Limberger Cheese

[coachgrd]

I'm just curious, do any of you enjoy Limberger cheese?

My Dad would eat it back in the day and I was always amazed someone would put something so foul smelling in thier mouth.

What is the best way to eat it?

 

[RobS]

I can't comment on the Limberger but my wife hates my bleu cheeses. One of my favorites is English Stilton which is especially fragrant. I remember a stand up comic line from years ago... "How do you tell when bleu cheese goes bad?"

I like my cheese on a fairly bland cracker like a water cracker. Ritz and such compete with the flavor of good cheese. I also happen to like bleu cheese stuffed in olives, surrounded by extremely cold gin and a whisper of vermouth.

 

[Bird]

I've always heard of limberger and its foul smell, but to the best of my recollection, I've never actually even seen or smelled any. And Rob, I've tried the bleu cheese and bleu cheese salad dressing, and like your wife, I'll pass. The best I can recall, that's the only cheese I've tried that I didn't like.

 

[WayneB]

I'm just curious, do any of you enjoy Limberger cheese?

My Dad would eat it back in the day and I was always amazed someone would put something so foul smelling in thier mouth.

What is the best way to eat it?

Well like they say "if you haven't tried it don't judge it"

So go out and buy the cheese, get a nice large sweet onion and dark German rye bread (best if it is a loaf and not sliced)

Cut the bread rather thin, slice the cheese and onion medium thickness, put it all together and sit down and enjoy.

 

[pwl]

I second the sweet onion and rye, with a nice frosty mug of beer. That's livin'.

 

[Egon]

I haven't come across a "Cheese" that I did not like!

 

[LMTC]

Limburger. And not the processed crud in a jar by Kraft or others that you spread, but the real stuff in blocks (usually wrapped in sealed foil) that you cut (hence the old saying re: "who cut the cheese"). Sliced onion, dark rye, lightly salted, dark beer. Most of my family loves the stuff, but the few that don't like it absolutely hate it. It definitely has a bite (at least the good stuff) and I've yet to find anything to adequately remove it from one's breath in less than 24-36 hours. Do NOT...repeat, do NOT spill any pieces of it anywhere, or leave partial sandwiches in the trash in the house. Much as I like it, it can create one foul odor (see reference above to old euphemism regarding cheese) after sitting warm for a while.

 

[kenmac]

I can remember when I was a kid & would into my grandfather's house & smelled that very bad odor that he had the Limbuger cheese out. I guess that's why I have never even tried it till this day ! Just can't get past the smell !!

 

[Tig]

Sounds like a snack to take to the hunting camp. I love cheeses, gotta try some when I get a chance.
The best blue cheese has crunchy bits in it!

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

I second the sweet onion and rye, with a nice frosty mug of beer. That's livin'.

I will "third" that...it is how I like to make them also.