Giant MICE!..................
Posted on 06/22/2018 10:33:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Parmigiano-Reggiano thieves are driving producers to drastic measures; “This is Fort Knox for cheese”
SERRAMAZZONI, Italy—The thieves came in the thick of darkness. They used a blowtorch to pry open steel bars and sneaked through a narrow window before making off with their loot. Less than 24 hours later, they came back for more.
In all, they made off with almost 25,000 pounds of Parmesan cheese.
The target was Santa Rita Bio, a small producer of Italy’s famous Parmigiano-Reggiano. The thieves took 271 wheels of organic cheese, weighing 90 pounds each and with a total street value of $300,000. The wheels had been aging in a nondescript warehouse here amid a bucolic setting of rolling green hills, vineyards and hilltop castles.
The thieves “had to have been pretty thin, because that is a small window,” said Graziano Poggioli, Santa Rita’s vice chairman, as he pointed to the opening.
Now, the Santa Rita warehouse sits almost empty. Its wooden shelves bear circular stains where the Parmigiano once rested. A new set of steel bars block the window.
In the pantheon of Italian food products, Parmigiano is up there with pasta and raw Parma ham. The shape of an uncut wheel is practically a national symbol: Two-thirds of Italians use Parmigiano regularly, according to a poll by market-research firm Ipsos published this month. By law, it can only be produced in a restricted area that includes the cities of Parma and Reggio Emilia, which lend their names to the cheese.
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The thieves were up to no Gouda.
The authorities were not amoosed.
Well, my first thought was mice.......
Zing!
Giant MICE!..................
Just checked and no one has been near my toes. The fromunda is also safe. Can’t tell you if you don’t know.
Is it by any chance Moose season?
This thread will turn bleu.
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We just had an Italian exchange student. His family kept having to send him wedges of Pariggiano (sp?) as he used it in everything.
He was not impressed with Kraft “Parmesan.”
Again? What’s with all the cheese thieves? It’s just cheese.
Our grocery doesn’t sell it so all I’ve ever bought is the stuff in the green can. Can’t say I’ve missed anything.
Fresh ground cheese makes the Green Can taste like floor scrapings!..............
LOL!......................somehow I just knew that was coming....................
The thieves took 271 wheels of organic cheese, weighing 90 pounds each and with a total street value of $300,000.
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Any cheese with a street value must be really good cheese.
But by the time that it actually gets to "the street," it will probably have been "cut" with cheap parmesan.
Regards,
Oh, cheese whiz! Munster happened when no one was watching. Did they feta the bars properly The Racklette should have awoken the dead. Well I guess the owners are singing the blues.
I prefer Locatelli Romano. That being said I can’t eat any dairy any more. ANY!
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