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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

First, things like Coca Cola are as much cultural products as they are commercial products, so calling Coca Cola to something done outside of that cultural context is cultural appropriation.

Do you see how silly that argument is?

It's coagulated milk, the only culture is the bacteria. This isn't a family recipe being made in a farmstead by 5 people who personally milk the cows themself. It's a factory. With rows upon rows of cheese produced every day, worth millions of $. Stored in giant warehouses and transported all around the world. It's big business, not culture. Just because they have great marketing doesn't mean they're producing any form of culture.

The same applies to the Scottish whisky trade and Champagne in France. If it's so cultural then locals would be making the stuff, but they're not, it's a large monopolistic business. In the same way the scotch whisky trade is becoming monopolised by the likes of Chivas via Pernod Ricard.

If you genuinely believe that this is cultural appropriation then you should be having a word with the giant corporations that have put so much legislation around these products that it's near impossible for small independent competitors to try their hand at it. If it were truly culture there would be a thriving craft scene like there is with beer.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There is a thriving craft cheese scene. I'll walk down to my local farmers market here in Northern Italy later and there are a handful of stalls selling various cheeses. If that isn't happening wherever you live, it's not bacause of the rules about Parmeggiano labeling.

Perhaps I'll also pick up a bottle of one if the "metodo classico" bubbly sincethe Champagne is way over priced. There is a nice wine-by-the-litre place on the way back.

Nobody needs to be stealing each other's labels.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Various cheeses or various parmigianos?

The discussion isn't about cheese as a concept but about a very specific type that has used legislation to create a protectionist monopoly.

I can walk down to the local whisky shop here in northern Scotland and choose from various whiskies. But it's only an illusion of choice. Despite the romantic marketing and harkening back to the founding origins it's nothing but factory made mass produced goods now. It's big business, not culture. Our ignorance of the ease of manufacture and our love of romanticism is used against us in marketing in order to justify a higher price poifnt. The same applies to Parmigiano (and not Parmeggiano, unless your Italian is of the Texan dialect).

[–] logi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I can walk down to the local whisky shop here in northern Scotland and choose from various whiskies. But it's only an illusion of choice. Despite the romantic marketing and harkening back to the founding origins it's nothing but factory made mass produced goods now.

Is anything stopping you from making your own and selling it at 90% of the price? Other than the decade plus that it takes...

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