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Dave Wilton

09 Jul 2026 • 3 min read

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cottage cheese

8 July 2026 Cottage cheese is a very soft and mild cheese made from skimmed milk by adding an acid, such as vinegar or lemon juice, to the milk, causing the curds to separate from the whey. It is not aged. It has a high protein-to-fat ratio and

08 Jul 2026 2 min read

buttload / butt ugly

6 July 2026 Buttload is a slang term meaning a great quantity of something. It’s a relatively recent term; it starts to appear in the late 1980s. The -load is self-explanatory, But why butt? The butt comes from a slang use of that word as an intensifier. University

06 Jul 2026 2 min read

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