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.
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The Fed also keeps butter and honey. My mother used to come home with government cheese, butter, and honey and let me assure you that you absolutely cannot buy quality like that at your corner market!
Ye Olde Cheese Shoppe will be happy to hear about this.
Detroit got free cheese back in the 80s and they warehoused it and it turned bad. So the federal government sent a bill for the neglected cheese, and the city taxpayers had to pay for the free cheese they didn’t get.
“Sorry we don’t get much call for that around here.”
Red wax hoop cheddar would be great
Processed American you can give to the hogs and dogs
The peanut butter was good too
Aged Gouda or Parmas can last years if uncut...no pun intended
Once open unless frozen...a few months
I buy 9 year old Gouda when I have extra money...nutty and salty
Government cheese is great cheese! We had a worker whose mother got it and he would bring it to work.
Back in the 1960s we often found piles of trash dumped on the side of the roads. There was always an empty “Government Cheese” commodity in the trash.
The fruits of govt meddling in the supply chain. Too much cheese, not enough freedom.
Great question.
Another one is - What does Bleu Cheese decompose into?
And how can you tell?
He looks entirely too happy in that pic.
***... the US taxpayer subsidizes dairy farms. ****
How true! We had a man working at our company making good money whose family also had a dairy farm. He did some figuring and said that if the Government would raise the subsidy on milk one or two more cents he would quit there and go back to dairy farming.
They didn’t so he stayed with the company. That was in the 1980s.
The fruits of govt meddling in the supply chain. Too much cheese, not enough freedom.
It’s an old Barney Miller episode, come to life.
Good, now the government has something to condition Americans to stand in line for since we’re soon going to be just like Venezuela.
Feel The Bernie!!
Don’t know if the Fed still keeps honey, but in the late 80s hobby bee keeping was good and I had plenty to sell at craft sales, etc. It was in the hay days of government commodity give-aways. A few older ladies examined mine and in an aside, one asked the other why the government honey was dark and this was light. I was busy with another customer and did not get a chance to talk to them, but there are two main reasons for honey to be dark.
1. The basic colour and flavor of honey is determined by the source flower. There are many shades and a few dark honeys command high prices, but most are less desirable.
2. The honey is old and has not aged gracefully.
Large honey producers had two options, take your chances sell on the open market or sell to the government at what was likely a lower price. I suspect most producers would sell their less desirable product to the government and try to get a higher price for the easier to sell lighter product.
I think I’ve eaten C-ration cheese that was probably about 10 years old.
Don’t know anything about the current government cheese buying program, but according to this article, government cheese had pretty much disappeared by 2014.
https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/wtf-happened-to-government-cheese
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