends turn their nose up at _Morbier_ for being too stinky, which I find completely incomprehensible. Mmmmmmm. (Very hard to get out here, we have some silly laws against unpasteurized cheese. **panache45** , you might have a better cheese experience if you have an appropriate bevvy handy. Madeira goes perfectly with limburger, if you’re willing to make another attempt. I might be a bit of an iconoclast, but I like a nice glass of stout with both limburger and lagercaese. Anybody know how to get drool out of a keyboard? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/12 "2003-06-02T05:16:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > I did a search and it found a sandwich with no limburger. Are you talking about the sandwich with raw hamburger and onions with limburger? Yes, that is the one. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > … smells a bit but has a heart of gold … I told you to lay off the beans you whore! _I’ve only had three tins!!!_ Button your lip you rutbag! [/MP] ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/limburger-cheese/179006/13 "2003-06-02T13:34:38Z")
Hey **panache45** I had thoughts of starting a thread on limburger cheese just the other day but didn’t get it done. Thanks for remembering for me:D