Smelly cheese

[Barry Shnikov]

WARNING!!!

DO NOT READ THIS POST IF YOU ARE EATING, OR JUST ABOUT TO EAT.

I just love smelly cheese; a good, mature, runny brie with some fresh bread and butter is (almost) as good as sex.

The smelliest cheese I ever ate was a french cheese called Marouilles; it literally smelled like - soiled nappies. My ex-wife refused to have it in the house ever again - although we both loved the taste. (We did chicken out, I'm afraid, and cut off the rind, which is the smelliest bit; the french, I believe, do not do so...)

What's your best or worst experience?

[Double Trouble]

My ex-wife refused to have it in the house ever again

Could have been worse. Your ex-wife could have refused to have you back in the house because your feet smelt like cheese/soiled nappies.

[Barry Shnikov]

Could have been worse. Your ex-wife could have refused to have you back in the house because your feet smelt like cheese/soiled nappies.

Never had the problem of smelly feet, not since I gave up wearing shoes that weren't made of leather at age about 12.

[Trouble]

smelliest cheese i ever ate was Stilton. Thats about as strong as ive ever gone and dont think i could take it any stronger.

I love Brie though, especially with chopped up bacon, its delicious.

[DJ Andy]

A really ripe Camembert can have a very penetrating pong but thankfully tastes nothing like it smells!

A famously smelly British cheese is 'Stinking Bishop'. This is a rind-washed cheese, and gets its name from the variety of pear used to make the perry which the maker's use to wash the cheese-rind in.

So the French aren't the only ones who can make smelly cheese!

[Freudian Hips]

I love smelly cheese especially anything blue, of goat/sheep origin and running off the table.

Unfortunately I am a bit intolerant of milk so I can't have it very often

However, very, very occasionally it is worth the discomfort

[Barry Shnikov]

A really ripe Camembert can have a very penetrating pong but thankfully tastes nothing like it smells!

A famously smelly British cheese is 'Stinking Bishop'. This is a rind-washed cheese, and gets its name from the variety of pear used to make the perry which the maker's use to wash the cheese-rind in.

So the French aren't the only ones who can make smelly cheese!

Marouilles is a rind-washed cheese. They seem to be by far the smelliest.

[David Franklin]

Don't know how it smells, but google on 'cheese con gusano' if you want to lose your appetite...

[Barry Shnikov]

When I were a lad, I used to go shopping with me Mam in St Ives. There was a - I guess a grocery shop called 'Daysway' run by Mr Day. He used to cut bacon on a machine - "half a pound of smoked cut-through, please", and he'd get the block of meat out and slice it onto the scales.

He used to sell cheese by the pound as well. I remember he once told us a story about how his Dad used to bury cheese out in the garden - I presume wrapped, or something, but I don't really know - and then bring it back in for eating some time later. The cheese would have worms and maggots in and Mr Day claimed that they would eat the whole thing (wriggle wriggle) and that it really improved the taste of the cheese.

I wonder if he was serious, or whether he was surreptitiously winking at my mum while I was staring open-mouthed at the horror of the tale he was telling...

[Trouble]

When I were a lad a century ago


. The cheese would have worms and maggots in and Mr Day claimed that they would eat the whole thing (wriggle wriggle) and that it really improved the taste of the cheese.

Really am not going to eat my cheese roll.

[Stuart M]

The smelliest cheese I ever ate was a french cheese called Marouilles; it literally smelled like - soiled nappies. My ex-wife refused to have it in the house ever again - although we both loved the taste. (We did chicken out, I'm afraid, and cut off the rind, which is the smelliest bit; the french, I believe, do not do so...)

What's your best or worst experience?

Me and my other half are cheese fans, although whilst I prefer a roof-of-mouth-numbing blue, she's a fan of those runny soft French ones (the number one thing she's missing in her current pregnant state!). Have you tried St. Albrey? Very much your line of thing.

My favourite, which is fairly easy to get, is Picos de Europa, from the Cantabrian region in the north of Spain.

[Aleks]

The cheese would have worms and maggots in and Mr Day claimed that they would eat the whole thing (wriggle wriggle) and that it really improved the taste of the cheese.

I have seen someone eat this stuff. I wasn't offered any to try, but as long as I didn't have to eat the (live) maggot, I would be prepared to try the cheese.

[Stuart M]

I have seen someone eat this stuff. I wasn't offered any to try, but as long as I didn't have to eat the (live) maggot, I would be prepared to try the cheese.

But surely the risk of that "half maggot" moment is part of the thrill?

[Aleks]

But surely the risk of that "half maggot" moment is part of the thrill?

I suppose I could stretch to dead maggot, but probably not a live one.

(Resists desire to mention distaste for the idea of things wiggling in the mouth, knowing that someone will come back with a wise-ass answer)

[ducasi]

Can someone explain something to me...

They say that most of your taste is actually smell – so how can nasty-smelling cheese possibly taste nice?

Anyone like tripe?

[Caro]

The cheese would have worms ...

well in corsica there's a famous cheese called casgiu merzu which does contain little white worms... and yes people do actually eat that stuff.

[azande]

Typical cheese from my region: Brös

[whitetiger1518]

I love smelly cheese especially anything blue, of goat/sheep origin and running off the table.

Unfortunately I am a bit intolerant of milk so I can't have it very often

However, very, very occasionally it is worth the discomfort

Hi there Freudian Hips,
Have you tried here Mellis's Cheesemongers unfortunately they don't seem to have a dundee shop, but they are worth travelling to if you need specialist cheese. They do all sorts of weird and wonderful cheese - so they should be able to try and sort you out.. (Or at least minimalise the effects when you do indulge.)



Whitetiger