For Anyone Who Hates Cottage Cheese

[IrishAyes]

11. It was probably too long ago for me to ever retrieve the memory.

But it might not have taken much. Although I loved all other cheese even as a small kid, I once took a long stretch of refusing to eat any cheese, no matter how much I loved it. In those days parents didn't always think to ask a kid why anything. But I do remember that situation. I'd read a book where some other kids gave a horse a grilled cheese sandwich to eat and it stuck his mouth shut. The story was all about how to correct their mistake. My takeaway? That if I ate a grilled cheese sandwich, the same thing might happen to me. Children's literature can have powerful effect.

Or maybe hating cottage cheese is associated with a person I didn't like but don't remember. I'll never know. But thank goodness, now I'm past the worst of it. The globbiness disappears when heated, I've learned, and sort of like soy the taste appears to disappear in a hot soup or stew which remains mysteriously enhanced.