OT: limburger

AMF · #1 January 10th, 2005, 10:46 AM

I like cheese. Worked my way through college in delis. Cheese is good. All kinds of cheese. Almost.

This weekend my wife and I, on a lark, picked up some limburger. I had heard it was the stinkiest cheese out there, and thought it must be good then. The way to eat it is with guiness, on pumpernickel, with red onions.

A word of warning and perhaps a dare to all out there: limburger has got to be one of the most foul smelling things that are supposed to be edible in the world. I've eaten a bunch of weird stuff, scorpions, dog, raw horse, raw snails on sticks, japanese natto, even pupae stew...but I couldn't get more than one bite of limburger down my gullet before we chucked it into the trash. There is not enough guiness in the world to wash that smell out of my memory.

If you're feeling particularly daring, I reccomend going to your local cheese shop and trying it out.

For some reason, I just had to share this with y'all.

Thanks,

Alarik

TurinTurambar · #2 January 10th, 2005, 12:27 PM

And, just to gross you out further, scientists isolated the source of bacteria culture used to make limberger about 10 or 12 years ago.

The source: Bovine urine.

Yes, my friend, that's right. Someone let the cow p1$$ in the milk bucket, left it sitting in the barn for a month, and a delicacy was born!

Bon Apetit!

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AMF · #3 January 10th, 2005, 01:08 PM

Lovely. So, now I can actually say I've eaten cow p*ss. Just lovely.

EDIT: took out the phrase "I need to take a shower" becuase the word 'shower' is definitely not the word I wanted to use in this discussion of cow p*ss...if you know what I mean.

Timstone · #4 January 10th, 2005, 03:34 PM

First of all, congrats on your healthy appetite and love for cheese.
Second, ever tried Dutch cheese?
Thirdly, Guiness is something they invented in Britain. It was born our of pure desperation. The river Thames was so polluted they began selling it as "beer". Nowadays they call that stuff Guiness.
When the Brits ran out of dirty water, they tried replicating it. They succeeded... in making it even more distasteful. Bleh...

kerensky · #5 January 10th, 2005, 08:30 PM

My grandparents liove in Wisconsin, so whenever we visit them we always visit a cheeseshop[ down the road from them. They normally have one brick of limburger on the shelf. It's double wrapped in foil, followed by a double wrapping of pLastic wrap, and then its put in a ziploc bag....

Never tried the stuff, but I can imagine that it smells something awful.

TurinTurambar · #6 January 10th, 2005, 09:13 PM

<-------- Wisconsin Native. Loves cheese!

<Does NOT love Limberger>