@Felthry where's the option for emmental or gouda
@Nine those are very very different cheeses from what i'm asking about!
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@Felthry ooh I thought you were talkinga bout what people call the cheese emoji XD
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@Felthry Just generic "parmesan" for us. Didn't know there was a separate non-generic version!
@frostwolf parmagiano-reggiano is a protected designation of origin in the EU and a controlled name outside the EU and can only be used for cheese that specifically is made in Parma, Reggio Emelia, and parts of Bologna, Modena, and Mantua
It's a very expensive cheese and very highly regarded so there's lots of knockoffs, most "parmesan" that you buy in the US is generic (in the EU, parmesan is also a protected designation of origin)
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@Felthry Oh /huh/! What do they call generic what-we-call-parmesan over there?
@frostwolf i don't know
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@frostwolf pecorino romano is the same thing with the added fact that most knockoffs tend to be made with cow's milk, while the real thing is made with sheep's milk
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@frostwolf (by same thing I mean it also has a PDO and all that, not that it's the same cheese made with different milk)
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@Felthry /Oh/ okay I thought you /did/ mean it was the same cheese with different milk. (:
@frostwolf no they're actually very different cheeses
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@Felthry yes. Pecorino Romano doesn’t fuck me up like cow milk so it’s my go to “shake cheese.” Pricier, but how fast do I really go through it? I like the stuff though have little perspective on how it compares to more standard Parmesan.
@Leucrotta it's a very very different cheese. sheep's milk has a very distinct flavor and that carries over to cheeses made with it, I suppose!
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Does it count if it's in a jar of pesto?
as a follow-up to this, have you ever tried actual parmagiano-reggiano or pecorino romano cheeses?