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Camembert Cheese

Mmmmhhh, breading a Camembert and then deep frying it. Very tasty. Especially in combination with jam made of these.

But as to the OP, no, Camembert does not stink or even smell strongly. For the real stink try something like Harzer. Even your fridge will stink after a day or two if you put that cheese in it.

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Durian smells like semen? I've always thought it smelled like rotting mango. There was an ice cream shop in Saigon I used to frequent where the durian ice cream sometimes made the other ice cream have a feint flavor of durian. I hated that.
 
One of those stinky cheeses (was it Limburger?) was actually inoculated with toe cheese.
Monks would stomp around in it bare-foot. I forget where I read this.
 
I am a Dutchman that doesn't like cheese. (one of our nations nicknames is KaasKop (CheeseHead) so that's pretty rare already, not liking cheese.

I think normal cheese, the yellow ones like Gouda stink. Yuck. How can anybody eat that?

I do eat cheese, but only in cooked food, italian food for example often has cheese in it, I don't mind that. (although I'll still won't order Quattro Formaggi)

The funny thing is that I do enjoy Camembert. I don;t think it smells bad and I like the taste. I don't assoiciate Camembert with cheese. For me 'cheese' is smelly bad yellow stuff, only to be tolerated on pizza.

Camembert is not 'cheese' , it's white stuff that smells like the forestfloor in autumn and tastes nice.
 
Aepervius said:
Camembert stinking ? You have done somethign terribly wrong with your camembert, or you have never ever been near a really "naturally" stinking cheese.
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I've been posted in Italy before and currently live about an hour from Strasbourg. I have favorite cheese shops in Paris, Venice and London. Yes, I've been around plenty of stinky cheese.
 
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"Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?"

"Not today sir, no."
 
Vorticity's first post was a much better oblique reference. Not even the cheese shop! I applaud that one. Bluto's was nice, but Vorticity wins in obscurity. Now those blue cheese films... :eek:
 
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Fellow curd afficionados are probably already aware of Pie d'Angloys (trans: 'Englishman's Foot'). I believe the smell of it may have inspired the name...
 
jiggeryqua said:
Fellow curd afficionados are probably already aware of Pie d'Angloys (trans: 'Englishman's Foot'). I believe the smell of it may have inspired the name...
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Whereas Stinking Bishop doesn't derive its name, despite popular lore, from a smelly clergyman, rather, it is named after the variety of pear that is used to produce the perry that the cheese is washed in.

Further, the pear variety is not named after a smelly clergyman either, but after the pear breeder, Mr.Bishop, who was reputed to have "a very ugly temperament".

As a teenager, my friends and I often made up obscure nicknames for people using Word Association Football, despite me being the only Python fan in the group.
 
What does salt smell like? Not much to me. How about sugar? Not much to me. Arugula? It's better, but there's no particular smell. Lemons have a smell that represents sour (to me, at least). So where are the connections between basic tastes and basic smells?

My half-assed theory is that we evolved to have visceral negative reactions to smells that could kill us, namely stuff that's rotting. Molds give off smells that tell animals, "don't eat this or you could get seriously ill and die." Anybody ever eaten rotting beef? For all we know it might taste good if we could get past the gag factor.
 
Cainkane1 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limberger_cheese

I love the flavor of limberger cheese although I prefer whole wheat crackers to whole wheat bread when I eat it. It goes great with a good lager beer or full bodied red wine..
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Mrs. Beeton said that bread and cheese was fit only for navis, but then she also recommended boiling pasta for 90 mins so quite why her name has lived on in the annals of housekeeping lore baffles me.
 
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