Posted on 05/03/2016 7:06:22 AM PDT by C19fan
The words “cheese surplus” should be inherently joyful—sort 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
We can put Fred Sanford's picture on the ten dollar slice.
I forgot where I read this but, the US taxpayer subsidizes dairy farms. The US taxpayers promote drinking low fat milk on thier behalf. The milk fats are removed to make cheese. In order to keep cheese producers (Kraft) happy, the US taxpayers buy and store the cheese.
It’s also why stores have entire cheese aisles.
The stuff I remember from the 1970’s ? You could use it for building material. . .
At least it would be backed by something.
Some years ago I visited a county office building (eastern NC) and noticed the long line of folks on the front lawn. I asked an official what was going on. He said, “It’s free cheese day.” I believe it was the first Tuesday of every month the County gave out free cheese from the surplus. This was likely during the Reagan administration as you indicated, i.e,. somebody figured out something practical/useful to do with government surplus and waste.
Best cheese ever! My cousin’s daughter is half indian and she can get the cheese. Had some when I was there last June. Had forgotten how darn good it is. We used to eat it by the chunks when we were little.
Reserved for the Obamaphone crowd most likely....
I was think I g about the same joke except in my version the black guy had bought it and dropped it, it rolled down the hill and the Hispanic guy thought Jesus had sent it.
When I was in grade school the schools received a lot of the stockpiled cheese and peanut butter. We ate a lot of cheese and peanut butter items. Soooooo good. But that’s when we still had lunch ladies who actually came in at 5 am every day to cook everything from scratch.
We should stop giving dollars as foreign aid and just distribute surplus velveta.
Calling American cheese cheese is a Käse of mistaken identity.
However it would be good to build a pipeline from gov’t warehouses to some of the needier parts of the country, say Baltimore. The Cheesetone pipeline, yeah, that’s it.
This is a good idea.
But it needs to be combined with Fred Sanford’s fact on the $10 cheese block.
At least till the bankers came up with fiat cheese.
D’oh!
“face”, not “fact”
Rats like cheese.
I remember gov’t cheese being given out in the 1970’s also, well before Reagan.
In Fed.gov’s efforts to get rid of it, they would drop a load of 10 lb bricks at my grandparent’s apartment complex. No one at the place could eat that much, so my dad would wind up bringing home with 3-4 bricks at a time for our family. I loved the stuff!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.