G'day Curd Nerds!

March 17, 2020 5:25 PM

Gavin Webber makes cheese. Gavin Webber makes cheese in Australia. Gavin Webber makes Parmigiano Reggiano in Australia. This makes Italians very angry.

"If you’re looking for the angry Italians click the pinned comments replies"

"The more you comment on where the Italians went, the less we are going to see angry italians !!!!! Shut up guys!! We all want to see angry Italians !!"

"The reason you aren't seeing angry italians is because the comments are set to newest. you have to set them to best comments"

posted by Evilspork (13 comments total)

Oh man I literally just saw a tweet about this and assumed it was made up.
posted by saladin at 5:33 PM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Stop revealing my sources!
posted by Evilspork at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

I don't know why "Italians mad at food" is one of my favorite genres of comment, but it is
posted by Countess Elena at 6:17 PM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

Almost as good as that little town in china many years ago that renamed itself to "Usa".

(did not keep that name for long :-)
posted by sammyo at 6:28 PM on March 17, 2020

The video creator doesn't claim to be making "Parmigiano Reggiano"; on the contrary his video says "Parmesan style cheese".

It's sad because the video itself is nice and informative and could have been posted by itself without the unnecessary trolling the OP decided to add.
posted by splitpeasoup at 7:52 PM on March 17, 2020 [4 favorites]

for more in the same family of youtube comments, see Hungarian people big mad about everyone else in the world, including other Hungarians, making gulyás/goulash wrong.
posted by notquitemaryann at 7:55 PM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]

I didn't read the comments. I really enjoyed the meditative quality of the cheese making. This is the thing I needed in these times, so thank you.

#dontreadthecomments
posted by abulafa at 9:49 PM on March 17, 2020 [2 favorites]

There are actually comments from Italians where they praise his cheese-making efforts. I think we can all agree that a guy making cheese and sharing how to make that cheese with everyone is cool, and a lot of his commenters get that.
posted by awfurby at 10:51 PM on March 17, 2020 [3 favorites]

for more in the same family of youtube comments, see Hungarian people big mad about everyone else in the world, including other Hungarians, making gulyás/goulash wrong.

That's entirely different. Nobody minds where in the world you make goulash, as long as you don't go around adding peas and carrots and turnips and so forth. If you want to make a stew flavoured with paprika, go for it! I promise you Hungarians aren't going to be upset. But if you call your confection goulash you will confuse the Hungarians you serve it to and they will wish to ask you many questions in very penetrating voices.
posted by Joe in Australia at 11:41 PM on March 17, 2020 [9 favorites]

"D'you know... if it had, like, ham in it..."
"Oh no!"
"... it's closer to a British Carbonara..."
posted by spoobnooble II: electric bugaboo at 2:01 AM on March 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

Reminds me of the time I saw a $5 bottle of wine in the US labeled "A Hearty California Burgundy." Which is probably the last crime for which one will be legally drawn and quartered in Europe...

The EU system of geographical indications does make sense sometimes (like I should probably not be allowed to sell my toilet hooch as Armagnac), but it's crazy bureaucratic, and it has some ludicrous effects. For example, the Austrian/Bavarian word for spiced tea with rum is "Jagatee" (Hunter's tea). But God help you if you call it that outside of Austria, because Austria called dibs (EC Regulation 110/2008, Annex III, No. 32). Yay! And who cares, call it something else then. But yeah, Europeans do get hilariously territorial about this kind of thing.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 4:54 AM on March 18, 2020 [3 favorites]

"It's sad because the video itself is nice and informative and could have been posted by itself without the unnecessary trolling the OP decided to add."

The interestingness is the primary reason I posted it. The angry Italians (who were angry regardless of whether he properly called it imitation Parmesan/Parmesan style) were the reason it came to the world's attention.
posted by Evilspork at 11:12 AM on March 18, 2020

But if you call your confection goulash you will confuse the Hungarians you serve it to and they will wish to ask you many questions in very penetrating voices.

thank you for making my exact point
posted by notquitemaryann at 1:30 PM on March 18, 2020