Herve Mons: Got Your Stinky Right Here...

An emergency trip to Whole Foods left me with a couple of real stinkers. Actually one sheep's milk that really stinks. It's an unpasteurized Tomme du Berger. It's much stinkier than I thought. I usually enjoy the reek but this one is unabashedly rotten. 1/4 bottle of saké has left me more than able to reminisce on those days as a child when I went to swimming lessons and the peculiar funk that I was privy to in the deepest of locker-room lockers. Boy is this one a farm-land winner.

-out by the previous paragraph's tangent than maybe this cheese is not for you but if it was kinda-funny we may have a winner. Morbier was mentioned as a quality stinker and I can assure you my wife wouldn't eat this either. It's like funky butter. MMMMMMmmmmm. Good.

Based on the funky love that I tasted in store I added Herve Mons Fourme de Montbrison, a blue, which while fairly typical, it has its twinges.

Just a note to add that my wife came home early and has told me to throw this cheese out. I smell like B.O. "I can smell it from here and it's so foul. I'm not kidding. It's not funny." She's really mad. It really smells.

Comments

[Pierrot]

I'm not sure if this is the same cheese- i recently picked up a soft rind from whole foods that came in a little clay container for baking it. it became a gooey liquid that REEKED! i like cabrales, which i thought was pretty pungent. but this was to the point where i considered taking it back.

[josh]

Didn't have the little clay container but man it's a stinker. Heated up might be utterly revolting. As I ate it I did enjoy it. Made a limburger smell downright mild.

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[Bob]

I just let it sit on the counter, unwrapped, for an hour or so and eat it with a knife. My wife and I love it. It is one of our favorites.
I never thought about heating it. I figured the little pot was to keep it from running away.
Aside: When I am in NYC, I often stop by Zabar's just before going to LGA and pick up a runny Brie.. Then I get the whole row to myself. Seriously, it works.