It must pain HNers in US that if they perceive these items as problems then they have little access to tasty unpasteurized cheeses which would help ease the blows.
http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/consumers/ucm079516....
I'm from Oz originally, and they unfortunately ban unpasteurized cheese too.
You can get raw milk and cheese all over New Hampshire, including in supermarkets, and apparently many other states for that matter[1]. I never even knew there were restrictions in some states until your comment.
Apparently, even where raw milk/cheese is banned in the U.S., cheese produced from raw milk is legal as long as its been aged for more than 60 days.
Your link is good information... there are many states where it looks quite difficult to get unless you have a local farmers' market
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/raw_milk_map.htm
simonsarris kindly helped me out ( myself being in the UK )
Not sure what your point is, it's still delicious. Also brie is not the worst smelling cheese by a very long shot. Maroilles is way worse and used in tarts (a common saying is that after you make a maroilles tart you have to throw out the oven).
And of course they have nothing on (non-cheese) surströmming or hákarl
Brie in general I love. But the only time I've tried brie de meaux from unpasteurised milk it really, really stank and I didn't care for the taste either. And I will eat most ripe and blue cheeses happily.
I've yet to try surstromming after being warned off it by a Swedish friend. Of course he didn't seem to like any Swedish food so may not be the best person to listen to on that count!
If that's what you meant, I can only state that, as far as I'm concerned, you're definitely and unambiguously wrong.
However, despite the interstate commerce ban, some 29ish states have various states of unpasteurized sales, ranging from allowing it in grocery stores to only allowing it to be sold from the farms.
In my state, raw milk products cannot be sold at grocery stores except where allowed by federal law (cheeses past 60 days).