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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Where is the cabin cheese? The fourth-floor-walkup cheese? Give me the fancy mansion cheese. Or skyscraper cheese, ooh la la.

Leave the bathhouse cheese alone, though

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[–] Bags@piefed.social 92 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Pub cheese would like a word.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thanks. this might be it. I was thinking there was some sort of cheese with a name like this but I still feel there is at least one more.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

Sometimes, being able to read feels like a curse.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

There's another: Höhlenkäse (= Cave Cheese)

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] MichaelCMetal@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your mom's got cave cheese

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lmao gotten!

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

This looks like a cheese that went to college and graduated summa cum latte.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't that cheddar? Or whatever the european continent version is? The name of the cheese changes depending on whether they cover the cheese with cheesecloth, burlap, plastic/wax, or bared before leaving it in a cave? https://culturecheesemag.com/recipes/diy/age-appropriate-make-cheese-cave/ or https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337837/The-cheese-cave-Damp-conditions-Welsh-countryside-ideal-place-store-maturing-cheddars.html

If I remember correctly, most of the modern aging processes try to mimic natural caves, since we just don't have enough of the real thing to age all of our cheese.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 61 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What makes you think it's the building naming the cheese and not the cheese naming the building? Why can't we live in roqueforts, in masdaams, in cheddars?

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I live in The Tower of BabyBelon

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bad news about the tower, guys... :-/

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wake me up when they hit the 2nd Tower

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was going to joke that Id prefer to live in a Jarlsberg, but when looking up Jarlsberg to spell it correctly I discovered its named for Jarlsberg Manor, which is (and this is true) a building

The more you know

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You can live in Cheddar. Nice town, good hiking opportunities.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

But not in a cheddar!

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[–] zout@fedia.io 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Saleh@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You know how we say that Mushrooms are the largest organisms on earth, because the Mycelium is interconnecting all through the forest and we only see the fruiting bodies?

Well, most reasonably modern towns have all their buildings connected by the fresh water and sewage pipes and possibly gas-pipes. I'll exclude electricity, because the cables don't really have a volume they enclose.

So you could argue that most towns in Europe are indeed a building.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nice. Is there an europe cheese? ( Not "European", but "europe")

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Cheddar is a village in southern England
...and Maasdam is in the Netherlands

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think it would be easier to list the French cheeses that are NOT named after a place.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

So not even close to Cheddar? Why don't they call it Caputo instead.

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Better than head cheese. Ewww

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Better than dick cheese. Ewww.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There once was a surgeon named Keith, who circumcised men with his teeth. It was not for leisure, or sexual pleasure, but to get to the cheese underneath.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I read some stuff and its not exactly clear why it's called that. it could possibly be how poor people living in the countryside would usually have access to fresh milk from having a cow, and the process to make cottage cheese is less refined, so a city dweller used to fancier cheese would consider the cheap cheese more befitting of someone who lives in a cottage

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

That doesn't make sense. Villagers know perfectly well how to make cheese and the cow is the most expensive part of the process. You add some acid to make the curd, add your starter culture from the sheep stomach, and have that rest for some time in a cool and dark space. After a while start salting it, if you have salt available.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago

I presume you can use a lot of brick cheese to make a cottage cheese

[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“I like cottage cheese. That is why I want to try other dwelling cheeses, too. How about studio apartment cheese? Mobile home cheese?"

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] MichaelCMetal@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say that's definitely double-wide cheese.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 weeks ago

My dumbass brain just thought that's not true, there is "Hüttenkäse" in German... Which is cottage cheese. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Don't look up what that means in Nepali.

[–] netvor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All cheese is made by bacteria who live there, so it's pretty much a building to them!

So I hereby define every cheese by relationship to a building.

(I'm fun at parties.)

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Little House on the Prairie Cheese.

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Cottage cheese made in a cottage

Toe cheese ...

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Most other cheeses are named after regions that had the specific cultures, climate conditions, and artisinal practices necessary to produce that particular cheese. Cottage cheese is just sorta the base cheese that any old peasant can make in their cottage.

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