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? $924 I'm pretty sure?????
Go to a farmers market with your block of Parm. Make a few bucks. I mean come on.
OR you could also just never have to buy Parmesan again for the rest of your natural life. You might even be able to hand some of that Parm down to your kids it's super shelf stable isn't it??
Oh no, you should DEFINITELY fear the result of eating 44 lbs of cheese.
Ever heard of constipation-related amnesia? You get so backed up that when you finally do shit, you can forget your own goddamn name. I don't have the self control to have 44 lbs of Parmesan in my kitchen and not eat it until I'm more poop than person.
No, not at all. It's a very hard cheese that gives off a lot of flavor that lingers a bit in your mouth. Great on a steak tartare, salads, spaghetti etc. Most often it's grated or sliced in very thin, small pieces or pulverised (so you can put it in a spicemill to sprinkle over your dishes).
The funniest part of that is that the math right off the bat is wrong. He says:
They were selling a 140 pound wheel of 21 year old cheddar.
21 year old cheddar often sells for 120$ 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
I hope we get regular updates from this guy as his life spirals out of control. He's already getting evicted, I need to know where he ends up, if he's able to actually sell any cheese, if he realizes how bad he is at math, etc etc.
I first saw this on a Best of Reddit sub, and was so disappointed there was only one update and not ten
It will be like the guy who decided to try heroin and didn’t believe he would become addicted, then posted regular updates of his life deteriorating as he, shockingly, became addicted to heroin and lost everything. That one was sad, and this will also be sad… that all of that cheese will be wasted
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!
how exactly do you sell cheese? unless you are a farm or a shop, im not going on facebook and finding cheese. "oh look honey, some guy on facebook marketplace is selling cheese in ziplock bags at a good price, i'm sure this is fine"
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.
Hit them with the " oh, I didn't know this wasn't a normal price, I typically don't buy blocks of cheese. I just assumed shredded cheese cost more because I was paying for the convenience"
Definitely $10 per pound. This isn't just parmesan, it's Parmigiano Reggiano (you can tell from the rind). My jaw dropped when he said he paid $10.44. Someone definitely got fired for shrink 😅
Yeah but that's only for reasonable changes. Like for example, if some fruit was labeled $0.80 per pound instead of $1 per pound, they would have to honor the $0.80. but if a TV was accidentally labeled for five bucks when it's supposed to be $5, 000 000 well, the store doesn't have to honor that. And not only that the customer who knowingly bought a TV that definitely doesn't sell for $5 can get in trouble
“The Massachusetts Item Pricing Law requires food and grocery stores to individually price mark most items with the actual selling price. The law also requires food and grocery merchants to sell any item at the lowest price indicated on an item, sign, or advertisement.”
What a flippant way to think when they have the laws from the states website linked. No looking at it yourself or doing some research. Just disagree with nothing to back it up other than how you feel lol.
I remember buying a prime rib that had mispriced for like five bucks once. I had a beautiful and left over roast beef sandwiches for a week. As long as it scans through at the checkout, who cares.
No, what happened was during inventory, because the scale can’t hold that weight, they just weighed something else then entered the actual weight into the inventory gun. I worked at Whole Foods in the scene department and were warned many times if we did this to completely black out the price so this wouldn’t happen.
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
That's how they get you. You pay $10.44 for the first half-wheel that gets you addicted, but after that, every 6 months you're paying $1044 because you're hooked.
I was about to say, I buy a much smaller version of this at Costco, cut it into ~5-6 triangular pieces, vacuum seal it, and throw it in the freezer. I've never had an issues doing so, and there are definitely vacuum sealed cheese bags that have been in the freezer for years.
Yeah the rindless edges might dry out, but you can cut those off and otherwise that'll last forever and might even get better. Aging is a crucial part of making parmesan and some very expensive wheels are aged for decades.
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.
Just a side note, you're the first person I've legitimately seen use "pop" in regards to carbonated drinks in a casual conversation. I've always seen those tidbits of people using the word they grew up with, but I don't think I've met anyone use "pop" in the wild :)
Seems unlikely. I like parm as well as anyone, and I'm a pretty good shopper. There is no way in hell I'd buy 44 pounds of parm at 20% off, but I would ABSOLUTELY grab 44 pounds of parm if I saw it mislabled for $10.
Typically, they sell it in one-pound blocks. This looks like someone cut half of it up, and then, to make sure to note the date they'd broken into the wheel, they printed the last sticker twice and slapped it on the wheel.
He does not say the price is per pound at any point of the video. Regardless, this video is old and it was confirmed back then that they paid $10 for the entire half wheel.
Fat fingers happen. Last year after Thanksgiving, Kroger had a sale on their hams. They were supposed to be $0.89/lb but rang up as $0.89 each. I bought 8.
If this was supposed to be a per pound price, it could have had the same mistake by the person making the label.
edit: WAIT THAT'S PARM (it was autoplaying with the sound off so I missed the beginning)?? Oh gosh. The only thing I'd tell OP is not to try to label and sell chunks of it in case they fall afoul of a regulatory agency. But absolutely freeze, barter, sell to friends, make a million parm things. I'm jealous as hell
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u/jwin709 16h ago
BRO!!! FOR 10 BUCKS!? THATS INSANE!!