Ryujin
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"Parmesan" and "Gorgonzola" aren't actually types of cheese. They're Portected Designations of Origin - essentially meaningless trademarks, except for place of origin rather than manufacturer (so even more irrelevant than a real trademark).
The infuriating thing is that I couldn't tell you what the generic name of these products is. That seems to be a recurring theme with PDOs. Especially the foods. For alcohol products it's a little easier - I know that tequila and Mezcal are the same thing, that burbon is just Whiskey - but foods are often completely inscrutable
The infuriating thing is that I couldn't tell you what the generic name of these products is. That seems to be a recurring theme with PDOs. Especially the foods. For alcohol products it's a little easier - I know that tequila and Mezcal are the same thing, that burbon is just Whiskey - but foods are often completely inscrutable
They're not just based on place of origin – they're for specific types of cheese produced in those locations. So Parmesan doesn't refer to any cheese produced in Parma, but specifically to a particular type of hard cheese made from milk from cows fed exclusively on grass and made in a particular manner. In the case of Parmesan, there doesn't seem to be a non-PDO term. There is "grana-type cheese", but that's a more generic term that also covers other similar types of cheese. Same thing with Gorgonzola – it's a type of blue cheese, but there are plenty of other blue cheeses.
Yes, but what would be that type of blue cheese made somewhere else be called?
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MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
Funny that Mezcal is itself also PDO. And because getting it is expensive -because every influencer and theie dog wanted theor own brand-, many small producers are just selling "agave spirits" (destilado from agave).
It wouldn't. Here in Europe, you either get non-specific blue cheese (though here in Sweden, we usually differentiate between green and blue cheese in ways English apparently doesn't do) or get a different kind of named cheese, e.g. Danablu, Cambozola, or Stilton.
HaroldTheHobbit
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Today I learned from in situ observation that while keeping ducks in the garden make it free of snails and slugs, the ducks won’t touch or taste the redlisted panther slug. I gave my duck pals an extra bowl of yummy peas for being so environmentally concious.
Duck: "Don't eat those ones, they're foul!"
Slug: "Look who's talking."
There has to be someone else who makes an identical cheese. I don't buy into Europe's magic land voodoo for one second. Yes the soil affects the plants, yes the plants affect the cows. But the soil and the plants ca both be duplicated. There's nothing special about them.
They might, but it will have a different specific name rather than a generic one.
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