[Sca-cooks] Parmesan cheese (was Armored Turnips)

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Pixel <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Avraham haRofeh wrote:
>  > That's because the grated stuff in the green can isn't Parmigiano. It's
>  > "Parmesan", and poor quality stuff, at that, which rarely tastes
>of anything
>  > but salt.
(SNIP)

>My sweetie and I refer to the canned ground stuff as kibble. If we're
>feeling extremely generous we call it cheese kibble. Then there are the
>preformed wedges of minced and pressed stuff that they sell pretending to
>be real Reggiano but aren't. Plastic cheese.
>
>The kibble works really well to absorb excess grease on a pizza, then you
>just scrape it off. Kind of like using cat litter to absorb spilled motor
>oil.
>
>Margaret

Yeah, well, i call it "cheese sawdust," and it sounds like it really
does function that way.

Nasty stuff.

Anahita