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the liquid byproduct cheese spits out, now flexing harder than the cheese ever did
means The watery liquid left behind when milk curdles and the solid curds are strained off in cheesemaking, now prized as a protein source.
from An old Germanic dairy word, descending from Old English 'hwǣg,' a relative of Dutch 'wei' — the kind of plain, ancient farmstead term that's been spoken over churns and curds for well over a thousand years. Famously, it's what Little Miss Muffet was eating on her tuffet alongside her curds.
- Cheese leftover
- It's the watery part drained off curds
- Once trash
- Dairies dumped it as waste for centuries
- Protein king
- Now a multibillion-dollar muscle supplement
- Little Miss Muffet
- The nursery rhyme snack was curds and whey
- Fast absorber
- Digests quicker than most other proteins
ricotta production — byproduct of cheese-making that creates a second cheese from whey proteins, used in italian cooking for centuries
whey protein isolate — sports nutrition product, ~90% protein by weight, dominant in gym supplements since the 1990s
little miss muffet — english nursery rhyme character eating curds and whey, first recorded in 1744