[Sca-cooks] Parmesan cheese (was Armored Turnips)
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 23 08:34:21 PDT 2002
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
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