The fight is about people making a product that is dependent on the region, and climatic conditions, and spending decent amounts of time maturing and quality controlling it, and they invest loads in this. They ask for money, but if they do provide a product worth what they ask, do they really want imitators cutting corners to ruin their reputation?
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My wife likes a well-aged cheddar nearly as much as parmesan, as you get the lactose-salt whatever crystals, crumbly texture, and that is worth loads, as not all cheeses benefit from that sort of aging. I’ve not had an 18 month plus aged grana, but that might be on me.
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Are these the same microchips I am promised are included with my vaccines?
Are the microchips D.O.P. certified?
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Parmesan is already valuable. But it’s just cheese. Any similar cheese you like is OK. Actually Parmesan is an English word and can be anything, Parmigiana is Italian and is an Italian Protected Geographical Indication. It doesn’t mean that any cheese not from Parma is fake or no good.
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The protected designation of origin is Parmigiano Reggiano. In the EU, the name “Parmesan” can only be used for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Within the European Union, the term “Parmesan” may be used, by law, to refer only to Parmigiano Reggiano itself, which must be made in a restricted geographic area, using stringently defined methods. In many areas outside Europe the name “Parmesan” has become genericised and may denote any of a number of hard Italian-style grating cheeses,[30][31] often commercialised under names intended to evoke the original, such as Parmesan, Parmigiana, Parmesana, Parmabon, Real Parma, Parmezan, or Parmezano.[2] After the European ruling that “parmesan” could not be used as a generic name, Kraft renamed its grated cheese “Pamesello” in Europe.[32]
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Yeah but cheese with chips is not even cheese, it’s adulterated cheese.
This is one of the few situations where a blockchain/distributed ledger might actually be useful, assuming that some dairies don’t trust the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to administer all of the records. Although I assume it’s just being used here as a buzzword.
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I believe “microchips” can only be produced in Texas and California and outside of those states, they must be referred to as integrated circuits.
This is similar to how “jeans” can only be produced in San Francisco while “denim” can only be produced in Nîmes, France.
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