As you know, here at The Salt we've been a little obsessed with yogurt lately.
But there's a flip side to the story of the yogurt boom. What about that other product made from fermented milk that had its boom from 1950 to 1975, and has been sliding into obscurity ever since?
Cottage cheese took off as a diet and health food in the 1950s.
It makes a cameo in the show Mad Men, that time capsule of the 1960s, as poor Betty Draper describes her last meal before going to the hospital to give birth: "Toast, cottage cheese, pineapple," she tells her unsympathetic nurse.
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