They couldn’t get him Fromunda. Was not so Gouda.
(Sometimes their death is our…) (RIP, sir.)
A beloved cheesemaker in northern Italy died Sunday night, crushed under thousands of wheels of his own product. Authorities say a shelf broke while 74-year-old Giacomo Chiapparini was in a cheese warehouse in the Lombardy region, starting a domino effect that caused around 25,000 wheels of hard cheese, each weighing 84 pounds, to fall to the ground, the BBC reports. Chiapparini was a renowned producer of the Parmesan-like Grana Padano cheese. The cheese was stored on shelves up to 33 feet high, and nearby residents said the collapse sounded like thunder.
Around 20 firefighters from surrounding communities spent the night searching for Chiapparini, moving wheels of cheese by hand. His body was found Monday morning. Chiapparini’s family firm has been making Grana Padano since 2006, and his business was one of the largest in the area, the Telegraph reports. “Poor Giacomo was so unlucky,” said Stefano Berni, director general of the Grana Padano Consortium of producers. “It was a tragic fatality,” Berni said, adding that he can’t remember any similar accidents, not even during the strong earthquake that hit the region in 2012.
THAT’S EMBARRASSING
Say Cheeeeeesssssseee
Did the first responders have to cut the cheese to remove him?
Wheel
Of
Misfortune
Go ahead and make all the SHARP comments you want, but it still makes me BLEU!
Blessed are the cheese makers.
Can’t argue with feta, when it’s your time, it’s your time.
He did not have a grate day.
Hoping his suffering was brie-f.
News accounts said he’s from Romano di Lombardia?
I thought he was from Aggio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbvrOmirQg
A Fistful of Dollars
We should all hav-a-harti when thinking about this poor man’s unfortunate demise.
But, I will say: What a Great Way To Go!
And his last words were: Asiago.
Blessed brie his memory.
His body was buried in de brie.
His whole family is in mizethera.
Baby,,, you pour the wine,,, I’ll cut the cheese.
Shouldn’t have drank that queso Peroni before work.
74 years old. At least he was well aged.
Join us as we bid him fondue.
The story makes me queso.
Nobody else has ever died from a cheese avalanche. The story has more holes than Swiss…you know.
Rest assured, he is in a far, far cheddar place now. Rest in cheese!
Was there any mention of a Laughing Cow?
It ain’t easy being cheesy.
So it wuz in the Lombardy region?
I guess he wuzn’t invincable after all…
I worked with a guy named Giacomo in Italy years ago.
A curious fellow, I was a bad influence upon him.
Anyway, one year later, a horse with that name was running in The Preakness or Belmont, I forget.
I put him in a trifecta with two other horses and won 1700 bucks.
The wheels on the cheese go round and round, can’t think of a cheesier way to die….
You know, I am appalled by the callousness of all of these comments. Cheez Whiz.
^^^ It’s easier to ask forgiveness than to get Parmesan.
You all need to have a… Havarti.
For some reason I have this image in my head of an old Three Stooges short where a shelf of bowling balls drop, one at a time, on this guy’s head.
I hope St. Peter gives him parmesan to enter the Pearly Gates.
@Erik
Thanks for that…Good Old Clint. He was in the best westerns and crime dramas ever filmed. There are too many to list.
Maybe he was a Cracker…