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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 95 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pub cheese would like a word.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 1 month 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 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, being able to read feels like a curse.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's another: Höhlenkäse (= Cave Cheese)

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] MichaelCMetal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your mom's got cave cheese

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 64 points 1 month 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 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I live in The Tower of BabyBelon

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

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

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

Wake me up when they hit the 2nd Tower

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Or Gouda. For extra fun while you're there, pronounce Gouda the way it's typically said in English and watch the Dutchies flinch as little parts of their soul leave their bodies.

[–] baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

if you do it you legally have to buy one cheese wheel at the cheese auction there

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait, how is it supposed to be pronounced?

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

GHOW-da is about the closest English approximation. The G sound is quite different in Dutch though.

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[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

Here is how the Dutch say Gouda, with Van Gogh thrown in as a bonus.

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[–] zout@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

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

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

Better than head cheese. Ewww

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

Better than dick cheese. Ewww.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month 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?"

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

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

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

Don't look up what that means in Nepali.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] netvor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Cottage cheese made in a cottage

Toe cheese ...

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

Little House on the Prairie Cheese.

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
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