A Sydney man has turned to social media for help after coming in to possession of a wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese.

Ehren Thompson, 25, posted pictures of the wheel to his Facebook account, asking if anyone was interested in trading the wheel for something he could get a bit more use out of.

The wheel weighs about 35kgs, and Mr Thompson says if he had bought it from a Woolworths deli it would have cost $2100. He estimates the wholesale value to be ‘roughly half of that’.

Pictured: The wheel of cheese inside a car Mr Thompson had borrowed to collect the cheese

The environmental scientist was inundated with responses as his post went viral

Mr Thompson told Daily Mail Australia that the only thing you can do in the event of what he calls a 'stupid windfall' is to follow the path that will provide you with the best story

Having no personal need for 35kgs of cheese, he offered members of the Marrickville Buy Sell Trade Facebook group and his friends on the social media network a trade – enough cheese to feed an army in exchange for a car or a laptop.

The Marrickville man insists he procured the cheese legally, though has remained tight lipped online as to where it came from.

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, he said it would ‘ruin the mystique’ to provide all the details, but said he had bought it for an exceptionally low price from a supermarket that was closing down.

‘I offered them a ludicrously low amount of money to let me steal the cheese, but the shopkeeper just put it through the till at my offered price,’ he said.

The Marrickville man insists his 35kg wheel is 'genuine Parmigiano Reggiano cheese'

This isn’t Mr Thompson’s first experience with trading food and beverages for a vehicle. He said he swapped his last car, an old Volvo, for just two cases of beer.

‘I’m a bit p***ed off though, looking back, because I reckon it was worth four cases of beer,’ he said.

Posting on a closed buy/sell/trade group and on his own Facebook page, he received a number of responses, in some case even agreeing to the trade.

Many however, just wanted to share cheese puns.

The environmental scientist was offered a 2001 Holden Barina, a Peugeot 307, and a Ford Focus. One woman even attempted to trade her husband for the huge haul of cheese.

Other suggestions were to raise money for the car by selling tickets to a large scale cheese and wine party.

One poster questioned where Mr Thompson would store 35kgs of cheese if he was unable to trade it.

‘It’s a good question,’ the 25-year-old responded.

‘I’m just hoping I get a car so I don’t have to find an answer to it.’

However, as the post blew up on social media, Mr Thompson’s cousin saw the post and offered him her car for free.

Having now dealt with his transport situation, he will now attempt to trade the cheese for something else, or celebrate his good fortune over cheese with friends.

‘I reckon, when you come into a windfall of something stupid like this, you have to do the thing that will result in the best story,’ he said.

Ehren Thompson, 25, came in to possession of a wheel of cheese and tried to trade it for a car

Mr Thompson was eventually offered a car by his cousin in return for no cheese. He is still unsure what he will do with the 35kg wheel of parmesan