we went to the grocery store yesterday and they had a display all about parmigiano-reggiano (which waterfox has helpfully decided should be spelling-corrected to paranoia-reggiano) and in addition to a bunch of reasonably sized wedges of the cheese (which were still really expensive due to being imported cheese) they had five half-wheels of it, about 20 pounds each
i can't help but wonder if anyone has ever purchased one of those from them
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@Felthry nomf
@socks i don't think we've ever had grana padano! we tend to go for the generic "parmesan" that you can get here (it's nothing like actual parmigiano-reggiano but it's still good as a topping on pizzas and stuff), sometimes with some asiago too, just because it's affordable and generally easier to get here
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@socks (i believe "parmigiano-reggiano" does legally have to come from parma though, or at least from italy)
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@socks i'm pretty sure that calling it parmesan wouldn't be legal in europe, but the US doesn't have europe's whole protected designation of origin thing
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