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As always, if the consumer wouldn't vote for (buy) inferior quality, it wouldn't make it in the market place. Does anybody really think Target powdered Parmesan is actual cheese? First off it has to be "Parmigiano" in most cases to be the real deal. Worse, do most consumers even care?

GIve me mah soybean and cellulose cheese product!

First the olive oil, now the Parmesan Cheese

If you can't sell wood as Parmesan cheese, liberty has no meaning.
Vote for Hillary so you can keep your corrupted government agencies.

grate your own.
Unless you buy Parmigiana cheese and grate it your self. You may as well be buying the stuff in a cardboard can on the shelf.
Besides shaved is where it's at.

Quigley says

GIve me mah soybean and cellulose cheese product!

Yes exactly, that's why I cringe when people who are in the food industry calls their concoction "Product".
If he can't call them Ice Creme sandwiches, what in the hell does he want me to do with them?

Target sells food? People buy food at Target? WTF?

thunderlips11 says

Always Save Grated Parmesan Cheese and Best Choice 100% Grated Parmesan

Target does carry some good products, but have to be much more selective than I am at whole foods, which also sells their fair share of junk.

For what it's worth, I'm not even remotely familiar with the brands mentioned above. I always eat cheese at whole foods when it is placed out for customers and only occasionally buy it...almost like a hobby. All parmigiano cheese sold there, as far as I could tell is real cheese.

I haven't used a kraft parmesan since I was in my early 20s. There is really no comparison, taste and texture wise, between that canned processed crap and real parmigiano.

Here in Atlanta, the artisanal pizza makers, like Antico or Varuni Napoli (owned by real Italians from Naples in both instances) use real and freshly grated parmigiano. Most Jersey Pizza shops serve up processed crap. With most pizza joints in Jersey, it's a race to the bottom in terms of trying to buy the cheapest ingredients and have the highest markup. The concept of improving quality and passing the cost on to the consumer isn't in the vocabulary of most of the pizza shops, for some reason.

Is toe cheese considered real if your wearing a prosthetic?

thunderlips11 says

nstead, there was a mixture of Swiss, mozzarella, white cheddar and cellulose

Mmmmm, cellulose.

thunderlips11 says

According to the FDA’s report on Castle, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, “no parmesan cheese was used to manufacture” the Market Pantry brand 100% grated Parmesan Cheese, sold at Target Corp. stores, and Always Save Grated Parmesan Cheese and Best Choice 100% Grated Parmesan Cheese, sold by Associated Wholesale Grocers Inc., which along with its subsidiaries supplies 3,400 retail stores in 30 states. Instead, there was a mixture of Swiss, mozzarella, white cheddar and cellulose, according to the FDA.

As an Italian, I find that offensive.

thunderlips11 says

Cheese makers commit adulteration because it saves money.

And if they are willing to risk getting caught selling fake "100% Parmesan Cheese" and suffering terrible loss of reputation in order to save a few pennies, then why would they hire men if by hiring women they saved 30% of their labor costs? Labor is the most expensive part of almost any product or service.

#ParmesanCheeseMatters

I can't believe people go for groceries at anywhere not named ALDI

Top shelf quality at half the price of all the other shitholes

http://www.businessinsider.com/aldi-is-fixing-is-biggest-weakness-and-that-should-terrify-whole-foods-2016-1

Which items do you find ALDI not to be the cheapest option?

errc says

I can't believe people go for groceries at anywhere not named ALDI

Top shelf quality at half the price of all the other shitholes

I love Aldi, but now I have to question their Parmesan Cheese. I'll probably switch to Kraft.

anonymous says

That varies on a monthly basis due to whatever is on sale that we need/want. Again, cheapest is great but not a good value, if you end up tossing something that does not get used. Each of the stores including ALDI are part of the monthly shopping that has to fit into our budget.

I love Aldi, but their cereal sucks, and the produce is not the freshest (meaning it's OK if you eat it right away). Everything else there that I have tried has been good.

Produce should spoil rather quickly, it's natural for real food to decompose

The stuff that looks pretty at the grocer, and keeps forever, is bland and kinda scary.

errc says

Produce should spoil rather quickly, it's natural for real food to decompose

Produce spoils quicker when you buy it Aldi.

Recommend me some good South NJ pizza. I'm thinking of stopping at Walt's Primo in Egg Harbor Township on my way to the Trop...That is, unless it's really no different from the one in Bally's.

Do you cross over the Delaware Memorial bridge, and then take 42?

Theres not a lot of good options for pizza down that way,,,,,

There are some good Amish Farmers markets on the way, Mullica Hills and Bridgeton. Or even Williamstown? On the old blackhorse pike

Just hold out for A.C and stop in the White House. Smash a good luck sub

I cross the bridge and take 40 the whole way until i get to Hamilton Mall (~ Mays Landing), then I get on the AC expressway.

What's the draw to still make that long drive when you can just walk down to the horseshoe?

errc says

What's the draw to still make that long drive when you can just walk down to the horseshoe?

I literally can walk to Horseshoe Baltimore! Wouldn't want to do it after dark though. Anyway, I go to AC for the who vacation experience, boardwalk / beach (although I won't be going to the beach in February) / hotel room sex / etc. Just got kind of sick of the Mountain/Jim Beam bar at Bally's and wanted to go to Adam GoodSports Bar instead, and The Trop was running a special. Might not even gamble. Often I don't even do that, but if I were I like the older slot machines in AC better anyway since I'm really not a gambler and the penny machines at newer casinos require a minimum bet of 30 cents. In AC I can bet one penny per spin if I want to. I also prefer 3 reel mechanical machines with a pull. Also, there is no adult entertainment in Baltimore Horseshoe like there is in AC. I'm referring to Burlesque or strip joints. I miss the one at Bally's.

Well for chrissakes if it's for a getaway, step your game up a lil bit and stay on the Marina. Borgata and the Golden Nugget are so much nicer

errc says

Well for chrissakes if it's for a getaway, step your game up a lil bit and stay on the Marina. Borgata and the Golden Nugget are so much nicer

I might try those someday, especially the Borg. For the most part, I don't see the point in going unless I can walk along the boardwalk at will. No free ranging felines in the Marina District. Last time I stayed at the Trop was in 2010, and it seems nicer now. That was also my first visit to AC. Want to stay at Resorts and the Taj this year as well, since I have never stayed at either. Stayed in Bally's Tower and Garden tower last August

Ironman says

We usually start at the Trop and then wander down the boardwalk from there.

Don't you mean up the boardwalk?

Ironman says

Isn't the boardwalk flat... I never noticed any hills?

Up meaning north towards the Taj.

Ironman says

What's the matter, you don't like walking south and visiting the slums?

Correct. I can visit slums all I want in downtown Baltimore, and I won't be doing that on foot.