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Happy marriage through compromise.
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My wife married into my Warhammer collection. We have a Warhammer room. I'm pretty sure she doesn't even like Warhammer but has her own painted figurines.
This is me and stinky cheese :b
I love really intense cheese. The good shit. I have lived with the tasteless rubber cheese for half my life because my boyfriend hates stinky cheese.
It was to the point that he, until last year, actually believed that I only like mild cheese and when I told him no, that I absolutely adore the nastiest, stinkiest cheeses he was shocked and asked me why I never told him. Said I did, many years ago, but I didn't mind giving up good cheese for his sake, because he has a very sensitive nose and I didn't want him to be grossed out everytime he opened the fridge.
To his credit, he took me to a farm store not long after that conversation and bought me a block of delicious stinky cheese. He did wrap it in several layers of plastic and stuck it in an air tight container like it was a murder victim, but he wanted me to have some cheese I actually liked for once. I think it was really sweet of him because I know how much good cheese repulses him. Haven't replenished my cheese stock since, but it's nice to know that he's willing to let me have it once in awhile.
Exactly what kind of stinky cheese are we talking here? Cuz I love cheese, just about any cheese. I grew up seeing Looney Tunes cartoons make fun of Limberger, and I once got a big bite of real Limberger without knowing it, and it really did taste bad.
OTOH, I LOVE bleu cheese of any kind, and it doesn't get much ranker than that.
So what kind of stinky cheeses are you loving?
I don't remember their exact names, but there are several types of Swiss cheeses from an area that one of my family members are from, where they make really strong cheeses and they are wonderful. When that part of the family have been vacationing in Switzerland, we sometimes gather at their place and have a cheese feast, tho it isn't a regular occurrence. It was during one of those occasions that my man found out how much I love strong cheese.
But yeah, I'm no expert on cheese names since I rarely dabble in the cheese world.
The cheese he got me was called Gammel Knas and had won awards for being the best cheese in our country. Despite being strong, it still managed to have a sort of sweetness to it, which was lovely. It isn't the strongest cheese I have ever had, nor the stinkiest, but it was a nice one. The most intense one I ever had was from Switzerland and it's like 20 years ago so i dont remember what it was called. It was just really intense. Almost made your eyes water and your throat burned a little.
Ironically, I'm not the biggest fan of blue cheese, but I think it's because I got a gorgonzola pizza at an italian reataurant for one of my birthdays as a kid and it tasted really good, but at some point it became a chore to eat because it was too big with too much cheese and I was a kid so it went from being a good experience to becoming overwhelming and nauseating. Since that pizza, I mostly steered clear of blue cheeses.
Bleu is nothing. Look for a munster, from eastern France (no, it comes from local dialect and not from "monster"). It smells from far away, but it's absolutely delicious!