Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Grand Theft Parmigiano

I pass on this mind-boggling story from 'the number one site for cheese news' (a hard-won crown, I'm sure) without comment. Does it mean anything? Are the suffering middle classes really reduced to snaffling wedges of parmesan and pecorino? Where will it all end?
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  1. Anonymous11 March 2009 at 13:49

    wow. I dont know whether to be impressed or appalled that you have been reading the number one site for cheese news..

    not really buying the 'middle class connection' though - surely little greebo's are only stealing it cos its of a high-ish value and yet easy to quickly slide up the cuff of one's burberry anorak?

    then they probably flog it down the pub

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  2. Dick11 March 2009 at 14:03

    As founding editor of Cheese Wire .com I'll thank you to keep your sniffyness to yourself.

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  3. Nige11 March 2009 at 14:38

    Pleased to meet you Mr Cheesewire. I once (and this is true) met a very nice young lady - we were on a train, both rather drunk - who was the Buyer of Hard Cheeses for Sainsburys. It was a proud moment.

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  4. malty11 March 2009 at 16:19

    We have found, over many years of trial and error, that Parmesan has the best hit rate, in our mousetraps, second, a long way behind, Edam.
    The dogs prefer a nice piece of Brie, or Boursin.

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  5. malty11 March 2009 at 16:26

    Nige, I hate to be the one bringing up the subject and talking of big cheeses, where has he gone this time ? No doubt some exotic location in the tropics, interviewing the Dalai Lama perhaps.

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  6. Nige11 March 2009 at 16:33

    Ultima Thule this time I think Malty. Last heard of on Harris. Now he seems to have passed beyond the reach of mobile telephony.

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  7. mahlerman11 March 2009 at 20:21

    As many will doubtless know, there is a spot still to be seen near Seething Lane where Pepys, aided by one William Penn, buried a number of documents, clothing and wine - along with, he says in his diary entry for September 4th, 1666, 'my parmazan cheese' so highly did he value it. This in order that they would survive the Great Fire, started that very day and, one imagines at a later date, return and dig them up. What a man he was.

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