Credit crunch: Italy bails out parmesan

The Telegraph ^ | 12/13/2008 | Nick Pisa in Rome

[Krankor]

That’s grate to hear.

[PistolPaknMama]

So all the goverments of the world are buying all the industries of the world. NWO becomes more of a reality every day.

[T-Bird45]

Cue the Foodie ping list...and call out Mario Batali, while you are at it, too!!!

[Zevonismymuse]

I recently read Grisham’s ‘Playing For Pizza’ which is set in the city of Parma. It was a fun book and when I saw this tread I just had to jump in even though I do not have a dang thing to contribute to the discussion. I would be happy to answer any questions about the book.

[Zevonismymuse]

....when I saw this tread

Pardon me; I meant "re-tread". My bad.

[Melas]

Finally a bailout that I can get behind.

[SkyDancer]

A bit cheesy if you ask me ....

[Amerigomag]

At $25/lb Parmesan is truly the queen of cheeses.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Once, a friend threw a “shameless pasta party”, which featured a small mountain of spaghetti, wheels of fine Parmesan, and any number of different and elaborate pasta sauces. And plenty of vino to drink.

There were no survivors.

[bruinbirdman]

"A bit cheesy if you ask me ...."

A quick calculation puts the government no bid price at about $10/lb.

yitbos

[SkyDancer]

Pretty cheap ... can’t buy it for that ....

[Polybius]

So all the goverments of the world are buying all the industries of the world.

In this case, the Italian Government is not buying the industry. It's buying the product.

The Italian Government got 3,500,000 kg of very tasty cheese for 50 Million euros and we got smoke and mirrors for 700 Billion dollars.

[bruinbirdman]

"Pretty cheap ... can’t buy it for that ...."

Do they have food stamps in Italy? Here, they give away government cheese, no? I've never qualified. for a gov't freebe, er, taxpayer subsidized handout.

yitbos

[pointsal]

Check out the dude packing the cheese wheel...

Wanna nibble on the cheese rind?????

[BerryDingle]

until now been a staple product found in most Italian households - and as confirmation of the country's obsession with food is Italy's most shoplifted product.

Now that's impressive!

[SkyDancer]

From what I understand most of Europe is Socialized in that there’s some form of handouts ... I asked dad about gov’t cheese handout and he said sometime back they did but it wasn’t fancy cheese but standard yellow stuff - whatever they served in institutions ....

Me, I like that cheese product stuff in a toasted sammich ...

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

True Government Cheese...

[bruinbirdman]

Italy, on average, spends 23% of personal income on food. U.S.A.? 9.3%.

yitbos

[SkyDancer]

Is it because it’s so expensive or do they just eat more???