Emmy! What a joy it was to see you tasting the Limburger sandwich. I live in Monroe, WI, and I’m a cheesemaker! So neat to see this after watching your content for a looong time.
My father loved Limburger, but he could only eat it in the winter because my mom wouldn’t let him keep it in the fridge, so he’d store it in the (unheated) garage which was “refrigerated” by Wisconsin’s winter. Also, he’d get in trouble if he used the “good” Tupperware ‘cause it would be ruined by the stench. In a typically Wisconsin move, he’d use an old Cool Whip container instead. 😂😂😂
My grandfathers favorite was blue cheese and my grandma would only ever use one specific tupperware box for his sandwiches, because the smell would never come out.
My mom always said The smellier the cheese, the yummier. She liked hers with a whole slice of onion and a slice of liverwurst, mayo, and mustard. She suffered from insomnia, but once she ate this sammy shed fall asleep within 20 minutes. Youre are so brave and adventurous to try all these different foods. After all these years I still have yet to try this cheese. 😅
My AP English teacher used to keep a mini fridge in his classroom. He kept limberger in it. If you fell asleep, he put a little limberger in your backpack lol
I grew up in Wisconsin and have eaten at the restaurant in Monroe. My mom loves the limburger cheese sandwich. My dad and i ordered a regular grilled cheese, my mom was the only one served an andie's candies mint with her meal haha! Love this episode!
We say You-singer ( as in a person who sings) in Wisconsin. I’ve had a big stinky from Baumgartners during cheese fest. You’re amazing Emmy!! I couldn’t do it. I took 3 bites and was done. I described it as a port-o-potty stuck up my nose 😂 Love your videos!!
From Wisconsin, grew up eating that same sandwich! Missing most everywhere when stinky cheese is talked. Liederkranz - Much like limburger, same kind of wrapping, but runny soft. I miss it. Aged Brick - Only in Wisconsin. Texture like munster. Looks normal. High stink, perhaps more so than limburger. Once got kicked out of a Packer bar when I opened it at our table. And They were exceptionally nasty about it. BUT THIS IS WISCONSIN! To no avail.
First video of yours I've ever watched and I could not help but lose it at the reveal of the sandwich with the fancy music in the background. It was just so funny seeing a very plain sandwich with the music lol. Your personality is so friendly, and your descriptions are so vivid and detailed, I definitely am glad to have seen this in my recommended!
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We lived in Germany briefly in the 60’s when I was a tot and my mother brought home a taste for Bierkase cheese which I imagine is much like Limburger. We also ate braunschweiger growing up because both it and Bierkase were available in the US in German delis. I never loved the cheese, but enjoyed the liverwurst.
Bierkäse definitely has a strong smell, but it’s a hard cheese, whereas Limburger is soft and comes in wrapped packages same as Brie or Camembert. Bierkäse comes in large slabs and is cut in slices. It’s one of my all time favourites, but I also love Bergkäse and Limburger because I’m a fan of stinky cheese.😅 So lucky to live in a country with a big array of different cheeses.
@@UTleochi She must’ve been buying Limburger too, because I remember the foil wrapping and how she added additional foil and plastic wrap in a failed attempt to keep our fridge smelling fresh.
Limberger cheese is definitely a treat for mature pallets in all stages of ripeness. We like the cheese in all it's stages so we get some every couple months.
The bread you are using is a rye bread, but it's not Pumpernickle bread. Pumpernickel usually comes presliced in rectangular slices, and it is very dense with no air holes and has noticeable grains.
I love this cheese. I sometimes cube it, add veg oil and vinegar, onions and caraway seeds, salt and pepper. With fresh sourdough bread is great in summer.
My Ghanka (Norwegian for Grandfather-my great grandfather) ate TONS of these Limburger cheese sandwiches right next to my mother much to her great misery!! Then he’d tease her by trying to get her to eat the cheese, waving it under her nose until she was green in the face!
I've never heard anyone call a grandfather that in Norwegian. Is it a dialect thing, or just something your family called him? I can read and understand most spoken Norwegian, but I can't speak or write it myself.
I have very fond memories of this cheese from when I was a young girl. My Dad loved to eat this cheese and I could never get past the smell. My dad would just eat slices from the block like it was a cheddar cheese. Just one of those odd things that brings back a lot of memories.
If you like sharp cheddar, please please please try Old Croc aged cheddar (the green & black package)! It’s from Australia, and it’s got those little crystal-like bits, similar to a good parmesan. Cabot was my go-to as well - until I discovered Old Croc.
😂😂My gosh Emmy is so brave, i live in Germany and i still can't get behind that combination 😂😂 my gosh imagine the breath of all the people coming out of the restaurant after eating that sandwich 🥪.. 😂😂😂😂
My dad ate this, when my mother would let him bring it in the house🤣🤣🤣. He ate it exactly like you fixed it, pumpernickel and raw onions. He also loved pickled herring. And he was not fond of sweets. I think he had tastebud issues, because he would chew his aspirin and not get any bitter taste. And when he peppered his food, it would be black.
My mom used to own a shop that offered a selection of sausages and cheeses (most commonly sold as assembled platters of them already sliced), and she had a customer that came in twice a year to oder limburger, but with the additional request that she shoved it up in the hot attic of the building for 6 months to "ripen". He then shipped it up to a friend of his in Alaska. I can only imagine how much the mail carriers loved him.😖
My 3 year old loves your videos! He will sit and watch like 5 in a row and be narrating what’s happening in the videos! Thank you for creating awesome family content that I can share with my kid ❤
I had a durian milkshake at a pho restaurant once. (In Alabama!) Before I ordered it I asked the waitress if I could just have a taste of it. She said it had to stay frozen until blended into the milkshake so I had to order the shake. It tasted good as long as you held your nose. I had to share it with my boyfriend cause I couldn't finish it. It's awkward to drink something while holding your nose the whole time.😆
@@shannondoreIn 1993, I was in Malaysia for work. One day while touring around, our drivers pulled over to a roadside stand and bought us durian. It was delicious. Perhaps it was because we were outside, I didn’t find the smell to be especially offensive.
That was my dad and my aunts' favorite sandwich! They had some every time they got together. I grew up in Michigan, and it was very popular there as well. There was only one room in our house they were allowed to eat their sandwiches - the "family room" because it had French glass doors floor to ceiling that would not allow the odor to permeate through the glass so the rest of the house didn't stink! LOL One of my favorite childhood memories was watching my mom's reaction while my dad ate the stinky sandwich. She always swore she would never kiss him again (which lasted until he brushed his teeth). I occasionally bought him some Limburger for Christmas, which he ate outside with onions and a beer. You don't see it in the stores around here, so I thought maybe they quit making it. You are very brave for trying something that odoriferous! Good job Emmy! I never had the guts to try it.
I bought some of that cheeses from the same manufacturer. Mine came quite fresh and had almost no odor and was nearly as mild as a Provolone, I kept sampling it as it aged but wound up finishing it around half of the aging options she read about. The half aged cheese still only had half a funk. It was around a Brie when I finished it.
My mother used to eat limburger and rye sandwiches and I'm sure she added onion. I have a strong memory of her stopping at a bakery and buying rye bread, pulling out a knife, cutting the ends off these two giant spring onions, and slicing a tomato and eating an onion and tomato sandwich. Nothing like a midwesterner, and yes, she'd have had it with coffee.
Wisconsinite here. Pronounced "U-zing-er" the best sausage makers. We visited the Monroe fo a couple days last year. It was fantastic and we're planning to go again this year since it can be a day trip if we want but we like to take couple days to explore.
This was my father, uncle and aunties favorite sandwich. That awful odor brings back the best memories. Sitting in the kitchen and listening to stories. And, no, I could never get past the smell. Thanks for the smiles. Enjoy!! 😄
My cat Benjamin came from Monroe, WI! Sadly when we picked him up from the Craigslist ad folks in a Walmart parking lot, we didn’t visit anything else in town. I’m happy to go back sometime.
My father would love to eat Limburger cheese when I was little, it would stink up the house so bad my mom would take everyone shopping to not smell it. Now as an adult, I try to find the stinkiest cheese for my dad. So far, his favorite is Haystack Funkmeister.
If you ever come to the UK Emmy you should try the British cheese Stinking Bishop. Of course we have a lot of aged cheddars too, though they are usually plain and uncoloured in my experience. Definitely visit a cheese shop if you're ever in the UK.
My grandfather used to love some Limburger, preferably the original (he was Dutch, married to a Belgian wife) My mom found a store that sold it, but my mom hates all cheese. So she bought it for her dad and kept it outside in the shed (if the weather permitted it) next to the dried tripe for the dog 😂
My father's favorite cheese. He was of French descent and grew up in the Boston area, so no idea how he came to love it so much, but I do remember the smell. I love the taste and texture!
boy am I late to the party. I've followed you for years but somehow missed this one until today. You sold me. I went to the website you mentioned and ordered Limburger, garlic summer sausage and that cheese you can fry up in the skillet or bake in the oven. thanks!
My father use to like this cheese. He didn't eat it often because he would have Limburger breath when he and mom would go to bed. I tried to try it when I was a child and I don't remember if I ever got the sample on a cracker past my nose. I visited a cheese shop once and they had Limburger for sale (same brand as seen here.). I asked if people bought it? They said the people who bought Limburger were usually fishermen who used it to bait hooks to catch catfish, lol. I would try it again if offered a sample, I really don't care for really strong odors so I would probably not buy it out of my own curiosity.
Ate this for years growing up in the U.S. south!!! Brings back many great memories! If you don’t like the block Limburger, the Limburger spread is a tad milder smell.
That’s because lactose intolerance is not an allergy. It has to do with a decreased or absence of the enzyme lactase in your stomach. This causes the lactose in dairy products to not be digested as well, leading to bloating, gas, and other GI symptoms. Allergies, however, are when something you eat, touch, be injected/get bitten by, or inhale activates your immune system. Symptoms can be a rash, runny nose, itchiness, difficulty breathing, and things of that nature. A great way to help with lactose intolerance is to make your own yogurt and incubate it for 1-2 days. The beneficial bacteria will help digest the lactose in your stomach when you don’t make enough lactase enzyme. This has been a great help to my lactose intolerance.
I'm just glad I don't have a lactose allergy or intolerance. I love cheese. I probably eat it every day. We went to Norway last month, and I brought home 7 things of cheese 😁.
New subscriber! And looking forward to watching more. This was fun. I have German family, and grew up in a heavily German area of the Great Lakes. We always had limburger cheese and loved it, but I can imagine for people who aren't used to eating it, it might be a bit much.
Hi EMMY your videos is always good. I born in West Germany and in my younger life in Germany we take it in a nice open sunshine day und the sun and melt it. In 1970s my mom don't have microwave. So we take the cheese out side and it stinks very bad😄😆😃😀 Take care and as always thank you and I really appreciate for your hard work 😊😉❤️💕
I'm a Limburger, from the Dutch province that this cheese is named after. There are two variants here really, the Maastricht Rommedou that is basically raw milk and ripened in a cave. The more generic Limburgse kaasje is a bit less pungent. My parents used to keep them in the fridge until the vacuum package ballooned with the gas released. Then the inside gets runny, like a very ripe brie. The smell is also very ripe by then.
@@Janna-vdP Deze kaas is Belgisch, niet Nederlands. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervekaas "Aan de Nederlandse zijde van de grens is er de verplichting in de Warenwet om een kaasmakerij te betegelen. Dit is een van de redenen waarom de kaas in het zuidelijkste deel van Nederlands Zuid-Limburg niet of nauwelijks meer wordt gemaakt."
My Uncle Pete (God rest his sweet soul) would pack a lunch for a long bus or train ride (or even for a train ride as the engineer)...Limburger Cheese, head cheese, smelly hot peppers, almost anything that was so pungent....he'd offer it to other passengers, hold out aged limburger....needless to say, he enjoyed himself, while other people would crowd in other areas...just to avoid the stink. He ate well, had elbow room...and if he were alive today, he'd become your biggest fan, for this one. Guaranteed. He'd love you like I do...
Omg! I miss home sooooo badly now! My grandpa's signature sandwich when i was little in the 80's was summer sausage, extra extra sharp cheddar, horseradish mustard and Miracle Whip (not mayo!). I still make it today....I'm ashamed to say I've never had limburger but now i think i need to order some!
We tried limburger recently and it wasn't anywhere NEAR as stinky as I was led to believe by cartoons. It has a mild taste that we enjoyed. That sandwich looks TASTY.
I'm from Germany, but didn't try Limburger yet. I do love Bergkäse though, which also has a strong smell and flavour. My mother used to eat Harzer Rolle, which is a very weird looking and very smelly cheese. I never tried it and I guess I won't try it in the future 😂 the Limburger sandwich looks delicious and I'll definitely try it one day!
In France they have the maroilles, pronounced "marwal" and the Vieux Lilles. Banned in airplanes i think. The more they stink the more delicious they are. 😊
Emmy I live in Monroe and have never tried one of those sandwiches lol but there are many that do and the business is so busy all year round. Thanks for doing this video 😊
Hey Emmy, can do a tour of your set up one day? I’d love to see how you fixed the place up and what it’s like filing and stuff! I love your content so much and never miss a video ❤
I worked in a grocery store in the 90s and there was an older man that bought a few packages of Limburger cheese every week. His wife would always complain about it but apparently he has been doing it their entire marriage. He kept a rotation of them in their fridge because he preferred it very aged and refuse to allow himself to run out.
Sounds awesome, pretty similar how we eat it over here in Germany. I always keep some cheese, mostly Limburger, but also Harzer Cheese, Munster, or Quargel in the kitchen below a cheese bell. My son and my wife hate that smell, but it keeps flies and Mosquitoes away😂 Have a nice day✌️
Whenever I think of Limburger cheese, I think of the Little Rascals, where there was a kid who always ate Limburger cheese and how the other kids reacted to the odor. I've never been able to bring myself to try the stuff because of those shorts.
4th grade had an experience with Limburger. The "skeazy" guy in class brought it to our class Cheese Party for a book we read, the title of which I don't recall.
I tried Limburger cheese once… and all I can say is that Emmy is the bravest person I know. 😂😂 Describing it as tasting like feet is a very generous comparison.
Disgusted by what? A cheese enjoyed by millions around the globe. Though really I am not surprised by your reaction since America has no national cheese.
You might want to look into Colby and Brick cheeses. They were both created in Wisconsin. I don't live in Wisconsin but I grew up eating Colby and Brick cheeses. We used to get Kraft Colby that was sold in a wax coated cylinder. It said "longhorn style" but I keep forgetting what that means. Brick was always a sort softer white cheese that was so good in a simple sandwich. However, I recently learned that it is the traditional cheese for Detroit style pizza and shockingly they also age it with the same bacteria as Limburger. I looked it up and found a place selling it wrapped in foil just like Limburger. The young brick I ate as a child seemed like it was made for children to eat by the fist full. One would never imagine it could age into anything resembling Limburger. If you haven't tried them before then I hope that you do in the future. They were abundant when I was a kid and it has seemed like they are far less common. It has been a very long time since I have seen those wax coated cylinders of Colby in a store.
Widmers sells aged brick cheese wrapped in foil that is like a mild version of Limburger. They also sell well aged (up to 15 years) cheddar. They’re in Monroe and sell online. Usingers makes a nice selection of liverwursts, too. I agree with whoever said that adding liverwurst and mustard to this sandwich is great.
In my childhood my dad always made "salad" with Limburger. It's basically Limburger, onion, salt, pepper and vinegar. That's it. I think he also had sourdough bread as well. He loved it. I hated it because of the smell 😬
You’re really brave. Limburer always got a bad rap in the old cartoons. It was the butt of several jokes. I always assumed it was pretty gross stuff, but cheers to you for not just trying it, but enjoying it 👍
I love onions, but i was shook at how much onion u put in there 🤣 then u were like "its twice as much as u thought!" My mind was officially blown. Gotta try this
I grew up in Belgian Limburg and I’m watching this in fascination cause I have never even heard of Limburger cheese. A quick look on wikipedia also tells me this is one of the most popular cheeses in Belgium, and all I can think is ‘How did I never even hear about this cheese?’ Funny what you discover on youtube! I bet wikipedia is exaggerating a bit about it’s popularity in Belgium though. Seems more popular in the US than in Belgium…
Emmy! What a joy it was to see you tasting the Limburger sandwich. I live in Monroe, WI, and I’m a cheesemaker! So neat to see this after watching your content for a looong time.
I drive through Monroe sometimes, I should pick some up. My grandfather loved limburger.
Is it ever toasted/grilled?
I used to live in Madison and would drive to Monroe frequently. I need to get some limburger!
SO JELLY! You have the PERFECT JOB!!! I LOVE CHEESE!!
Monroe is a great place for shopping
They have a chocolatier that do their chocolating with an audience viewing from outside
My father loved Limburger, but he could only eat it in the winter because my mom wouldn’t let him keep it in the fridge, so he’d store it in the (unheated) garage which was “refrigerated” by Wisconsin’s winter. Also, he’d get in trouble if he used the “good” Tupperware ‘cause it would be ruined by the stench. In a typically Wisconsin move, he’d use an old Cool Whip container instead. 😂😂😂
My grandfathers favorite was blue cheese and my grandma would only ever use one specific tupperware box for his sandwiches, because the smell would never come out.
My mom always said
The smellier the cheese, the yummier.
She liked hers with a whole slice of onion and a slice of liverwurst, mayo, and mustard.
She suffered from insomnia, but once she ate this sammy shed fall asleep within 20 minutes.
Youre are so brave and adventurous to try all these different foods. After all these years I still have yet to try this cheese. 😅
oh that sounds delicious
lovely memory
If you try this sandwich try toasting the bread first and add butter.
My AP English teacher used to keep a mini fridge in his classroom. He kept limberger in it. If you fell asleep, he put a little limberger in your backpack lol
AP ENGLISH, eh?! OOoooOoooooOooo
I grew up in Wisconsin and have eaten at the restaurant in Monroe. My mom loves the limburger cheese sandwich. My dad and i ordered a regular grilled cheese, my mom was the only one served an andie's candies mint with her meal haha! Love this episode!
We say You-singer ( as in a person who sings) in Wisconsin. I’ve had a big stinky from Baumgartners during cheese fest. You’re amazing Emmy!! I couldn’t do it. I took 3 bites and was done. I described it as a port-o-potty stuck up my nose 😂 Love your videos!!
well that doesn't sound tasty at all! ;).
From Wisconsin, grew up eating that same sandwich! Missing most everywhere when stinky cheese is talked.
Liederkranz - Much like limburger, same kind of wrapping, but runny soft. I miss it.
Aged Brick - Only in Wisconsin. Texture like munster. Looks normal. High stink, perhaps more so than limburger. Once got kicked out of a Packer bar when I opened it at our table. And They were exceptionally nasty about it. BUT THIS IS WISCONSIN! To no avail.
First video of yours I've ever watched and I could not help but lose it at the reveal of the sandwich with the fancy music in the background. It was just so funny seeing a very plain sandwich with the music lol. Your personality is so friendly, and your descriptions are so vivid and detailed, I definitely am glad to have seen this in my recommended!
I highly recommend Emmy's Bugmas Playlist.
She really is a gem. She describes the flavors of her food very well. Welcome to the channel 😊
@@CricketsBayOMGIDDYOD that's a playlist I share with EvErYoNe🤣😂🤣
Welcome to the channel and as one fellow Emmy lover suggested you should definitely check out her Bugmass list!!!
Because there's nothing quite like watching our sweet Emmy describe it giant scorpion like it's actually FOOD!🤢💚🤢 🦂
You’ve been calming my anxiety for several years now ❤ you’re the best!!
We lived in Germany briefly in the 60’s when I was a tot and my mother brought home a taste for Bierkase cheese which I imagine is much like Limburger. We also ate braunschweiger growing up because both it and Bierkase were available in the US in German delis. I never loved the cheese, but enjoyed the liverwurst.
I too grew up and love Braunschweiger and other liverwurst. Makes a fantastic sandwich!
Braunschweiger also goes great with several thin slices of red onion! Great, now I want it!
Bierkäse definitely has a strong smell, but it’s a hard cheese, whereas Limburger is soft and comes in wrapped packages same as Brie or Camembert. Bierkäse comes in large slabs and is cut in slices. It’s one of my all time favourites, but I also love Bergkäse and Limburger because I’m a fan of stinky cheese.😅 So lucky to live in a country with a big array of different cheeses.
@@UTleochi She must’ve been buying Limburger too, because I remember the foil wrapping and how she added additional foil and plastic wrap in a failed attempt to keep our fridge smelling fresh.
Limberger cheese is definitely a treat for mature pallets in all stages of ripeness. We like the cheese in all it's stages so we get some every couple months.
The bread you are using is a rye bread, but it's not Pumpernickle bread. Pumpernickel usually comes presliced in rectangular slices, and it is very dense with no air holes and has noticeable grains.
I love this cheese. I sometimes cube it, add veg oil and vinegar, onions and caraway seeds, salt and pepper. With fresh sourdough bread is great in summer.
My Ghanka (Norwegian for Grandfather-my great grandfather) ate TONS of these Limburger cheese sandwiches right next to my mother much to her great misery!! Then he’d tease her by trying to get her to eat the cheese, waving it under her nose until she was green in the face!
I've never heard anyone call a grandfather that in Norwegian. Is it a dialect thing, or just something your family called him? I can read and understand most spoken Norwegian, but I can't speak or write it myself.
my very german grandfather ate this sandwich all the time, my dad always talked about how bad it smelled. we're from ohio, so you nailed this :)
Emmy, I love your approach to new foods. You enter the tasting with respect and grace - even when it's big and stinky.
I have very fond memories of this cheese from when I was a young girl. My Dad loved to eat this cheese and I could never get past the smell. My dad would just eat slices from the block like it was a cheddar cheese. Just one of those odd things that brings back a lot of memories.
If you like sharp cheddar, please please please try Old Croc aged cheddar (the green & black package)! It’s from Australia, and it’s got those little crystal-like bits, similar to a good parmesan. Cabot was my go-to as well - until I discovered Old Croc.
😂😂My gosh Emmy is so brave, i live in Germany and i still can't get behind that combination 😂😂 my gosh imagine the breath of all the people coming out of the restaurant after eating that sandwich 🥪.. 😂😂😂😂
Imagine their bathrooms later 😢
No vampires!
She should run over to her hubby and give him a huge kiss right after eating all of that funk! I love stinky cheese!
@@mythos000000025😮😂
Guess it would have helped automatic social distancing when we needed to keep a lot more distance to people compared to now
My dad ate this, when my mother would let him bring it in the house🤣🤣🤣. He ate it exactly like you fixed it, pumpernickel and raw onions. He also loved pickled herring. And he was not fond of sweets. I think he had tastebud issues, because he would chew his aspirin and not get any bitter taste. And when he peppered his food, it would be black.
He sounds metal!!! 🤘
There are apparently supertasters, regular tasters, and non-tasters. He sounds like a non-taster! For the record, so am I. I love raw red onions.
A gentleman after my own taste. I pepper my food the same way~
My mom used to own a shop that offered a selection of sausages and cheeses (most commonly sold as assembled platters of them already sliced), and she had a customer that came in twice a year to oder limburger, but with the additional request that she shoved it up in the hot attic of the building for 6 months to "ripen". He then shipped it up to a friend of his in Alaska. I can only imagine how much the mail carriers loved him.😖
You were so calm during this! I could never. Major kudos!
My mom used to make herself Limburger melts by microwaving it... the whole house was funked up! 😤🤢
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I've tried making pizza with it. Took a week before the funky smell went away. The pizza was delicious though.
I feel sorry for your house LOL
...need to try that...
I guess that’s a good way to keep neighbors and door salesmen away 😵💫
My 3 year old loves your videos! He will sit and watch like 5 in a row and be narrating what’s happening in the videos! Thank you for creating awesome family content that I can share with my kid ❤
I was expecting a Limburger and durian sandwich. Does sound like a fun restaurant. I’d still love to see you make campbelled eggs!!!
and surströmming 🤣
I had a durian milkshake at a pho restaurant once. (In Alabama!) Before I ordered it I asked the waitress if I could just have a taste of it. She said it had to stay frozen until blended into the milkshake so I had to order the shake. It tasted good as long as you held your nose. I had to share it with my boyfriend cause I couldn't finish it. It's awkward to drink something while holding your nose the whole time.😆
@@shannondoreIn 1993, I was in Malaysia for work. One day while touring around, our drivers pulled over to a roadside stand and bought us durian. It was delicious. Perhaps it was because we were outside, I didn’t find the smell to be especially offensive.
Huh?
Hello from Wisconsin! We have been to Baumgartners and survived the Limburger sandwich
That was my dad and my aunts' favorite sandwich! They had some every time they got together. I grew up in Michigan, and it was very popular there as well. There was only one room in our house they were allowed to eat their sandwiches - the "family room" because it had French glass doors floor to ceiling that would not allow the odor to permeate through the glass so the rest of the house didn't stink! LOL One of my favorite childhood memories was watching my mom's reaction while my dad ate the stinky sandwich. She always swore she would never kiss him again (which lasted until he brushed his teeth). I occasionally bought him some Limburger for Christmas, which he ate outside with onions and a beer. You don't see it in the stores around here, so I thought maybe they quit making it. You are very brave for trying something that odoriferous! Good job Emmy! I never had the guts to try it.
Emmy! It was so gratifying that you also were pleased by the way the cheese fit the bread. 😊
I bought some of that cheeses from the same manufacturer. Mine came quite fresh and had almost no odor and was nearly as mild as a Provolone, I kept sampling it as it aged but wound up finishing it around half of the aging options she read about. The half aged cheese still only had half a funk. It was around a Brie when I finished it.
It needs to stay unopened in the original packaging to finish aging properly. Once it's opened, the process is done.
We also eat Limburger with sliced onions and vinegar as a salad in Germany. I love it!
Handkäs mit Musik 😊
My mother used to eat limburger and rye sandwiches and I'm sure she added onion. I have a strong memory of her stopping at a bakery and buying rye bread, pulling out a knife, cutting the ends off these two giant spring onions, and slicing a tomato and eating an onion and tomato sandwich. Nothing like a midwesterner, and yes, she'd have had it with coffee.
One in a while we do onion sandwiches : buttered white bread, sliced onion, salt and pepper. Ohio based
A slice of tomato, and a little mustard, would both elevate this sandwich to a better place!
Wisconsinite here. Pronounced "U-zing-er" the best sausage makers.
We visited the Monroe fo a couple days last year. It was fantastic and we're planning to go again this year since it can be a day trip if we want but we like to take couple days to explore.
Love your palpable descriptions!
This was my father, uncle and aunties favorite sandwich. That awful odor brings back the best memories. Sitting in the kitchen and listening to stories. And, no, I could never get past the smell. Thanks for the smiles. Enjoy!! 😄
My cat Benjamin came from Monroe, WI! Sadly when we picked him up from the Craigslist ad folks in a Walmart parking lot, we didn’t visit anything else in town. I’m happy to go back sometime.
This gives "so stinking cute" a whole different meaning
My German grandfather was a fan of Limburger, but he didn't like Parmesan because it "smelled like feet"
It's interesting how human taste doesn't always seem to follow logic.
I used to hate parmesan cheese when I was a kid for the same reason. It was the stinky cheese of my childhood. Now, it's one of my favorites
@bunhongvong-qj8shunlike limberger!
@@dontworry5981 Romano is more pungent, but it blends more easily into sauces.
Foot bacteria must be a regional thing. My toe jam smells like Limburger. Maybe in germany, toe jam smells like parmagan.
My father would love to eat Limburger cheese when I was little, it would stink up the house so bad my mom would take everyone shopping to not smell it.
Now as an adult, I try to find the stinkiest cheese for my dad. So far, his favorite is Haystack Funkmeister.
I'm 31 and I have never had pumpernickle bread in my life, but I do remember it's Barney the dinosaur's favourite bread hahaha
If you ever come to the UK Emmy you should try the British cheese Stinking Bishop.
Of course we have a lot of aged cheddars too, though they are usually plain and uncoloured in my experience. Definitely visit a cheese shop if you're ever in the UK.
I love this type of content so much! ❤
My grandfather used to love some Limburger, preferably the original (he was Dutch, married to a Belgian wife)
My mom found a store that sold it, but my mom hates all cheese. So she bought it for her dad and kept it outside in the shed (if the weather permitted it) next to the dried tripe for the dog 😂
I’m like your mom I hate all cheese.
Emmy you rule
"Barnyardy" ❤😂 Your videos are fun to watch because you always keep it real. Please don't ever change. 🙂
I used to eat limberger and onion sandwiches with spicy mustard. Thank you for the stroll down memory lane 😊.
My grandparents (from Ohio) would have these and just munch away. Drove the rest of the family right out of the house!
My father's favorite cheese. He was of French descent and grew up in the Boston area, so no idea how he came to love it so much, but I do remember the smell. I love the taste and texture!
Emmy you're almost poetic when describing flavours. I wish I had tastebuds like that!
boy am I late to the party. I've followed you for years but somehow missed this one until today. You sold me. I went to the website you mentioned and ordered Limburger, garlic summer sausage and that cheese you can fry up in the skillet or bake in the oven. thanks!
Thanks for the inspiration. I think I buy some next week for supper.
… I also considered it as an office lucheon. But I think I reconsider…
My father use to like this cheese. He didn't eat it often because he would have Limburger breath when he and mom would go to bed. I tried to try it when I was a child and I don't remember if I ever got the sample on a cracker past my nose. I visited a cheese shop once and they had Limburger for sale (same brand as seen here.). I asked if people bought it? They said the people who bought Limburger were usually fishermen who used it to bait hooks to catch catfish, lol. I would try it again if offered a sample, I really don't care for really strong odors so I would probably not buy it out of my own curiosity.
Emmy is an onion lover; and a rebel.
This made my mouth water!
Ate this for years growing up in the U.S. south!!! Brings back many great memories! If you don’t like the block Limburger, the Limburger spread is a tad milder smell.
I'm glad lactose intolerance isnt as severe as other allergies because i love every type of cheese there is
That’s because lactose intolerance is not an allergy. It has to do with a decreased or absence of the enzyme lactase in your stomach. This causes the lactose in dairy products to not be digested as well, leading to bloating, gas, and other GI symptoms.
Allergies, however, are when something you eat, touch, be injected/get bitten by, or inhale activates your immune system. Symptoms can be a rash, runny nose, itchiness, difficulty breathing, and things of that nature.
A great way to help with lactose intolerance is to make your own yogurt and incubate it for 1-2 days. The beneficial bacteria will help digest the lactose in your stomach when you don’t make enough lactase enzyme. This has been a great help to my lactose intolerance.
I'm just glad I don't have a lactose allergy or intolerance. I love cheese. I probably eat it every day. We went to Norway last month, and I brought home 7 things of cheese 😁.
New subscriber! And looking forward to watching more. This was fun. I have German family, and grew up in a heavily German area of the Great Lakes. We always had limburger cheese and loved it, but I can imagine for people who aren't used to eating it, it might be a bit much.
Hi EMMY your videos is always good. I born in West Germany and in my younger life in Germany we take it in a nice open sunshine day und the sun and melt it.
In 1970s my mom don't have microwave. So we take the cheese out side and it stinks very bad😄😆😃😀
Take care and as always thank you and I really appreciate for your hard work 😊😉❤️💕
I'm a Limburger, from the Dutch province that this cheese is named after. There are two variants here really, the Maastricht Rommedou that is basically raw milk and ripened in a cave. The more generic Limburgse kaasje is a bit less pungent. My parents used to keep them in the fridge until the vacuum package ballooned with the gas released. Then the inside gets runny, like a very ripe brie. The smell is also very ripe by then.
I was gonna comment this. I thought this was Dutch too! Never tried it though, will do some day. Going to ask the kaasboer tomorrow lol
@@Janna-vdP Deze kaas is Belgisch, niet Nederlands. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervekaas "Aan de Nederlandse zijde van de grens is er de verplichting in de Warenwet om een kaasmakerij te betegelen. Dit is een van de redenen waarom de kaas in het zuidelijkste deel van Nederlands Zuid-Limburg niet of nauwelijks meer wordt gemaakt."
My Father, A Depression era baby loved this sandwich. He grew up in Cincinnati OH
My Uncle Pete (God rest his sweet soul) would pack a lunch for a long bus or train ride (or even for a train ride as the engineer)...Limburger Cheese, head cheese, smelly hot peppers, almost anything that was so pungent....he'd offer it to other passengers, hold out aged limburger....needless to say, he enjoyed himself, while other people would crowd in other areas...just to avoid the stink. He ate well, had elbow room...and if he were alive today, he'd become your biggest fan, for this one. Guaranteed. He'd love you like I do...
I clicked this really expecting liverwurst. I once won a chess game because my opponent couldn't stand the smell of my sandwich and conceded.
Lots of love from Belgium! Limburg is a province in this country. There is also a Dutch Limburg area.
My Grandfather loved this stuff!! He was from southwestern West Virginia.
My dad, from northern Illinois, used to make a sandwich, that was very similar. Rye, Limburger, liverwurst, mustard and a slice of onion.
Summer sausage and cheese is one of my all time favorite snacks. Yum yum.
Omg! I miss home sooooo badly now! My grandpa's signature sandwich when i was little in the 80's was summer sausage, extra extra sharp cheddar, horseradish mustard and Miracle Whip (not mayo!). I still make it today....I'm ashamed to say I've never had limburger but now i think i need to order some!
We tried limburger recently and it wasn't anywhere NEAR as stinky as I was led to believe by cartoons. It has a mild taste that we enjoyed. That sandwich looks TASTY.
It was young. It smells more as it ages as Emmy explained.
I'm from Germany, but didn't try Limburger yet. I do love Bergkäse though, which also has a strong smell and flavour. My mother used to eat Harzer Rolle, which is a very weird looking and very smelly cheese. I never tried it and I guess I won't try it in the future 😂 the Limburger sandwich looks delicious and I'll definitely try it one day!
Limburger is great. I’m really glad I mustered up the courage to try it. It’s pretty easy to find where I live.
I'm from Ohio and first tasted this exact sandwich around 6 years old. Loved it, still do.
In France they have the maroilles, pronounced "marwal" and the Vieux Lilles. Banned in airplanes i think. The more they stink the more delicious they are. 😊
Emmy I live in Monroe and have never tried one of those sandwiches lol but there are many that do and the business is so busy all year round. Thanks for doing this video 😊
Pumpernickel is my favorite sandwich bread. I love it with Swiss cheese hellmans Mayo and maybe some more add ons. It’s so good
You're so brave! 😂 this was my dad's favorite . Michigan here
Hey Emmy, can do a tour of your set up one day? I’d love to see how you fixed the place up and what it’s like filing and stuff! I love your content so much and never miss a video ❤
I agree Cabot is our favorite cheddar 🧀. Having lived in Vermont, they make some awesome cheese as well.
few and good ingredients must taste amazing!!!
is there any cheese close to it for a replacement?
I love your videos so much, I'm always watching while I'm eating, I feel so comfy watching you.. ;')
I worked in a grocery store in the 90s and there was an older man that bought a few packages of Limburger cheese every week. His wife would always complain about it but apparently he has been doing it their entire marriage. He kept a rotation of them in their fridge because he preferred it very aged and refuse to allow himself to run out.
When I was a kid my dad would store the Limburger cheese in a wide mouth jar. That way it didn't stink up the whole frig.
I'm also from Wi.
Sounds awesome, pretty similar how we eat it over here in Germany.
I always keep some cheese, mostly Limburger, but also Harzer Cheese, Munster, or Quargel in the kitchen below a cheese bell.
My son and my wife hate that smell, but it keeps flies and Mosquitoes away😂
Have a nice day✌️
Whenever I think of Limburger cheese, I think of the Little Rascals, where there was a kid who always ate Limburger cheese and how the other kids reacted to the odor. I've never been able to bring myself to try the stuff because of those shorts.
4th grade had an experience with Limburger. The "skeazy" guy in class brought it to our class Cheese Party for a book we read, the title of which I don't recall.
That "skeazy" guy actually sounds like a hoot! Bringing Linberger cheese to a 4rt grade party is hilarious! And you still remember it, lol!
I love Limburger cheese. The flavor is so mild compared to the smell. Absolutely needs a beer for accompaniment.
We go by a rule in my family. If i don't eat it, it's bad. I don't eat it lol 😂😂
Sausage, onions, feet? It’s giving freshman dorm room
I was disgusted the whole time yet I still loved this video! Thanks Emmy!
I tried Limburger cheese once… and all I can say is that Emmy is the bravest person I know. 😂😂
Describing it as tasting like feet is a very generous comparison.
Disgusted by what? A cheese enjoyed by millions around the globe. Though really I am not surprised by your reaction since America has no national cheese.
@@pheart2381because bad smells can be very disgusting?
@@pheart2381There have still been a lot of great cheeses created in the US (pepper jack #1!)
I don’t think it matters to have one official cheese.
Here in Wisconsin we love Limburger and other strong cheeses! So glad you like them too.
You might want to look into Colby and Brick cheeses. They were both created in Wisconsin. I don't live in Wisconsin but I grew up eating Colby and Brick cheeses. We used to get Kraft Colby that was sold in a wax coated cylinder. It said "longhorn style" but I keep forgetting what that means. Brick was always a sort softer white cheese that was so good in a simple sandwich. However, I recently learned that it is the traditional cheese for Detroit style pizza and shockingly they also age it with the same bacteria as Limburger. I looked it up and found a place selling it wrapped in foil just like Limburger. The young brick I ate as a child seemed like it was made for children to eat by the fist full. One would never imagine it could age into anything resembling Limburger. If you haven't tried them before then I hope that you do in the future. They were abundant when I was a kid and it has seemed like they are far less common. It has been a very long time since I have seen those wax coated cylinders of Colby in a store.
Processed cheese isnt an actual cheese.
Widmers sells aged brick cheese wrapped in foil that is like a mild version of Limburger. They also sell well aged (up to 15 years) cheddar. They’re in Monroe and sell online. Usingers makes a nice selection of liverwursts, too. I agree with whoever said that adding liverwurst and mustard to this sandwich is great.
@@HankSielski generally liverwurst is under appreciated.
My dad loved Limburger, he called it Belly Button Cheese. There's a similar one he also loved called Liederkranz. The smell is unforgettable.
You are so brave Emmy!!!❤❤❤
In my childhood my dad always made "salad" with Limburger. It's basically Limburger, onion, salt, pepper and vinegar. That's it. I think he also had sourdough bread as well. He loved it. I hated it because of the smell 😬
Lovely video, not had limburger since I was a kid, but it's definitely the Durian of cheeses. Smells like hell, tastes like heaven.
6:20 When you said that, I died of laughter! 🤣😂
Wisconsinite here. We pronounce the summer sausage brand as U-zing-ers.
You’re really brave. Limburer always got a bad rap in the old cartoons. It was the butt of several jokes. I always assumed it was pretty gross stuff, but cheers to you for not just trying it, but enjoying it 👍
I also love very sharp aged chedder cheese yellow and white by the brick or sliced from the Deli.yummy😋
I love onions, but i was shook at how much onion u put in there 🤣 then u were like "its twice as much as u thought!" My mind was officially blown. Gotta try this
I grew up in Belgian Limburg and I’m watching this in fascination cause I have never even heard of Limburger cheese. A quick look on wikipedia also tells me this is one of the most popular cheeses in Belgium, and all I can think is ‘How did I never even hear about this cheese?’ Funny what you discover on youtube! I bet wikipedia is exaggerating a bit about it’s popularity in Belgium though. Seems more popular in the US than in Belgium…
"Aggressively flavored" 😂 Gotta use that one
"Barnyardy..." 😆
@@lancerevell5979 That one, too 😆 I love Emmy