Swedish Fish, Stink Week Style

For Outdoor Dining Only

Everybody loves Swedish Fish, right?  Well, not when it's surstromming.  Surstromming is eaten in northern Sweden and, we'd imagine, nowhere else.  It's basically rotted fish in a can.  Most people eat it outdoors because it smells so bad and it's banned from airplanes because the cans can explode in a horror of yuck.  Definitely a candidate for official food of Stink Week.

Top 10 Stinky Cheese Countdown Cont...

We're searching for the perfect cheese to represent Stink Week using the Top 10 Stinky Cheeses in the World list from HotelClub Travel Blog.  We looked at numbers 10 and 9 earlier.  Let's continue.

Stinking Bishop..love that name!

8.  Stinking Bishop

Now we're talking.  Anything with 'stinking' in the title definitely has the potential to be the official cheese of Stink Week.  It has an orange rind that is really sticky.  Sticky and stinky are good.  Ooo, and it has a powerful odor of old smelly socks.  Excellent.  The blogger writes that "if you plan to buy some, go straight home before people start complaining."  That sounds just like what the teachers say about Jack D. and his friends!  Oh wait a minute.  It says that it's just the rind that smells.  Inside the cheese is soft and delicious.  Delicious?  That's very un-Stink Week.  Next!

Made with the same bacteria that produces B.O.  Lovely!

7.  Limburger

Ahh, an old favorite.  Limburger is legendary for it's stink.  According to the blog it is fermented using the same bacteria responsible for the smell of the human body.  Cheese that smells like B.O.  Sounds delicious.  Uh-oh.  It IS delicious.  "If you can handle its smell long enough to have a bite, you'll realize this German delicacy is quite tasty."  That's unfortunate.  We'll have to keep looking.

How to Stink

Will

We're trying to raise awareness about hearing loss and raise some money, too.  The money goes to help little kids like Will.  Here's some things you can do to help:

Set up a fundraising page and stink with us. 
Support a stinker.  You can find a list of stinkers here.
Tell a friend about Stink Week.

Stinking is easy. 

1.  Set a goal.  Some examples are 'I'm going to raise $500' or 'I'm going to tell 50 people about Stink Week'
2.  Put on a shirt on Friday, February 3rd.
3.  Wear the same shirt every day until Friday, February 10th or until you reach your goal.
4.  Stink.  (That's the easy part)

Hope to smell you soon.

Top 10 Stinky Cheese Countdown

In honor of Stink Week, we'll be counting down the top 10 stinkiest cheeses in the world, according to the HotelTravel Club Blog.  We want to find just the right cheese to represent Stink Week.

10.  Taleggio



Taleggio...it ain't pretty but at least it smells bad

 At number 10 is Taleggio.  According to the blog, it is not a pretty cheese.  No kidding.  It is left in caves to mature and washed with salt-water soaked sponges.  That's pretty gross.

Wait a minute.  It's washed?  That has got to be one stinky cheese if it still smells bad even after they wash it.  But we don't want some sissy cheese that washes representing Stink Week.  Let's see what's at number 9...

9. Stilton

Stilton.  All hail the king...of cheese!

Hmm.  Let's see.  It's called the king of English cheeses and just the right cheese if you like "the smellier the better".  That sounds good.  And by good, of course, we mean that sounds disgusting.  Wait, what's this?  Someone made a perfume of the stench called 'Eau de Stilton'?  A perfume!?  Are you kidding me?  That's an insult to Stink Week.  Of course, maybe we could boil the Stink Week shirts when we are done and sell the stench to raise a few more bucks.  We'll have to think about that...

Ready, Set, Stink!

It's just 5 days until Stink Week! 

We started this blog to chronicle the efforts of Jack D. and his friends to make a stink about hearing loss by refusing to change their shirts until they meet their fundraising goals.  Or until the Environmental Protection Agency shuts them down.  Whichever comes first. 

Jack D. has been practicing hard.  He hasn't bathed in a week.  His whole body smells like feet. 

If you stink, send Jack an e-mail at stinkweek@gmail.com.  We'll post your stories right here every day.  Look forward to smelling you soon.