Cottage cheese is Americn and safe. Ricotta cheese is foreign and unknown and during the 60s and 70s, unavailable in areas without Italian Americans.
A group of co-worker were discussing the foods of our childhoods, and one of the women said her grandmother was so upset that the suburban grocery didn’t carry the cheeses she needed so she called up to harangue him. Turned out, the cheeses she was looking for were ricotta and chunk reggiano. Never heard of them in the burbs in the 70s! Although, according to the coworker, they started carrying them within months.
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