The Cottage Cheese Song (sing to the tune of Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead): small curd, large curd, medium curd. low fat, non fat, full fat. with pineapple, with hamburger, with wheat germ It's a versatile, hard-working cheese that doesn't put on airs. Once relegated to the "dieter's plate", it has steadily gained widespread acceptance as a dairy treat for people from all walks of life. Brands to watch: Knudsen's, Horizon Organic, Light n' Lively. Bonus quality: comes in highly portable plastic tubs and can be eaten with a spoon or straw (small curd only).
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First of all, isn't cottage cheese just paneer? Second of all, for those of us who were Emily Hall's freshman year roommate, cottage cheese has been forever ruined by her habit of eating, for dinner, only a little tiny salad bowl bar of cottage cheese, seasoned with about a half cup of curry powder, smelling like ass.
Cottage cheese as we know it is different from paneer. But the principle is the same. Time was, cottage cheese was just simple farmer's cheese, but now it is a "product category," and as such it has "customers" who have "expectations". Paneer is also farmer's cheese, but it's also basically Indian tofu, whereas cottage cheese is curds in some unidentifiable goop.