French Cheese Is Smelliest in British Researcher's Test

Associated Press ^ | 11-26-04 1444EST | Associated Press

[sneakers]

My co-worker and I share a very small office. She is always eating some kind of stinky cheese with her lunch. I have to make sure the door is shut so the odor doesn't drift into other offices. I usually end up finding something to do outside the office when she's eating lunch! Bleccchhhhh!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

Without a doubt (confirmed by an actual Google) the tops hits will all be commentaries on, or links to the Python Cheese Shop skit.

[DOGEY]

Chirac cheese reminded those conducting the tests of rodent excrement that had spoiled.

[Jackknife]

"I prromees you .... It iz zee frransh sheez zat ztinks!!"

[ch.man]

Same thing every time. You americans dont understand french culture. The smelliest cheese is named "Epoisses" or maybe the "Chaumes" or if you really want to fight, try the "Roy".......LOL......

Having posted this, I hope that one day I will meet you on a good cheese market.

All this from a Swiss guy who loves all of you. Keeep on the good work for the sake of the whole world.

(Maybe somebody will blast me for this. I will gladly accept any reprimand)

[Skooz]

I always knew that France is where the earth cut the cheese.

[the invisib1e hand]

memo to France: your stuff stinks.

[finnigan2]

The French may claim that it's the brushing of the cheese with beer that gives it it's distinctive stench, but other think that wrapping the cheese in old wrestlers jock straps during the aging process is what really turns it into catnip for French taste buds.

[Dr. Luv]

You can say anything you want about the French, but we could learn a lot from them about food - stinky cheese included.

[RtWngr]

Their cheese stinks for a reason. If it wasn't so strong, the natural aroma of the French armpit would overpower any more subtle or subdued fragrance.

[mondonico]

I'm first to mock the French, but I have to admit I like their cheese.

[MarineBrat]

French Cheese!

[EggsAckley]

Me too. I could LIVE on cheese.

[mondonico]

I think you are probably right about Berthault Epoisses being the smelliest cheese. We need to double-wrap it in plastic and an airtight container to keep it from smelling up the whole refrigerator. (It's delicious!)

[Larry Lucido]

LOL! Not sure I want to try the Danish Bimbo or Venezuelan Beaver Cheese.

[asgardshill]

French Cheese Is Found To Be Smelliest in British Researcher's Global Test

[Larry Lucido]

Here we go:

Venezuelan Beaver cheese is a variety of cheese referred to in the Monty Python "Cheese Shop” sketch. Although this delicacy appears to be entirely fictional, various recipes for Venezuelan Beaver cheese have in fact been published. The active ingredients generally include beaver milk (Venezuelan beavers apparently preferred, though Venezuela has no native beavers), rennet and salt.

[null and void]

Dunno. Ever find an armpit hair in your cheese?

[Snuffington]

Always been a fan of that Venezualan Beaver Cheese myself.

No fooling, that skit was my "buying guide" to explore the cheese world for years. When shopping for cheese, if I came across one that was mentioned in that skit, I would pick it up.

[BenLurkin]

How about in your hamburger?

/old joke