Possible Clues:

• Hard Italian cheese, often served grated
• Standard, as men cooked cheese
• Standard plan to include Southern cheese
• Spare man ordered this to go on pasta perhaps
• Dry sharp-flavoured Italian cheese
• Spaghetti sprinkling
• A hard cheese - or dialect - from northern Italy
• Recalls Knock workers consuming starters of soft Anthotyros cheese
• Ingredient used in Italian cooking
• Standard beginning to slip in average cheese