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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 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pub cheese would like a word.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 22 hours 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 5 points 21 hours ago

Brothel cheese?

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's another: Höhlenkäse (= Cave Cheese)

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours 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 52 points 1 day 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 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in The Tower of BabyBelon

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day 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 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, how is it supposed to be pronounced?

[–] enthusiasticamoeba@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/SInLePq2Ryo

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

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 23 hours ago

Goo-da is almost a pokémon

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Named after the process.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

But not in a cheddar!

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

European cheese villages, unite!

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago

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

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

Maasdam and Gouda (among others) are towns.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Saleh@feddit.org 5 points 23 hours 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 22 hours ago

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

[–] obrenden@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours 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 3 points 18 hours ago

Double-wide cheese.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Queso Casita

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Little House on the Prairie Cheese.

[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Don't look up what that means in Nepali.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

Cottage cheese made in a cottage

Toe cheese ...

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

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

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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 2 points 23 hours 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.

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Better than head cheese. Ewww

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

Better than dick cheese. Ewww.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day 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.