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.
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.
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.
Somehow, I don’t think you’ll be doing both of those things in the same evening.
From my own personal point of view . . . I can think of few scenarios less appealing than these two. 