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"Pong on the nose; pure pleasure on the palate" is the description of Highland Fine Cheeses' Minger on the business' website.

Crafted in a dairy in the north of Scotland, it is billed as the worlds smelliest cheese. And now The Minger is making its malodorous presence felt all around the world.

Rory Stone, a cheesemaker from Scotland, likens the cheese's pungent aroma to a welly boot.

As soon as he opened the overhead locker that pong so familiar to Rory Stones nostrils started wafting through the cabin. Passengers glanced round in his direction. What was that smell?

The Minger, a pungent cheese thats runny when ripe, is "just too much" for some people, its creator warns.

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The aptly named Minger has been produced in the North of Scotland for seven years and has won legions of fans among adventurous foodies, and is now being sold across the UK for the first time.

An artisan cheese hailed as the smelliest in the world is to grace the nation’s Christmas dinner tables after its maker signed an exclusive deal with one of Britain’s largest supermarkets.

A firm in Scotland that makes artisan cheeses have signed a deal with a shopping chain for them to stock what is being claimed is the world's smelliest - it is described as having a 'meaty' and 'cabbagey' scent

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