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
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 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 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 🥪.. 😂😂😂😂
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!!
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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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.
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.
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.😖
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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'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.
@@TheLazyDutchGardener 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."
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.
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.
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 ❤
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...
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 😁.
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 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!! 😄
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.
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 think I'd bake some onion slices, heavily butter the bread, build the sandwich with the ingredients and fry it all in a pan like a grilled cheese sandwich.
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!
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. 😊
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’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 👍
When I took in my grandmother to take care of her, I discovered that one of the things she liked to eat was liverwurst, one of the worst smelling luncheon meats out there (or maybe I just have a sensitive nose).
My family is from the Netherlands and Liverwurst or Braunschweiger is the go to sandwich meat! Dark rye bread with butter and onions liverwurst and salt and pepper so good.
@@MidwestArtist Have you ever tried head cheese? If you don't know, it's not cheese. It's meat bits from the head of a pig (snout, cheeks, lips, forehead, ears) chopped up and pressed together and then held together by some kind of meat gel. A local Winn Dixie (closed now) used to have it sliced for sandwiches in the same refrigerated counter as the bologna (packaged the same as the bologna, too).
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
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 😬
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.
Hahaha, we're from the Netherlands. My dad was only allowed to eat a Limburger cheese when my parents would be camping😂😂😂 He could NOT have it in the house. So grosss!!!!
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!
I'm at home apparently out loud yelling,"No Emmy don't bite it!" Lol, my daughter said who's Emmy? 😂I love sharp cheddar but no to the stinky feet cheese!
My step-grandma used to eat Liverwurst and Limburger cheese sandwiches with mustard (I dont remember toppings or type of the bread). I tried a bite when I was 8 or so; my throat did a big NOPE, my epiglottis was superglued and I could not swallow.
It looks like it's very tasty if you can survive the smell. Might be nicer if you add mayonnaise and tomatoes. Maybe some lettuce as well. Or you might just make a toasted version of it instead of having it cold. That would likely make the onions milder and the cheese might be different if melted/cooked. Something nice to try when you want to break the routine, I'd not personally go for it everyday, but maybe once a month. 😁
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.
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.
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…
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!
I think that looks like it could be really good. edit: I tried it. I liked it. Pumpernickel with limburger and red onion plain. smells very funky at first but then you eat it and the flavors work together nicely. I eventually added honey mustard to it. would eat again.
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 😊
Although I've heard of Limburger cheese, of course (who hasn't, lol), I've never tried it. In fact, I've never seen it in stores, either. I definitely want to try it someday, though!
