What Are Your Experiences With Limburger Cheese?

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I love cheese, but THIS stinker has GOT to GO! Here are some questions for you: 1. Are there actually people out there who really like Limburger cheese (for eating purposes)? 2. If you truly enjoy Limburger cheese, how do you eat it? Straight? Mixed with other things? Straight from the package? Prepared in some way? 3. Do you have any Limburger cheese recipes? 4. Finally, what have been some of your personal experiences with this product? My experiences: I'm the kind of person who won't go so far as to eat sushi, raw oysters, eyeballs, cats, dogs, etc. but I'm anything but a picky eater--as one can tell by looking at me, no doubt! LOL So, when I was 14 years old (the summer between eighth grade and high school), I decided that I would like to see what Limburger cheese tasted like. I'd heard that it had a really good flavor, if one could just get past the smell. I also knew that I might even like the smell of it, as not everybody likes to smell the same things. So, my folks and I were on a vacation that involved traveling in some of the western states and Canada. We stopped at one of these wonderful stores in Wisconsin where they sold such goodies as cookies, sausages, and cheese, and I found a package of Limburger cheese. It was probably about the size of a softball (or somewhere between the size of a softball and the size of a baseball) and was, basically, in a round shape. When we had returned to the car, I wanted to get right into my Limburger cheese and taste it. I assumed that I would probably like it a lot and would, likely, eat it all in one setting. As I began to unwrap it, I smelled this kind of sour smell, but I didn't find it to be a smell that would discourage me from eating it. Then, I unwrapped the final layer... Peeeeeee-YEW!!! How can I even BEGIN to describe the HORRIBLE odor that began to fill the car!?! It was a cross between baby-poop, toe-jam, old sneakers, and smelly feet! It was like all of those put together--and at LEAST ten times worse!!! My folks were rolling down the windows and my mom said something like, "PHEW! What on EARTH!?!" I said that I heard that this stuff really tasted good if you held your nose when you ate it--after which, I did just that! UGH!!! My mom asked me if I were finished with it so that she could throw it out the window, and I told her that I definitely was--so she tossed it into a cow pasture. For three solid days--even with the windows down--our car continued to stink like the inside of a dirty sneaker smeared with baby-poo! The next year, my cousin got married, and her brother and cousin had plans to speed back up to Ft. Wayne (where my aunt and uncle had fixed up the family home into a honeymoon cottage and were going to stay away for a few days so that Carolyn and Larry could have it to themselves) and TP the place along with putting Limburger cheese all over the place. My aunt and uncle (Carolyn and Jimmy's parents) got wind of their plans and made sure that their car keys stayed hidden until the newlyweds had the chance to drive up there. Another aunt, uncle, and cousin were threatening this bachelor they knew that (as they had the keys to his place) they were going to place dishes of Limburger cheese over his registers to greet him and his wife when they returned home from getting married, but that was just talk. They never did. You've heard of three of my experiences--so, now, it's YOUR turn...