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    Post #1 - May 22nd, 2010, 10:45 am
    Post #1 - May 22nd, 2010, 10:45 am Post #1 - May 22nd, 2010, 10:45 am
    Found this post on Elmhurst Freecycle. I figure if anyone might be interested, it would be someone from LTH. If interested, email crash@dd973.org:

    Do you like stinky cheese? I have a challenge for you.

    Here are three wedges (12oz each) of "Gethsemane Farms Trappist Cheese". My brother-in-law gets this every year; I think it's part of a fund-raiser. He can't stand the stuff.

    Last year I tried it out because I'm generally pretty adventurous, gastronomically speaking. Upon opening the first wedge I had to leave the room.

    After a few minutes of oxygen in the back yard I took a deep breath and some tongs, and evacuated the offender to the compost heap. Raccoons and possums avoided our yard for the next month.

    Each of these three wedges is a different flavor: There's Aged, Smoky, and Mild. It's possible the "Mild" may not be stinky, but frankly I'm not interested in making the experiment.

    If you're a fan of surströmming ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming ) this is probably your new favorite cheese.

    Any takers?
    Ms. Ingie
    Life is too short, why skip dessert?
  • Post #2 - May 23rd, 2010, 12:44 am
    Post #2 - May 23rd, 2010, 12:44 am Post #2 - May 23rd, 2010, 12:44 am
    I think I heard an interview on "The Splendid Table" recently with a Wisconsin maker of Limburger cheese, and he mentioned, iirc, the Trappist label. I wonder if the cheese in question was from that Wisconsin maker. Not that I'm in a hurry to seek out and subject myself to stinky cheeses, but I did note that he said that odor notwithstanding, the flavor in the mouth was a different and far more pleasurable thing, which made me think I'd be willing to try it at least once. I think he said the traditional way to eat it was on a brown (rye? pumpernickel?) bread with something else ... red onions, perhaps? Sorry for the fuzzy recall; it was a few weeks ago.
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  • Post #3 - May 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm
    Post #3 - May 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm Post #3 - May 24th, 2010, 4:19 pm
    I have to say that the subject heading, to me, embodies a lot of what makes this a great board. That the post itself references "surstromming," a conceptual benchmark for the Barolo family, puts the whole thing over the top.
    (I still don't want any, though.)
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  • Post #4 - April 17th, 2014, 5:05 pm
    Post #4 - April 17th, 2014, 5:05 pm Post #4 - April 17th, 2014, 5:05 pm
    This is in French with English subtitles if you click on 'cc.'

    Cathy2

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  • Post #5 - April 17th, 2014, 5:31 pm
    Post #5 - April 17th, 2014, 5:31 pm Post #5 - April 17th, 2014, 5:31 pm
    Is this from the Gethsamane Farms in Kentucky? If so, I've had their cheese quite a few times and never found it "too" stinky.... But then I have a sister who gets cravings for limburger--on rye--with raw onion....

    https://www.gethsemanifarms.org/cheese.aspx
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