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Limburger cheese (Original Post) hedgehog Nov 2014 OP
How can you tell when Limburger goes bad ? eppur_se_muova Nov 2014 #1
Keeps malaria away. GeorgeGist Nov 2014 #2
That is so cool, but... cbayer Nov 2014 #7
I bought some a couple of years ago and I had really mixed feelings about it. cbayer Nov 2014 #3
I was thinking about that thread when reading this. greatauntoftriplets Nov 2014 #4
Your suggestion was to throw it overboard! cbayer Nov 2014 #5
Yes, but that stuff stinks to high heaven! greatauntoftriplets Nov 2014 #8
MiddlefingerMom! hedgehog Nov 2014 #6
Maybe you should find out what that cheese was! cbayer Nov 2014 #9
I wonder if it was hand cheese Kali Nov 2014 #11
I have never heard of hand cheese. cbayer Nov 2014 #12
yeah Kali Nov 2014 #10
Yea! I love stinky cheeses. trof Nov 2014 #13

GeorgeGist

(25,294 posts)
2. Keeps malaria away.
Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:00 PM
Nov 2014

Bart Knols of Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands and colleagues in Tanzania, Austria, and Italy won the biology prize for finding that the female of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae craves equally the smell of stinky feet and Limburger cheese. Dr Knols's “eureka” moment came when he realised that Limburger cheese is cultured with Brevibacterium epidermidis, a bacterium found on human skin. This finding has practical applications, said Dr Knols. By using an organism that emits an odour alluring to mosquitoes scientists hope to build traps that will monitor malaria infestation in mosquitoes to aid efforts at extermination. The work of Dr Knols and his colleagues at several other universities will receive an $8m (£4.3m; €6.3m) grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue their work to reduce the spread of malaria in Africa.

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
7. That is so cool, but...
Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:33 PM
Nov 2014

it means that you are more likely to attract mosquitoes if you have it around, right?

Thanks for the info!

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
3. I bought some a couple of years ago and I had really mixed feelings about it.
Tue Nov 11, 2014, 05:05 PM
Nov 2014

I bought it in a thick spreadable form.



I like strong cheeses and this is definitely a strong cheese.

I made a mac and cheese with some of it, and that was better than eating it alone.

Here is a thread I started when I wasn't quite sure what to do with it. If nothing else, it's pretty amusing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115731028

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
12. I have never heard of hand cheese.
Wed Nov 12, 2014, 02:43 PM
Nov 2014

Head cheese, yes, but not hand.

So, I had to look it up, of course.

It appears to be an acquired taste.

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