Nah. It's all Parmesan cheese all the way to the central bank. The whole Italian economy is based on Parmesan.

I wish it was as the title suggests. I have a deep love of parmesan. I'd love to think it was a viable currency.

you could say that Italian banks deal in cheese and FIAT?

Fuck you and your big Parmesan cheese propaganda.

We all know that it's shady long big parm bets propping up the entire Italian economy, and shame on you for trying to mislead small wheel investors.

If anything this just proves that my puts on cheese whiz are the correct investment vehicle for the time being.

Go long on aerosolized cheese bitches.

That's what big cheese wants you to believe.

Collateral

honestly this was closer to the headline than I thought it would be. It is kinda neat.

You know what we call an establishment for the storage and lending of valuables and credit? A bank. It's an actual bank.

Americans producing parmesan is like me printing euros. It doesn't cause inflation because it doesn't count lol

(not saying Americans can't make cheese, I hold no opinion there - parmigiano reggiano can only be made in a specific part of Italy, otherwise it's just sparkling hard cheese)

Honestly storing cheese in space makes more sense than putting data centers in space

Only after announcing the cheese will be on Mars next year. Every year

The moon isn't made of cheese ... yet!

I want quicker access to cheese than space.

Then what would Italy be known for without it's cheese?

A single round of Parmagiano is $2000.

Oh good reference! And now for sport with Alan Partridge.

Woah woah woah, don't you dare accuse the Italians of making liquid cheese, that's definitely American

Tricky to leverage

Billions.

you assume they won't just pay to have the cheese experts come work at their Swedish silo's making cheese only for them, in environmentally regulated conditions...

prerequisite for being a billionaire is not caring at all about other people.

The thing about building a system that isn't usually required is that you gonna have to spend the time finding people to do it, then wait for them to import the required hardware because there's usually no ready stock available, and then have to spend time to install. This is why china able to adapt so fast when the heatwave come while europe suffer, it's because china is one of the country that make and sell AC unit.

They totally can build a climate control system and cool down their cheese, but it takes time.

this is true across a wide variety of products deemed "cultural exports" by the eu and is a portion of their soft power throughout the globe

The names Parmigiano Reggiano and Parmesan are protected designations of origin (PDO) for cheeses produced in these provinces under Italian and European law.[1] Outside the EU, the name Parmesan is legally used for imitations, with only the full Italian name unambiguously referring to PDO Parmigiano Reggiano.[2] A 2021 press release by the Italian farmer-rancher association Coldiretti reported that, in the United States, 90% of "Italian sounding" cheese sold as parmesan, mozzarella, grana, and gorgonzola was produced domestically.

(legally, not like drug cartels or anything lol)

I don’t believe you…..

They may have gone legit, though. (Although… there is that island that makes the cheese with the jumping maggots… that’s technically illegal.)