This better not awaken anything in me
These images are almost perfectly arousing, they just need to get rid of the lady and I’ll be at full mast
Too late
Well, I’m not going to not daydream that maybe my little piece of parmesean came from one of those wheels. That’s a lot of cheese - it’s not like they’re going to just throw that out.
I’ve read that in Parma the cheese is so valuable they essentially have banks that hold the cheese for people. I’m almost wondering if this cheese was her payment for the marketing gig.
Would be a shame not to share that cheese with the world. In the states I’ve seen full wheels go for about $1k.
It’s worked for and on me
Username checks out
Thanks, and my romantic life is going grate
This lesbian has big dad energy.
It’s probably why moms are into me
Which cheese fascinates you the most? And is there a fascination type? Are cow milk blue cheeses more fascinating than goat milk cheeses?
An aged cheddar has a fascinating complexity. Give me cheeses old enough to have gained wisdom
As a man of Italian heritage, I find this incredibly appealing on several levels
They’d make all their money back if they auctioned off those particular wheels
that third wheel will go for millions
and the feet ones too probably
Why does the website have this section? I am dying of laughter.
So the money of Big Parma is behind her
Oh to be a wheel of cheese in the embrace of an Olympic gymnast. Sigh Some dreams will never come true.
If I were parmesan I’d sponsor her too. She’s the wheel deal.
Hang on a minute, Parmesan’s a brand? Not just a name of dry Italian cheese?
Parmigiano Reggiano is a protected name like champagne is. To have the name it has to be produced with traditional methods and sourced from the traditional region, all of which is legally defined. They charge a premium for this, and some of it becomes quite expensive.
Why is this so funny?
Average vegetarian
Guilty as charged. I would absolutely devour that wheel.
My daughter would too, but she’s lactose intolerant. She still eats cheese, but not as much as she would if she wasn’t.
Original Parmesan cheese is lactose free after 12 months of seasoning (good ones are generally 24-48 months). The one in the picture says 2012, so it’s safe to assume that your daughter can eat the whole wheel and not be affected by the lactose intolerance at all!
Most hard cheeses don’t have much lactose
I know, I have that genetic flaw too, I just don’t let it slow my cheese consumption. I do like the hard cheeses for that reason though.
I was sad to learn Parmesan isn’t vegetarian :(
I was wondering why:
Calf rennet is used, which comes from the stomach of slaughtered calves.
Hope they use the same ones they did for veal.
They use the ones that are culled for making milk. Bunch of male calves that the dairy industry has no use for. They’re not raised for meat because they’re not as cost effective to feed as beef cattle. Gotta keep getting the cow pregnant to keep making milk.
It’s kind of funny, having the calves slaughtered to get the milk that is naturally meant for them is considered vegetarian (as long as you personally don’t eat the veal).
If they’re kept on abusive factory farms, that’s still vegetarian.
When the dairy cows gets their throats slit because milk production drops below profitablity after ~5 years, the milk is still seen as vegetarian (as long as someone else buys the meat).
No matter how much death and suffering takes place at the farm, the milk is seen as vegetarian. But at rennet, that’s where they draw the line.
Did you know those wheels sweat oil? I hope they were wiped down before. And after, I guess.
They’re fake, made of plastic
I really doubt that… Why would they go through the cost of producing a plastic version of their product when they could simply use the actual article? I worked in a cheese shop for years, these particular wheels are VERY durable - I legitimately can’t think of any benefit in using a fake cheese wheel, aside from TheTetrapod’s correct comment about these wheels sweating oil (which makes most people’s skin breakout into acne) which can be easily and immediately solved by using a rag.
edit: and again, having worked closely with this exact cheese many many many times, that is exactly what they look like as whole wheels. I have zero reason to believe this is plastic.
I’m Italian, those prop cheese wheels are pretty common, for store displays and such. Google “Forma parmigiano plastica” and you’ll find a lot of them.
Vegans: I’m not impressed.