{"id":3421,"date":"2012-03-24T13:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2012-03-24T13:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T17:18:49","slug":"loblaws-cracks-parmigiano-reggiano-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/2012\/03\/24\/loblaws-cracks-parmigiano-reggiano-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Loblaws cracks Parmigiano-Reggiano world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/px_cl_loblaws_parm-1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[3421]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3422\" title=\"px_cl_loblaws_parm\" src=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/px_cl_loblaws_parm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/px_cl_loblaws_parm-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/px_cl_loblaws_parm-1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/px_cl_loblaws_parm-1-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At 12 noon today, <a href=\"www.loblaws.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loblaws stores across Ontario<\/a> banded together to break the Guinness World Records title for the most Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels cracked simultaneously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employees in more than 250 stores were specially trained to crack more than 300 wheels at one time. A representative from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parmigianoreggiano.com\/consortium\/default.aspx\">Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Consortium <\/a>was in attendance in Toronto at the Loblaws at Maple Leaf Garden<em>s<\/em> store as the stores attempted the historic endeavour which CheeseLover.ca witnessed at the Pickering store\u2014mainly because we love the smell and taste of freshly cracked DOP Parm.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Nunzio Coppa (left) and Phil Chamberlain displaying their handiwork in Pickering. It took them just over four minutes to crack open the 40-kilogram wheels.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The former record was 176 wheels achieved in 2008. The new record by Loblaws will be tabulated later today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard Italian cheese produced in the region of Parma, Italy, using the same recipe for almost 1,000 years. Parmigiano-Reggiano has been considered for centuries as the &#8220;king of cheese&#8221; with its amazing taste and crystalline texture. It is sold exclusively around the world through the Parmigiano-Reggiano Consortium (or <em>Consorzio<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 12 noon today, Loblaws stores across Ontario banded together to break the Guinness World Records title for the most Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels cracked simultaneously. Employees in more than 250 stores were specially trained to crack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,321],"tags":[],"brand":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loblaws","category-parmigiano-reggiano"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}