# What is the history of Limburger cheese? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492 "2009-11-13T21:53:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492/21 "2009-11-18T17:10:27Z")
I actually like it. I was curious about it and decided to give it a shot a few months ago. It doesn’t taste like it smells, it is really pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Lily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lily)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492/22 "2009-11-18T20:02:12Z")
Another Monroe-ite here. Growing up, it was mostly the elders who ate the limburger. Just as described above, on dark rye with onion and maybe mustard. I only started eating it a few years ago, and I really like it. It does smell, yes, but it’s a creamy cheese with a bite that builds up as you eat it. As **Slithy Tove** has said, the locals don’t have much to do with Baumgartner’s. It’s a nice enough place, but it tends to be polluted with fibs. My favorite place in the area to get a limburger sandwich is just up the road in New Glarus. Puempel’s Tavern serves a nice slab of cheese, and has some nifty century old murals on the wall, to boot. Tourists are still an issue, but it’s less annoying when it’s not _your_ town. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492/23 "2009-11-18T23:06:30Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Ah, now if only you could get some haggis stuffed with Limburger. Fit only for someone like **Qadgop** 😃 Never tried haggis. Another thing on my bucket list, along with the 4some with 3 women. Limburger’s okay, though. Nice flavor, though the smell is off-putting. I generally don’t keep any in the house, save for exceptional occasions. I took some to work one time; it cleared the breakroom. The only other person to try the sampler I brought was our cheese-fanatic psychiatrist who pronounced it a fine and tasty product, though he preferred “stinking bishop” cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492/24 "2009-11-18T23:28:25Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Never tried haggis. Another thing on my bucket list, along with the 4some with 3 women. Somehow, I don’t think you’ll be doing both of those things in the same evening. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492/25 "2009-11-18T23:39:01Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Never tried haggis. Another thing on my bucket list, along with the 4some with 3 women. From my own personal point of view . . . I can think of few scenarios less appealing than these two. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-history-of-limburger-cheese/517492.md?page=1)