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The United States Has Stockpiled a Grotesque Surplus of American Cheese
Slate ^
| May 2, 2016
| Jordan Weissmann
Posted on 05/03/2016 7:06:22 AM PDT by C19fan
The words cheese surplus should be inherently joyfulsort of like birthday cake or birth of your first child. And yet I am having trouble mustering much glee over the news that U.S. cheese inventories have reached a 30-year high of 1.2 billion pounds, because for the past year it seems we've mostly stockpiling a whole bunch of American.
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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cheese; cheesestockpile; cheesesurplus; election2016; moose; newyork; trump
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I remember how the MSM pummeled Reagan when he gave out free cheese from the USDA stockpiles.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:06:22 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Well, after N. Korea attacks I suppose they can call us “cheese-eating surrender monkeys...”
To: C19fan
How long does cheese keep?
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:08:59 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
I’ll take some if they have it to spare. Granny got commodity cheese. I loved it.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:09:43 AM PDT
by
paintriot
To: BenLurkin
Thousands of years if buried in a bog...
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:11:07 AM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: C19fan
Why do they stockpile cheese? What other food stuffs do they stockpile if any? I have heard of government cheese distributions but nothing else. Where are the wine and crackers to go with the cheese.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:11:22 AM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
To: C19fan
This works out to about 7.3 pounds per person of any household which paid any federal income tax last year.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:12:03 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Gubment cheese makes the BEST grilled cheese.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:13:25 AM PDT
by
IC Ken
To: C19fan
“While Kraft Singles certainly have their placenamely, melted on top of a burger, or in a grilled cheese sandwichAmerican cheese is already quite cheap”
Kraft singles aren’t labeled as cheese, and I seriously doubt they are stocked as part of the cheese surplus.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:13:43 AM PDT
by
lacrew
To: CondorFlight
Mmmm! Love me some gov’t cheese!
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:13:46 AM PDT
by
PeteePie
(Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:13:52 AM PDT
by
Daniel Ramsey
(Donald Trump has all the right enemies while Lyin Ted has all the wrong friends!)
To: C19fan
Slate complains about “too much damned cheese” right after publishing that insane article about how identifying your child’s gender is akin to child abuse.
How about “too much Slate” are we ready for that article yet ?
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:14:23 AM PDT
by
Celerity
To: null and void
Maybe we’ll have cheese backed currency after the next collapse?
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:14:38 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:15:32 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: C19fan
To: BenLurkin
That is what I wonder, too.
It would seem far easier to stockpile other foods that provide protein and fats...like peanut butter, for example.
Unopened cheese in my (very) cold refrigerator will eventually get moldy if not consumed, so I certainly do not understand why that would be a "stockpiled" item.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:16:12 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Rurudyne
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:16:54 AM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: lacrew
This is one result of global warming.
To: C19fan
In my early twenties I managed a group home facility for “Developmentally Disabled” (the now impolitic term was “educable mentally retarded”) adults and the agency would occasionally have access to federal surplus foods for the residents. The quality was actually excellent. I particularly remember the American style cheese and peanut butter. In bulk slabs and cardboard gallon tubs respectively and the best I ever tasted.
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posted on
05/03/2016 7:17:14 AM PDT
by
katana
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