A Simi Valley, California, listener writes to ask if any other families use the term shaky cheese for “Parmesan cheese shaken out of a can.” Indeed they do, and other families apply the term scrapey cheese to “cheese scraped over a dish of food.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Shaky Cheese”
Steve Ekron in Simi Valley, California says,
My family has always referred to the containers of grated Parmesan cheese, typically used for topping spaghetti, as shaky cheese.
An example would be me asking my child, do you want some shaky cheese on your noodles?
And he wonders if anybody else uses this term.
As a matter of fact, they do.
That is an incredibly common term for it.
And I think we’ve talked about this on the show, and I mentioned that my family uses scrapey cheese to talk about the block of Parmesan Reggiano that you scrape over your pasta.
And other families apparently do the same thing that we do.
So there’s shaky cheese and scrapey cheese, and these are fairly commonly coined individually by families all across the English-speaking world.
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