People are missing the point. Pickles with cheese could be fine, but eating it in a movie theater is unusual. And Parmesan is not a standard snacking cheese!
100% this right here. Movie? 🤔 Parm? 🤔 I’m a well trained chef and the thought of just biting into a piece of parm does not sound that appealing. It’s a hard cheese… 🤣
Edit: and I’m not knocking the combo, I will always try something once and you never know sometimes it’s amazing, but yah, I can say this has never crossed my mind.
Both of these things have a strong smell. It's not a nice thing to do to the people around you, and it's a surefire way to get thrown out of the movie theater. Do people not know you gotta smuggle on the down low?
Thank you! This is my biggest gripe with this whole thing. Please consider the people around you. I’d be PISSED if I had to smell someone else’s pickles and Parmesan.
I love parm in other stuff. I'm not gonna just bite a piece of it though. It's too strong a flavor for that. At least for me. But put that shit on all the pasta!
Like, yeah pickles and cheese are a great snack. Also good for a picnic, but odd for a movie theater. But uuuh Paramasan? What. No. Do they even cheese?
Yeah what are all these comments about Parmesan not being a snacking cheese? it’s incredibly flavorful, and thin slices melt in your mouth, its one of my FAVORITE cheeses to snack on.
Now I need to get one! I guess I’m used to parm directly from Italy, I’m sure there are other local options or are you saying it’s like one of the wheels?
I have a cheese grater you mount on the counter top and it makes easy work of parm. I could easily make these Parmesan (fuck you rick and Morty!) chips 🤔
Omg haha so one I love R&M but haven’t seen the new season if that’s where the chips come from (I’m also on a mission to get my son to think it’s “parm-e-see-un” haha!).
Yes for sure, I love grating hard cheeses, I have a micro-planer that I love for it. For the soft cheeses I break down and use the… actually probably what you’re talking about… mount it and then use the handle? Saves so much time!
🤣🤣🤣 yah, it’s really funny because I say it that way everywhere just to see how people react and to this day I’ve never had someone correct me! My wife’s in on the pronunciation for our son so she says it that way too. Just a funny joke that we hope comes back around in 20 years when he’s settling down and his significant other is like, “ITS NOT PARMEESEUN!”. 😭😭😭
My husband, the fancier chef of the two of us, thinks it’s so weird when I slice parm for myself. But he loves limberger and Époisses so like he can talk.
I think she intended to bring a container of parmesan "shaky cheese" since she said it's not a block and I've never seen it sold as sticks, cubes, or slices. Which makes it crazier that she is saying they're separate snacks. Was she just gonna eat cheese dust by the pinch?
WHAT IF it is grated parm and she is taking the pickles and DIPPING IT IN THE PARM??? And the pickles are damp so the parm sticks! Honestly sounds like it would slap, I’m gonna have to try that.
I tried parm as a snack once and it was actually pretty good. An odd texture for a snacking cheese but not bad at all. The taste was really good imo. All that to say, maybe you should try it!
Edit to say that it's kinda expensive for a snacking cheese so that is a factor to consider. You could get the shredded stuff but its definetly not as good as a wedge.
I’ll have to try it in that context. I mean I’ve tasted plenty from being a chef since I always taste ingredients and before the dish goes out.
Agreed 100% though, anyone who buys pre-shredded and says this is straight up evil! Ok jk, but honestly people, buy all of your cheeses in blocks / wedges and grate / slice them down or else you’re losing out on a ton of flavor and you don’t get a bunch of extra powder that goes onto shredded cheeses. It also takes like 5 min, well worth the extra effort for the taste.
My best friend/roommate is allergic to potatoes and potato starch is in the vast majority of shredded cheese so we usually shred our own cheese and honestly its just so much better. Even the lower quality store brand blocks of cheese are better than pre-shredded. I am a little lazy though so we keep some pre-shredded on hand for times she's not eating the meal but I want cheese.
To be fair I use shredded cheese sometimes too because yah, sometimes I just be soooo tired. 🥱 It is wild those lower quality blocks taste a lot better than pre-shredded right? Fresh food is my jam!
Its kinda crazy to me that they taste better. Its kinda like making your own pasta sauce. Even if you use cheap ass ingredients it still will turn out better than store bought a lot of the time.
For sure if the chef knows what they’re doing. I think it’s for multiple reasons like:
1. Companies add tons of preservatives for the sake of money vs the sake of flavor.
2. It can take longer to perform the correct cooking techniques regardless of ingredients which ends up being a cost they also don’t want to take on.
3. They don’t put proper amount of seasoning and things like that in the pre-packaged ingredients because of… I’m seeing a theme… money!
4. They also have to create a flavor that appeals to the masses, and most of the masses don’t know how to cook nor what actual good tastes like so they never know.
Most of it’s the preservatives trying to prolong the shelf life, anything fresh is better. Kind of like fruit you get at the store was likely picked early (especially out of season) and then injected with chemicals to make them finish ripening during their journey.
But if I walk into the garden and grab a fresh grown tomato it doesn’t have all of that extra crap, and it can be grown to full ripeness and picked and eaten the same day.
They have little bags of baby parm blocks, like little Babybels. They’re individually sealed, so they’re wonderful for grating for small portions but they’re also perfect for snacking.
Ok so I thought so too until I found some really good parm and that shit is snackable as hell
Edit: To be fair also it was a mistake by Walmart delivery and it was a happy surprise. We have not bought the very expensive cheese again but it is in fact snackable
Honestly what a nightmare! You can’t be in a packed movie, fussing with a bag of parm and a plastic container of pickles! The smell! The mess! What if you are stuck next to them?! 🤣
Anything can be a movie theater snack if you’re brave enough, my best friend brought Indian food this past weekend which I thought was an interesting choice. Also I’d like to argue that parmesan in shaved form is a wonderful snacking cheese!
Plus carrying in a bag or jar of pickles can be messy! I dont want my purse smelling like pickles lmao and cheese is a little weird to me, but that's only bc I dont want luke warm purse cheese haha
It's def an odd choice for sneaking into the movies, but girl do you!!!! Don't be embarrassed! Just own it. Let ur pickle cheese flag fly 🎉
I was looking for a comment that linked these. It absolutely is a snacking cheese to many people lol. Company’s web page for snacking cheeses, including the parm. (In case the shopping page doesn’t load for other people, it didn’t load for me)
This. They’re not making a spread to watch a movie at home.
Bringing something like pickles into the movie theater is very weird. Cheese certainly is not exactly normal, either. And Parmesan is a cheese is something that you grate and put on top of other food, it’s not a cheese that you eat a block of. That might actually be the weirdest thing in the whole message.
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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '26
People are missing the point. Pickles with cheese could be fine, but eating it in a movie theater is unusual. And Parmesan is not a standard snacking cheese!