Parmesan cheese fraud

In the US, tests show products described as "100 percent Parmesan" cheese routinely have cut-rate substitutes — like wood pulp, and cheaper cheeses such as cheddar, Swiss, and mozzarella.

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Don't know what it's like in the UK but I've been saying for years that expensive Parmesan cheese had no taste whatsoever. I think we've been had.

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I buy Parmesan from Waitrose and it is fine

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Hi Toots
I was watching a program a while ago now and it was talking of cheese being subsituted with fake cheese ....made from some awful gunky stuff...it showed how many pizzas "cheese" toppings were made from this fake cheese flavoured muck!!!
Be careful what youre eating people!!!

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I would be more worried about the ready grated stuff they use in takeaway restaurants, there could be anything in that . I buy it in a piece.

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Yes Meg it was being found in ready made meals more rather than in the blocks you can buy