Today I visited Wisconsin's cheese mecca, Monroe, home to the Monroe High School Cheesemakers. I stopped for lunch in Baumgartner's Cheese Store and Tavern, where I snarfed down a Limburger Cheese sandwich. Have you ever eaten Limburger cheese? If you haven't, let's just say this: Baumgartner's serves the sandwich with an after-dinner mint.
If you have tasted Limburger, chances are it was made in Monroe at the Chalet Cheese Cooperative, the only Limburger manufacturing facility in the U.S. Unfortunately, Chalet has been closed, so I haven't been able to visit on this trip. I hope to get back in June.
By the way, as I sat eating my sandwich, the sound system was playing "Feelin' Groovy" by Simon and Garfunkel. Indeed.
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1. Posted by David Zaring on February 19, 2008 @ 22:28 | Permalink
I love Limburger. Unbelievably smelly, and you could get it at the Kroger's in small Virginia mountain towns. Quite an insouciant combo.
2. Posted by Cliff on February 22, 2008 @ 0:29 | Permalink
My grandfather used to love stinking up the house with that stuff. Incidentially, I was first introduced to the stuff as "stinky cheese."
I have never tasted the stuff. A whiff from across the house was close enough for me...
3. Posted by moncler jacket on November 1, 2011 @ 9:31 | Permalink
let's join our hands together to stop this kind of wrong doings. It may risk lives in the future if we just let them continue.
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