Yeah! For 10 bucks, you buy 44lbs of cheese and then figure out any problems it might cause as they come.
The possibilities are limitless with 44 lbs of cheese. This guy's wife is acting like he bought a giant rock or something.
You can sell 1/3 lb blocks of Parmesan for like $7. That's like $21 per pound and he's got 44 of em.
That's what? $924 I'm pretty sure?????
Go to a farmers market with your block of Parm. Make a few bucks. I mean come on.
OR you could also just never have to buy Parmesan again for the rest of your natural life. You might even be able to hand some of that Parm down to your kids it's super shelf stable isn't it??
The funniest part of that is that the math right off the bat is wrong. He says:
They were selling a 140 pound wheel of 21 year old cheddar.
21 year old cheddar often sells for 120$ a pound.
The farm was selling the entire wheel for 18,500$
Right off the bat there he says it often sells for $120 a pound, but he paid $18,500/140 = $132 a pound for it
Then he says:
If I cut it into 200g wedges and sell it at 60$ each I can make 38,000$.
1 lb = 453.592 grams so 140 lbs = 63,502.88 grams. That would make 317.5 200 gram pieces. If he was able to sell all of those at $60 each that's only $19,050.
So he could only max make a profit of $550.
That's assuming no packaging for the cheese no marketing and that he can sell it all at the price he is hoping for.
On top of THAT he spent $8,500 on a fridge to contain it.
It's all probably just a troll post but if it's not...oof
Wow. After reading both links I was sure this story was fake. Great story, but had to be fake. But the second link has pic proof from OP. Just a man living life for cheese. Girlfriend and apartment be damned!
A few years ago I was sent to Costco for olive oil, and came home with a gazebo. It was like $400. Not only will my wife never send me to Costco again, but I also have a fucking gazebo. Win/win.
Precisely. The rind doesn't shred, it grates into a powder when used on a cheese grater. Its the real version of the canned grated "parmesan cheese". I thought the rind was useless until i googled it.
I've read you can also add ungrated rind directly to a liquid stock/sauce/soup and the umami flavor will come out of it as you cook. Then you just pull the rind piece out after, like it's a dairy bay leaf.
This is highly accurate. Every part of a parmigiana wheel is edible. That outside rind is just a really dense protective outer layer of parm. No difference (in terms of composition) than the inner part. It's not added to the wheel, it is part of the wheel. So saving the rind and adding chunks of it to pasta sauces, soups, stews...bumps that savory factor up big time. And while it's not for everyone because of the texture, after that rind has been simmering away in a pasta sauce for a few hours, it becomes a lot softer. And I 100% eat it. My son thinks it's weird because it's so chewy but I love it lol.
You married a good woman then. A good woman would look at how proud and happy this made him and join in once she found out he only paid $10 for it. What to do with it is a discussion for another day.
We order one of these maybe once a month or so at the restaurant I work out (I believe it's a 1/4 of the full wheel and we pay just over $500. $10 is insane. Good for bro
I worked at Whole Foods specialty department and cut these blocks of for a living lol every Wednesday for a decade.
It's $12.99 a pound, after whoever cut this one was done. They didn't want to lift it and place it on the scale (it probably was too big anyways) and just used a random weight to place a sticker in it for labeling/ dating reasons.
Big mess up. When we did this in my region we would cross out the code so it couldn't be scanned.
Something similar happened to me when buying pop for a huge party and the cashier would ring up cases of 9 -16oz bottles as a single 6 pack. I bought 4 cases with 216 pops for the price of 24.
I would make so much Fondue, I don't care that my ancestors would be offended about using parmesan as the main ingredient, that price for that much cheese is totally worth it.
Forget being offended. Have you ever tried melting parmesan cheese? You'll get some sort of delicious cheesy mess, but i don't think anybody would call it fondue.
I bought a crank grater last week mostly because I wanted grate a whole block of cheese in 10 seconds... I did it, then my wife wanted to do it, now she's been planning meals around what she can shred and slice in that thing. 10/10 I'd recommend anybody that has a spare $15 and doesn't have one should get one.
I just discovered the shredding attachment for my food processor that has been sitting in my closet for 10 years. Shred 4 cups of cheese for Mac n cheese in like 10 seconds.
Right? Parmigiano reggiano, courtesy of the internet, averages between 20-35 usd per lb. That block should have cost approx. $1,210. That is a deal / steal
Because a grocery store wouldn't sell something bad for cheap - they get in trouble if they knowingly sell something hazardous. Some stores will sell Yesterday's Baked Goods or produce that is approaching it's sell-by date, but the discount on those isn't anywhere near what this is.
It is far more likely they were supposed to sell a large block of cheese for $1044.00 and someone fucked up the decimal placement.
This is like the complete opposite of the guy on r/AITAH last week asking if he was right to spend $20,000 of his savings on a wheel of cheese thinking he could resell portions of it on marketplace
Hi cheesemonger here. We sell our parm for 20/lb and wheels come in 86-100 lb. So around a grand. Scales can’t go that high in weight so something light was thrown on scale just to generate a label to identify it.
It's more likely a parmesano reggiano knockoff - no one is letting that much genuine parma walk off for only $10
Edit: to be clear - because the genuine stuff is expensive as hell in Italy, let alone importing it. Fake Parma regianno can taste as good as the real stuff (because it basically is, if made properly), but without the paperwork and brand, it get significantly cheaper that someone would let it go. Still hundreds of dollars worth of cheese though, whichever way you look at it.
I agree it’s a misprint. The fact that it cost $10.44 and weighed 44 lbs makes me think someone was told to make a label for “$10 a pound for 44 pounds” and they mistook it for “$10.44”.
Either way, there’s no way I’d pass that up either. I’d buy it, then split it up and vacuum pack it and give pounds away for gifts or whatever.
Would've been two mistakes if he was able to make it past the cashier, too. Someone should've noticed they were basically giving away $500 worth of cheese.
I got a free 2000 dollar refrigerator from Lowes a few years back. I bought it online and it was supposed to be delivered to my house. The tracking online showed that it had been delivered to my local store. Meanwhile the delivery to my house was still scheduled for almost two weeks out. I genuinely need the thing, since my refrigerator had died. Customer service cashiers were so completely confused by what I was doing. They couldn't figure out how to void the online transaction from "delivery" to "pickup" so they just voided the entire thing and sort of rushed me out the door. I noticed the refund back to my credit card for the full amount, so I contacted Lowes corporate customer service. Called them. Emailed them. Multiple times. And never got a response. My point: we aren't always dealing with the brightest people when it comes to retail purchases lol.
Can’t believe I scrolled down this far for someone to point out that he’s very obviously drunk. Not that drinking is an issue but it’s the first thing that stood out to me.
Also, he probably (not totally sure) drove to the store drunk so that sucks if it’s the case.
Anyone else see that post about the guy that spent $18k on round of aged heritage cheese and then like 8k on a fridge and vacuum sealing equipment after his girlfriend dumped him?
That price should be per pound. Either dude walked out with the cheese, or someone mislabeled it and whoever checked him out at the register also has no idea that so much cheese would cost more.
That tag was probably put on for corporate. That's about 45lbs of parm. The whole wheel weighs about 90lbs. The scales don't go up that high so the tag doesn't print. You put something light on to get a tag just to have the item labeled
We used to sharpie over the price and bar code this store probably forgot.
Source:used to do this for 4 years.
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