[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Cheese curd, NOT cottage cheese! You absolutely HAVE TO have high cholesterol and fat content to get the full benefit.

Quebec's gift to ‘culinary’ excess. Invented by a heart specialist to increase his business in the days before socialized medicine in Canada.

(OK, the last sentence is blatantly false, but poutine is most certainly NOT a health food!)

BTW, the bacon goes with the high sugar content maple syrup on the pancakes!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After I said cottage cheese I looked it up and there is allegedly such a thing as cheddar cheese curd, but I have never seen it in all my days of grocery shopping.