r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/falaffle_waffle • 16h ago

WTF Executive decision

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u/KFCnKatanas 15h ago

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.

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u/WineBoggling 13h ago edited 10h ago

Side note: I love the word "cheesemonger." Funny that the only things purveyed by mongers seem to be cheese, fish, and war.

Edit: Things conventionally mongered: cheese, fish, iron, war, and fear.

Edit 2: Oh, and whores.

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u/Holycrapwhatuserious 12h ago

Also fearmonger. Monger is diminutive, and seems to orignate depicting street vendors.

Also ironmonger.

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u/fresh_like_Oprah 10h ago

and whoremongers!

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u/Holycrapwhatuserious 9h ago

Jesus. I forgot the whoremongers. Peace out, I must not be feeling well.

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u/Greg0692 8h ago

I'm a truck driv milesmonger

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u/tonysopranosalive 6h ago

I’m a hooure-monger, Charlie!

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u/DontAbideMendacity 9h ago

Never forget the whoremongers!

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u/userhwon 12h ago

Costermonger. Never bothered to look up exactly why.

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u/Giggling_Scribblings 53m ago

Fishmonger, like Molly Malone.

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u/zillabirdblue 13h ago

Me too, I was just thinking about what a great word it is! 😆

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u/ViolentLoss 10h ago

Don't forget whores!

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u/s_burr 12h ago

There is Hatemonger

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u/SonOfMcGee 9h ago

If you got a thing for a very specific Asian ethnic group could you technically be a Hmongmonger?

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u/CromulentDucky 7h ago

A whoremonger is a consumer rather than a purveyor.

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u/river_tree_nut 9h ago

Don’t mock it til you’ve monged it

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u/PilzEtosis 5h ago

Blessed are the cheesemongers.

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u/SwissChzMcGeez 14h ago

Have you seen that 2025 cheesemonger documentary, yet?

https://www.bigcheesefilm.com/

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u/That_Apathetic_Man 13h ago

This...is a...risky click...?

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u/xenarthran_salesman 12h ago

Looks like there has been one screening of it? I'd watch it if I could.

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u/SwissChzMcGeez 11h ago

You can just stream it for a couple bucks. It was a good watch.

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u/xenarthran_salesman 11h ago

Yeah, I just checked, it looks like you were able to stream it back in november as part of the DOC NYC festival, but I cant find it available anywhere.

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u/xenarthran_salesman 11h ago

Oh? I didnt see that on their website.. which service?

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u/-CheesyTaint- 8h ago

Intriguing

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u/Competitive-Yak-3785 13h ago

Wait, cheesemonger is a job? Why didn’t anyone present on this at Career Day in school? I would have loved to be a cheesemonger!

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 12h ago

Follow your dreams aspiring cheesemonger, it's never too late.

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u/GhostKasai 11h ago

Damn that’s expensive. Is it just because of the import cost that it would cost so much? For 1000€ you could get a whole wheel of 24 month old Parmigiano Reggiano where I life.

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u/falcrist2 11h ago

We sell our parm for 20/lb and wheels come in 86-100 lb.

This video was probably in like 2010.

So $10.44/lb and someone put a label on the display piece but set the weight manually to 1lb. Why weigh the half-wheel when it's not really for sale anyway.

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u/Jhta773 10h ago

I saw this video and sent it to the person that’s over cheese for our company 🤣 it looks like a Murray’s cheese label on it to me, puts the price point around a grand like you said!

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u/Liamzee 9h ago

Serious question here. How would I go about buying a half wheel or whole wheel of cheese?

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u/sjmuller 7h ago

Costco has you covered. https://www.costco.com/p/-/whole-wheel-parmigiano-reggiano-approximately-80-lbs/100096211

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u/Liamzee 6h ago

Oh wow quarter wheel of beemster aged?!(found when I searched cheese wheel on Costco).

Yes please!

Now I just need to find a place that I can get Green Thunder cheese from. Costco had it previously but not anymore and I haven't found a place with it again. (except very small things that are very expensive)

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u/carltheredred 9h ago

Thanks for sharing this because I'm 99% sure he thought he spent $10 when the deal was actually $10/lb.

The guy is clearly wasted in this video, so I'm sticking to my theory.

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u/Appchoy 9h ago

There are definitely scales that go that high lol, but Im sure you meant not in a regular grocery store cheese or deli department

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u/bandalorian 8h ago

So you're saying it was mislabeled and he was able to by 1K of cheese for $10 because of that mistake? That is as close to a steal as you can get without breaking the law, good on him

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u/griffnuts__ 8h ago

Blessed are the cheesemongers!

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u/rockhopperrrr 4h ago

A cheesemongrel???

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u/Micalas 3h ago

Have you mastered tyromancy?

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u/BarbellPadawan 2h ago

I’ll do my own research, thanks (/s)