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I like to buy some special cheese to have around during the Holidays - Limburger, yea or nay?
I have a lot of dark beer aficionados, if that's any guide.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)Does it start to smell good, or what ?
GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)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)it means that you are more likely to attract mosquitoes if you have it around, right?
Thanks for the info!
cbayer
(146,218 posts)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
greatauntoftriplets
(175,695 posts)I stand by my suggestion.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)You know me. Wasting food is anathema.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,695 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)that is some nasty smelling stuff
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Head cheese, yes, but not hand.
So, I had to look it up, of course.
It appears to be an acquired taste.