Posted on 03/12/2014 1:14:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON – Errico Auricchio produced cheese with his family in Italy until he brought his trade to the United States more than 30 years ago. Now, the European Union is saying his cheese isn't authentic enough to carry a European name.
As part of trade talks, the EU wants to ban the use of names like Parmesan, feta and Gorgonzola on cheese made in the United States. The argument is that the American-made cheeses are shadows of the original European varieties and cut into sales and identity of the European cheeses.
Auricchio, president of Wisconsin-based BelGioioso Cheese Inc., says he has no idea what he would call his Parmesan if he had to find a new name.
"I Can't Believe It's Not Parmesan," he jokes.
The Europeans say Parmesan should only come from Parma, Italy, not from Auricchio's plant or those familiar green cylinders that American companies sell. Feta should only be from Greece, they say, even though feta isn't a place. The EU argues it "is so closely connected to Greece as to be identified as an inherently Greek product."
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I come from a Greek family. I have been eating feta since I could swallow solid food. The best feta I ever had came from Bulgaria.
Lets see we should stop them from using all American invented items then. Put Europe back in the Middle Ages where they came from and seemingly long to be again.
This won’t go over well in Monterey, Jack!
Looks like he is still looking to ET.
“Tell me, have you in fact got any cheese at all?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Really?”
“No, not really.”
“No?”
“Not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time.”
“Well, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to shoot you.”
I think I have a head cheese and so does my doctor. He said, “Colby in the morning.”
Molon labe Euries!
Well if that’s the case then all wines made in France should be labelled Napa Vally. Because that’s where the vines that were transplanted in the 1970’s came from when the was a vine blight came from.
Ah, the f’in French and their “culture”. If an Italian guy with years of experience making cheese isn’t “European” enough, who is? This is just the latest attempt by the French anti-free traders to stifle competition.
Gouda for you!
That’s Nacho Cheese!...
Wait until they see what the Yanks are doing to beer.
As the Eurythmics say, sweet dreams are made of cheese.
Don’t be such a goat please.
I’ll be a Gorgonzola..................
Next on the list to be banned by the EU are wieners, spaghetti, pizza and nom de plume.
The US needs to retaliate by banning the words computer, sex and okay in Europe.
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