# Is cottage cheese low-brow? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865 "2006-05-31T12:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/41 "2006-06-01T15:49:40Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] It’s a thread about _cottage cheese_. Couldn’t we have a cottage cheese thread without any insults? So, no insults. Against the rules anyway, and stuff. [/QUOTE] What’s wrong with being a lazy bastard? 😃 And, are we still allowed to insult cottage cheese itself? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/42 "2006-06-01T15:56:42Z")
I tried discussing _Ulysses_ with a batch of cottage cheese, but it wanted to watch pro wrestling instead. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/43 "2006-06-01T15:57:13Z")
Any highly processed cheese that comes out of a box or a plastic carton is not really fit for a serious meal. Serious meals call for serious cheeses – handmade artisanal cheeses, preferably made from raw (unpasteurized) milk. If you want a cottage cheese-type cheese, then I would recommend going for some kind of fresh cheese, like fresh mozarella or queso fresco. Yes, they usually are sold in plastic cartons, but they are freshly made and you can often find handmade or locally made ones. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/44 "2006-06-01T15:57:25Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Cottage cheese is what falls out of a dead goat’s rectum the morning after Satan sodomizes it. [/QUOTE] Cite? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/45 "2006-06-01T15:58:02Z")
Well, now. Since the popular vote says that I be wrong on this, I certainly rescind the warning, and with a sincere apology to **Otto**. Now you can all go back to insulting cottage cheese. ('Cause that stuff ain’t nothing but chunky crap.) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/46 "2006-06-01T16:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] Well, now. Since the popular vote says that I be wrong on this, I certainly rescind the warning, and with a sincere apology to **Otto**. Now you can all go back to insulting cottage cheese. ('Cause that stuff ain’t nothing but chunky crap.) [/QUOTE] With that last sentence you have totally redeemed yourself for any 5 lapses in judgement you choose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CairaJade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f04885/32.png) [@CairaJade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairaJade)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/47 "2006-06-01T16:30:01Z")
Cottage cheese on a dinner plate is decidedly diner fare. I love cottage cheese, but it is not a side dish. A great snack, part of lunch maybe, but not a side dish and certainly not for guests. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/48 "2006-06-01T16:31:01Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Borgia] I tried discussing _Ulysses_ with a batch of cottage cheese… [/QUOTE] “Cottage cheese disgusts all but itself.” ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/49 "2006-06-01T16:31:37Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] Cite? 😃 [/QUOTE] **Malleus Maleficarum** , Part II question I, p. 305 “Here Followeth How Witches Injure Cattle in Various Ways” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/50 "2006-06-01T16:55:06Z")
Moderator intervenes: just because a personal insult is funny doesn’t mean it’s appropriate in this forum. I got no problem with “get off your ass,” but “you lazy bastard” is across the line… however humourously it was meant or taken. The next one will be: “Why, you fuckin’ ignormaus, you got less brains than a snail.” Oh, haha, that was obviously a joke. Then, “You’re talking out of your ass.” Yes, of course it was a joke, ho ho. Sorry. There’s a line. Calling another poster a “lazy bastard” is across that line. How many new posters are going to see this and think it’s perfectly OK? Mods get the complaint all the time: so-and-so did it, why can’t I do it? This is NOT a precedent that I want to see set. **Otto** , you owe the boards an apology. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/51 "2006-06-01T17:02:58Z")
It’s already been stated in this thread, but it bears repeating – In a serious meal, cheese is not a side dish; it’s a separate course. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/52 "2006-06-01T17:48:28Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Cottage cheese is what falls out of a dead goat’s rectum the morning after Satan sodomizes it. I won’t even have the stuff in my house, much less feed to to anybody. [/QUOTE] I just bought a quart of curdled satan cum. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/53 "2006-06-01T18:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Cottage cheese is what falls out of a dead goat’s rectum the morning after Satan sodomizes it. [/QUOTE] Close, but not quite. The process for making cottage cheese: Goat dies of putrid bowel infection Satan sodomizes dead goat Substance falls out of goat rectum the next morning Dog with really awful halitosis eats substance Dog vomits up substance, onto a cow patty Substance sits for several weeks in 120-degree heat and mixes with cow patty Vulture eats substance Vulture vomits up substance (probably on someone’s freshly washed car) Voila, cottage cheese ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/54 "2006-06-01T19:04:18Z")
In all seriousness, when I was a kid, my older brother told me that cottage cheese was so-called because it grew in the eavestroughs of little cottages in the deep, damp woods. I believed him. Why not? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/55 "2006-06-01T22:59:52Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Close, but not quite. The process for making cottage cheese: Goat dies of putrid bowel infection Satan sodomizes dead goat Substance falls out of goat rectum the next morning Dog with really awful halitosis eats substance Dog vomits up substance, onto a cow patty Substance sits for several weeks in 120-degree heat and mixes with cow patty Vulture eats substance Vulture vomits up substance (probably on someone’s freshly washed car) Voila, cottage cheese [/QUOTE] Sheesh, and I always thought it was a _complicated_ recipe. And it turns out that all along it was Big Dairy just adding mystique to try to justify their high prices. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/56 "2006-06-01T23:12:39Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] In all seriousness, when I was a kid, my older brother told me that cottage cheese was so-called because it grew in the eavestroughs of little cottages in the deep, damp woods. [/QUOTE] They used to have the vultures vomit in the eavestroughs of cottages. It gave it a leafy, grassy flavor. But modern factory food production being what it is, they just let the vultures out of the cages to fly over the parking lot these days 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/57 "2006-06-01T23:48:48Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] I fucking love cottage cheese. [/QUOTE] I almost fainted when I read this, then realized I was reading the words out of order. 🙂 As to the OP, I would quite possibly vomit if you presented me with cottage cheese. I can’t even look at it; it looks like something that would start oozing out of a leg wound. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/58 "2006-06-02T01:31:43Z")
Cottage cheese as a side dish with _steak_? Does not compute. Who would ever think of doing such a thing? That would be like serving a Pop-Tart with sushi or something. I like cottage cheese. But I can’t imagine eating it for anything but breakfast or a hearty snack. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865/59 "2006-06-02T01:48:17Z")
I had cottage cheese at dinner, along with beans and a burger. De-damned-licious and low-brow as all hell, but I don’t care. It tasted good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-cottage-cheese-low-brow/358865.md?page=2)