Olympic gymnast Giorgia Villa is sponsored by parmesan and takes many photos with a wheel of cheese

Thanks, and my romantic life is going grate

An aged cheddar has a fascinating complexity. Give me cheeses old enough to have gained wisdom

Would be a shame not to share that cheese with the world. In the states I've seen full wheels go for about $1k.

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

She's a cheese-ist! Get her!

The dairy industry and the meat industry are two sides of the same coin.

Hope they use the same ones they did for veal.

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.

Less a brand name because multiple companies can make parmigiano reggiano, but it's a combination of requirements designed to protect local industry - for example, for it to be parmigiano reggiano cheese it has to be made with one of two lists of three ingredients, the milk has to come from cows from a specific region of Italy, a certain percentage of the feed for those cows must come from a specific region of Italy, is aged for a certain minimum time, etc, etc. It's an entire set of industries protected by a legal definition of a cheese.

When you see "parmesan" instead of "parmigiano reggiano" it's a similar sort of cheese that isn't made within the legally protected definition. Most often it's just not made in the one specific part of Italy with milk from cows from that part of Italy fed by feed from that part of Italy, it's made somewhere else using dairy that doesn't have to be imported. Or it's aged "enough" for the flavors to develop but not the full time required. Or both.

There are a whole array of product designations in the EU that basically exist to protect individual agricultural industries from competition by requiring that products be made in a certain place, or using products from a certain place in order to prevent outsiders from duplicating the product, increasing supply and driving down prices.

Basically the same logic as "if it's not from the Champagne wine region in France it's just sparkling white wine." Also the same reason why "real" balsamic vinegar costs a fucking fortune.

They happen to also be known for their sausages.

can olympians do that? i’ve never seen any of them do it so i will assume not.

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.

My back couldn't handle holding that much cheese now. :(

Lemmies are even worst than Reddit in taking a joke.

If you've never hit the unlucky lottery and smelled fish before, you might very well be a virgin.

And you lack the self-awareness to understand why so many think "vegan bad". You're a naive and petulant child.

Those innocent animals were burned because of your actions.