Little Miss Muffet...

"Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet eating her curds and whey..." The cheesemaking process begins when the solids in milk begin to separate from the whey. The more whey a cheesemaker drains from the curds the drier the cheese will be. Cottage cheese is an example of a cheese that still contains a good deal of whey. Parmesan cheese, on the other hand, contains very little whey. Miss Muffet was likely eating a watery form of cottage cheese.