if it’s cheese, it’s real, lol- like “fake boobs are real enough, if i can touch them they’re real” but the whole point of DOC or whatever regional protections Europe puts in place I think are about supporting the economies of the region as much as guaranteeing authenticity… the microchips make sense in that context… if someone can fake a wheel of parmesan and disrupt the supply, it will affect demand for the legitimate product and take a customer away from the region the DOC/DOP was meant to protect in the first place.
Or just ignore me, honestly I don’t have a dog in this race and I’m not even 100% sure I’m right
In this case its literally just the geographical location of the factory that made it. I usually get the Aldi version of things where they just change the name slightly but it is otherwise the same thing.
Shame my local Aldi stopped selling grilling cheese as an alternative to halloumi though, its quite a lot cheaper and avoids having to transport food across Europe unnecessarily. If I wanted high quality I wouldn’t go for genuine halloumi either, there is a somewhat local farm that sells their own halloumi style cheese which legally isn’t halloumi but tastes way better than anything supermarkets sell that can legally be called halloumi.
if it’s cheese, it’s real, lol- like “fake boobs are real enough, if i can touch them they’re real” but the whole point of DOC or whatever regional protections Europe puts in place I think are about supporting the economies of the region as much as guaranteeing authenticity… the microchips make sense in that context… if someone can fake a wheel of parmesan and disrupt the supply, it will affect demand for the legitimate product and take a customer away from the region the DOC/DOP was meant to protect in the first place. Or just ignore me, honestly I don’t have a dog in this race and I’m not even 100% sure I’m right
Fair point, i have a bottle of 25 year old aceto balsamico in the kitchen with a DOP on it and I probably wouldn’t buy one without it.
But at what point does a counterfet become just as good?
In this case its literally just the geographical location of the factory that made it. I usually get the Aldi version of things where they just change the name slightly but it is otherwise the same thing.
Shame my local Aldi stopped selling grilling cheese as an alternative to halloumi though, its quite a lot cheaper and avoids having to transport food across Europe unnecessarily. If I wanted high quality I wouldn’t go for genuine halloumi either, there is a somewhat local farm that sells their own halloumi style cheese which legally isn’t halloumi but tastes way better than anything supermarkets sell that can legally be called halloumi.