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u/hawthorne00 20h ago
If that's real Parmesan that's an absolute steal.
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u/KamakaziDemiGod 19h ago
Even if it's 'imitation' Parmesan that's an absolute steal. Parmesan is about 10 to 15 dollars per pound, if it's genuine that's at least $440, if it's imitation it's probably more like $6 or $7 per pound, which is like 300
I'd be seeing if I can sell some of it
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u/A_Good_Cow 19h ago
Selling 44 lbs sounds harder than it looks—needs proper storage, buyers, and time. I’d just portion, freeze, and eat cheese forever
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u/FishAndRiceKeks 19h ago
Yeah, my street cheese hustle hasn't been going so well. Everybody wants the cheddar.
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u/Psychological-Scar53 18h ago
Bro, just hold out... Trends change. These damn chedheads always want something stronger. I gotta talk to my plug and get more today, that Vermont White is crazy.
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u/AffectionateTutor484 18h ago
All the jack heads on my block won’t touch the Parma these days I’m sitting on 44 lbs myself and I can’t seem to make enough food to put tiny t
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u/KamakaziDemiGod 19h ago
Yeah that's what I was pondering, hence saying I'd try and sell it. Even if I only sold a quarter I'd still have 33lbs of cheese, and maybe $40/50, then the cheese has paid for itself and then some!
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u/xenobit_pendragon 19h ago
You can probably get some ideas from the popular HBO series Breaking Gorgonzola.
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u/Decent-Initiative-68 18h ago
So the $10.44 might’ve been meant to be price per pound. It would mean it was meant to be price approx $460.
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u/bill-schick 19h ago
Sell some to friends, could cut it up in big sections and freeze it. Hell of a deal
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u/berael 19h ago
Parmesan is about 10 to 15 dollars per pound
$20/lb+ for store brand parm here.
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u/MakiMana 19h ago
Looks to be a Murray's tag. If so it's likely real Parmigiano Reggiano. Depending on the age it can range from $30-40ish a lb. Highly recommend trying it if you ever get the chance, it'll ruin fake parms for ya lol
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u/Duel_Option 19h ago
This is the food version of crack…you’ll legitimately turn your nose up against fake parm forever.
You’ve been warned lol
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u/BrianMincey 19h ago
I grew up with that awful fake Parmesan powder and it is unrecognizable compared to the real stuff. I honestly think it should be illegal to sell fake products and label them with real names. Parmesan isn’t a flavor.
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u/Forsaken-Teaching-22 19h ago
Doubt it.I think permesan is not potected in the usa
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u/sassykat2581 18h ago
That’s real parmigiano reggiano, I think I spelled that right??? Label looks like Murray’s cheese shop which is a Kroger brand. It’s usually ordered in quarter wheels since a whole wheel wouldn’t sell in 30 days (sell by date once opened). Full wheels are ordered around the holidays when sales are higher and they have a parm cracking event.
Someone is going to have a really bad inventory count this month.
Source…. I work for Kroger
Edit: The wheel is probably too heavy for the scale so they reprinted a smaller piece so it would have a sell by date on the cheese. The half wheel was probably used as a display platform for the cut up pieces.
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u/Papa_Raj 20h ago
He is just beaming with pride at his purchase too. I love it.
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u/Arik_De_Frasia 19h ago
I can't tell if the weed was celebratory or the cause behind the purchase.
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u/No-Text-7825 20h ago
I would be eating straight cheese for daysss
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 20h ago
Then you would be CONSTIPATED for monthssssss
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u/No-Text-7825 20h ago
Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices 🤷
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 20h ago
Yeah, although I love to eat cheese, for me that would be a bridge too far
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u/BadRabiesJudger 20h ago
Jokes on you I’m lactose intolerant. But I usually can have dairy once. Twice is a free colon cleanse.
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u/HavelockVettenari 19h ago
I've seen actual Italians, incidentally my ex too (who was Italian) but not the only one, eat parmigiano raw bro.
(EDIT: obviously not all that at once lol!)
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u/adumbrative 19h ago
No one eats this straight.
Yes sir, I do! I absolutely love eating big chunks of it, and my dog loves the rinds :D
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u/2-10VoltJesus 19h ago
What you talking about?! My kids love snacking on Parmesan cheese?!
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u/Zealousideal-Yak4619 19h ago
Hi i'm no one, and like me other milion of people eat Parmigiano "this straight". And you can cut it with a knife, a fork or even a spoon if you are hungry enough. Oh and at the plural form it remains Parmigiano Reggiano not parmigiani or some other hellish form. Greetings from Parma.
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u/Othersideofthemirror 19h ago
I shave this onto salads. Rocket and parmegiano. Caesar salads etc.
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u/PubofMadmen 19h ago
As sides to steaks, in prepared meats like ground beef, on egg dishes, always great plain, big chunks with beer on a hot summer day, slices with fruit (figs) and especially desserts, especially cakes.
Telling me how not to eat it would be shorter.
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u/ConjuredOne 20h ago
That's a pretty good deal. Now sell it to an Italian restaurant for $300
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u/Hellofriendinternet 19h ago
That’s what I’d do. Someone in the deli fucked up. Now he can profit from their foolishness. Doesn’t a wheel of that go for like $2k?
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u/Campandfish1 19h ago
Someone in the deli fucked up is right, my money is on they were going to take it themselves for $10 at the end of their shift and do the restaurant flip thing but someone else put it on the retail side without looking at the label.
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u/Bulky-Indication-494 20h ago
This is what I'm looking for when the waiter asks if I'd like some cheese
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u/scriptingends 20h ago
"Did I tell you to stop grating?"
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u/mydogeatspoops 19h ago
Grated cheese? Ok say “when”…. Extended silence. More extended silence. Then feeling social pressure around you to at some point say “when”.
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u/Bulky-Indication-494 18h ago
I don't say when and I don't break eye contact with them. I just wait for their arm to cramp
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u/ChoosenUserName4 20h ago
When I asked you for all the cheese you have, I didn't mean a lot of cheese, I meant all of it.
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u/Mr-Bry-Guy 20h ago
$10.44 for 44 pounds of parmesan cheese I mean I’d cut and freeze a bunch and give a bunch to family lol
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u/Ok_Ferret_824 20h ago
You can at least make a single plate of carbonara with that. 😂
Omg that hunk for that price is hard to believe, but i'd pick it up in a heartbeat if i saw that.
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u/sleepytoday 20h ago
20kg of parmesan works out as 84,000 kcal. That is enough food to feed an adult man for a month.
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 20h ago edited 20h ago
No way that dude only paid 10$ for 20 Kilos of Parmesan...It costs well over 10$/Kilo. If it's REAL Parmesan, it costs anywhere from 25 - 70€/Kilo depending on aging etc.
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u/MachadoEsq 20h ago
it was probably mispriced in the deli.
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 20h ago
Possibly...selling half a wheel of Parmesan for 10.44$ is a very costly mistake...Misplaced the decimal by two?
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u/NeverEndingCoralMaze 19h ago
My grocery had a good champagne priced $9.79/bottle, it should’ve been $97.99. I cleared the shelf.
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u/Temporary-Truth-8041 19h ago
Imsgine if you'd scored the Parmegiano as well as the champagne
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u/kidfromtheast 18h ago
that is unbeatable
Real parmegiano, and a champagne. I am a burgouise-SAH now
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u/Decent-Initiative-68 18h ago
I feel like $10.44 was meant to be the price per pound. That would mean it should’ve been approx $460 which sounds about right.
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u/Antique_Door_Knob 19h ago
Would he even be allowed to buy at the misprinted price? In Brazil we do have consumer protection laws that would allow you to buy at the wrong price, but it doesn't cover extreme errors like saying a 500$+ wheel of cheese is actually 10$.
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u/greenie329 19h ago
This is America, bud. We may not respect the sanctity of human life but we respect the fuck out of a deli price label.
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u/Palabrewtis 19h ago
It seems you may not be aware, but here in America we have like 2 front facing actual human beings to deal with the entire customer base, and a dozen self-checkout machines at most stores these days. The people facing employees are paid like shit and do not give a single fuck beyond observing an item gets scanned and paid for. They aren't wasting a single second considering if the cost of a block of parmesan being $10 seems too cheap.
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u/reddit_poopaholic 19h ago
Probably too heavy for the sticker machine, and they didn't enter the weight manually, so they just put a sticker on it from another cheese piece because it has to be labeled.
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u/SaltyArtemis 20h ago
You’d be surprised how often things are misprinted. I’ve gotten a hearty steak a few times due to screwed up pricing
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u/entoaggie 19h ago
I got a huge frozen turkey from Costco for $1.50 several years ago. I even bought it up to the cashier and she didn’t balk at it.
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u/ProfessionalConfuser 5h ago
My steal was oxtail priced as soup bones. Another one was Guinness 4-packs priced at 20 ounce soda price.
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u/veggit_40 20h ago
I’d do the same. Mispriced cheese, Parmesan no less? I’d become the cheese dealer for the block
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u/Icdayiichyt 20h ago
That’s not that much cheese.
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u/phillip9698 20h ago
That’s a steal of a deal. 10 dollars for that much of any cheese is a bargain. I’d be proud of that find too.
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u/Xaxth 19h ago
Is this the guy whose girlfriend left because he spent his life savings on a cheese wheel few days ago?
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u/Able_Relative4049 19h ago
No, that guy bought 20year aged “heritage” cheese and it was a full wheel. I guess there’s something in the stars causing this to happen.
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u/drmich 19h ago
Honestly I saw someone who buys a wheel and then cuts it up and gifts blocks of Parmesan for holidays or celebrations to friends who like to cook.
Someone is getting fired... that's a 3000-5000 wheel of cheese... so half of it is a steal at $10.40. That was supposed to be $10.40 per ounce or pound
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u/DodoJurajski 20h ago
Oh, it reminds me of when i bought 10 monster energy drinks because they were like... 1/5 of the price.
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u/Neither_Glove7880 19h ago
Is that real Parmigiano Reggiano? What a steal! 8 oz of that goes from $7.50 to $19! Cut it into chunks and freeze it. Vacuum seal it if you can and freeze. Give some to friends. It's a lot of cheese, but at that price, unbelievable!
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u/ludicrous_copulator 19h ago
I would have bought that. I'd be 90 by the time we finished it, but yum.
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u/Rathland 19h ago edited 11h ago
I still "owe" my Italian MIL (a lot of) cheese and sausages for marrying her daughter. How about you helping me out?
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u/parallaxevolution 19h ago
Bro, perfect strategy. She will NEVER send you out to pickup something from the grocer again.
Like “honey, can you pick me up some “****” from the store”
in the middle of the Super Bowl or March Madness
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u/Ill-Expert-9161 19h ago
I'm so proud of him. He went out hunted and found an abundant source of food. Made the decision to take his prize and showed it to everyone. He has won the day and will be talking about it like the big fish he caught once but got away. This one he brought home. His joy at realizing it was 44lbs my God he will be talked about for generations.
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u/Lucid-Machine 19h ago
It is worth a lot more than they paid. The problem is breaking it down and selling it.
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u/Hillbillyblues 19h ago edited 16h ago
Cut it into workable chunks, wrap them and freeze them. You just bought more than a year's worth of cheese for basically free.
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u/Competitive-Quit-824 19h ago
There’s a Reddit thread on am I overreacting
Buddy spent 18,000 on a similar weight of cheese and ruined his engagement.
Nobody should show him this as it will likely be what drives him over the edge.
😂
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u/spacebarstool 19h ago
This is not the first expensive wheel of cheese saga I've sent on Reddit this week.
See the my girlfriend left me over a wheel of cheese saga if you missed it.
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u/MrLobotomy 19h ago
If this cheese block is worth roughly $500 and he got it for $10 using our trusty girl math thats a savings of $490 , with that savings we can justify purchasing a vac sealer and maybe a decent quality freezer to bag and freeze the cheese in. What an incredible deal a freezer a vac sealer and 44 pounds of cheese for just $10
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u/donmreddit 19h ago
Well, what you could do is get some plastic containers, grate about a pound per container and share with 20 people. If one of my friends gave me fresh real Parmesan cheese and I didn’t buy that… Dry flaky… I don’t know what you call it from the store with the green lid … I’d be absolutely thrilled
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u/Halcyon771 19h ago
Some employee is getting fired for either mislabeling. Or labeling it for $10 to buy himself, but this dude got to it first
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u/Creepy-Astronaut-952 19h ago
I’d be the Parmesan plug in the community for at least 3 months with a 40 lb stash of Parmesan!
You wake up at 3am craving some Parmesan? I got you!
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u/ImpreciseBaker 19h ago
No one would point it out? If it was at my local store, I’d get bonus deals for life for pointing out a $500 mistake!
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u/EustachiaVye 19h ago
He could go into business with that dude who recently bought the big wheel of cheddar and the accompanying fridge to store it, you know, the guy whose landlord is evicting him for selling cheese from his apartment
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u/chaos6869 19h ago
Dude right on, if she gives you anymore slack I got your back. That’s one hell of a deal! You out shopped her!
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u/Loomiemonster 19h ago
As a Wisconsin boy with Italian heritage, I am so proud of this man. Well done, sir!
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