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.

 

[YanmarFever]

When I was 12 years old a guy in our neighborhood had a very beautiful pontiac. One night someone had rubbed limberger cheese all over the dash, seats, carpet. and roof liner, can you imagine the smell ??

Well the rumor was that it was a gal he had jilted a few days earlier.

The smell was so bad that I always cringe when I hear limberger.

 

[MossRoad]

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

You ever met Chuck-E-Cheese? (I dislike that rat )

 

[MossRoad]

When I was a kid my grandpa would come to visit and he always had "that cheese" with him. Mom made him keep "that cheese" in a cooler out in his machine (that's what he called his vehicles). She would not let "that cheese" into her house. And this is the face we made when granpa opened "that cheese". We loved grandpa and got a big laugh when he would eat "that cheese" out on the picnic table each summer.

I miss my grandpa and "that cheese". RIP, Lou.

 

[riptides]

My parents were old world and very fond of it.

To this day I never tried it. I know they enjoyed it. RIP mom.

If it makes you shake it must be good for ya!

-Mike Z.

 

[B8FISH]

there is a small local restaurant/bar that is pretty famous for it's soup down the street from me--American Hotel in Lima, NY. Never had one but have seen the limberger sandwich on the menu. I've heard people order it (usually with onions liked mentioned above) but surprisingly have never noticed an odor coming from those tables!

 

[Egon]

Moss; probably stepping on Chucks head would make me like that cheese!

 

[ToadHill]

Two pieces of pumpernickle rye, cut the cheese about 1/2" thick, 1/2" sliced Onion. Feed it to the dog and leave the house.

 

[Rara Avis]

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?

Only in comedy sketches...

 

[billbill1]

Like fine wine, art, and classical music, one must acquire a taste for it. So far, I haven't.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Love that stuff. Alas America is kinda short on the cheese side. Over in Europe you can get quite few differetn brands of smelly cheese:

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use this one on your pasta or put some of them in stired eggs.

Or put sharp cheese on sweet roll - the taste in contrast is great.