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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week 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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better than head cheese. Ewww

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better than dick cheese. Ewww.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's another: Höhlenkäse (= Cave Cheese)

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (13 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

But not in a cheddar!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (10 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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

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