An oldie but a goody — Limburger cheese, the butt of jokes in cartoons (pun intended).
I've eaten it, and in my experience, it smelled like a sewer although the taste didn't seem extreme at all ... mostly like a sharp cheddar.
Limburger is a cheese that originated during the 19th century in the historical Duchy of Limburg, which is now divided among modern-day Belgium, Germany, and Netherlands. The cheese is especially known for its pungent odor commonly compared to the odor of flatulence. ... the cheese produces its notorious smell because the bacterium used to ferment Limburger cheese and many other smear-ripened cheeses is Brevibacterium linens, the same one found on human skin that is partially responsible for body odor.
I've eaten it, and in my experience, it smelled like a sewer although the taste didn't seem extreme at all ... mostly like a sharp cheddar.