What’s wrong with being a lazy bastard? 
And, are we still allowed to insult cottage cheese itself?
I tried discussing Ulysses with a batch of cottage cheese, but it wanted to watch pro wrestling instead.
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.
Cite?
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.)
With that last sentence you have totally redeemed yourself for any 5 lapses in judgement you choose.
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.
“Cottage cheese disgusts all but itself.”
Malleus Maleficarum, Part II question I, p. 305 “Here Followeth How Witches Injure Cattle in Various Ways”
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.
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.
I just bought a quart of curdled satan cum. Yum!
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.