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Cooking & Baking

spinbaby

(15,291 posts) Thu Jun 19, 2025, 01:54 PM Jun 19

A cottage cheese shortage, apparently [View all]

After being annoyed at not finding cottage cheese in two different stores, I googled and discovered that there’s a shortage because of something viral on TikTok. Sigh. We live in the dumbest timeline.

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A cottage cheese shortage, apparently [View all] spinbaby Jun 19 OP

Apparently there has been new interest in making all sorts of recipes using cottage cheese to add protein Diamond_Dog Jun 19 #1

I've not been able to get fresh guacamole and someone here on DU suggested it might be a problem with containers SheltieLover Jun 19 #2

Aldi had been altered last time I went through bucolic_frolic Jun 19 #6

Oh hell no!!! SheltieLover Jun 19 #7

Well, hedge ur bets, it's only 1 store, and oils could be the windup of last year's harvest bucolic_frolic Jun 19 #10

Hoping they are just shuffling stock. SheltieLover Jun 19 #12

It's going to be that way going forward. bucolic_frolic Jun 19 #3

Something like the avocado craze? Now we have the Polly Hennessey Jun 19 #4

TikTok Created A Cottage Industry With This Viral Recipe Trend.....nt global1 Jun 19 #5

NO! No no no no no. nt Bobstandard Jun 19 #9

I tried one and never again KT2000 Jun 19 #11

Not my fault! Jilly_in_VA Jun 19 #8

Blechh, anyway. chowmama Jun 19 #13