Concept: Cheese - Little miss tuffet

Curds are mentioned in the Middle Irish tale The Vision of Mac Conglinne, the relevant portion of which reads:

Stately, pleasantly it sat,
A compact house and strong.
Then I went in:
The door of it was dry meat,
The threshold was bare bread,
cheese-curds the sides.


Smooth pillars of old cheese,
And sappy bacon props
Alternate ranged;
Fine beams of mellow cream,
White rafters - real curds,
Kept up the house.

Curds also appear in the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on a tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey;

Along came a spider,

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away