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A Cheese Glut Is Overtaking America
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 17, 2016 | KELSEY GEE in Chicago and JULIE WERNAU

Posted on 05/17/2016 5:27:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 05/17/2016 7:24:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Rise in production comes just as exports are hit by strong dollar; can you eat three pounds more?

America has built up a glut of cheese so big that every person in the country would need to eat an extra 3 pounds this year to work it off.


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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: cheese; moose; sister
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1 posted on 05/17/2016 5:27:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 05/17/2016 5:30:08 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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I remember back in the late 70’s the government having a similar expensive cheese surplus.

The USDA or whoever would drop off 10 lb blocks of American cheese at my grandparent’s senior apt. complex for anyone who wanted it. They would take a few blocks (hey it was free government cheese!) and give it to our family. It was good stuff.

Can’t imagine it helped cheese makers in the end, because it simply substituted cheese we would have bought elsewhere, and given the amounts, probably other foods we would have bought as well.


3 posted on 05/17/2016 5:31:43 PM PDT by PGR88
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A spectre is haunting America — the spectre of cheese.


4 posted on 05/17/2016 5:32:01 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Nation States seem to be ending. The follow-on should not be Globalism, but Localism.)
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Ahhh..I love feel good stories...


5 posted on 05/17/2016 5:32:12 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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why is it that Tillamook cheese still costs $4.99 for a 2# loaf ON SALE when I used to be able to buy it for $2.99 on sale?.......


6 posted on 05/17/2016 5:34:06 PM PDT by cherry
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Send some over to this guy.


7 posted on 05/17/2016 5:34:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Any pizza with cheese on it other than mozzarella is a fraud. (’


8 posted on 05/17/2016 5:34:29 PM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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“I remember back in the late 70’s”

The “Fondue Era”.


9 posted on 05/17/2016 5:36:59 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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can you eat three pounds more?

In a month you pikers! God Bless America.
10 posted on 05/17/2016 5:39:03 PM PDT by Vision (Best music ever: www.MartiniInTheMorning.com)
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Meh, white pizza usually has other kinds of cheeses and it’s just as much a traditional pizza as any.


11 posted on 05/17/2016 5:43:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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12 posted on 05/17/2016 5:43:20 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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How about “Mozzarella Di Buffali”? (aka buffalo mozzarella)?

CC


13 posted on 05/17/2016 5:44:57 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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a little fermented curd will do the trick!


14 posted on 05/17/2016 5:45:31 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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Back before 1970 anyone eating government cheese was on government welfare and taking “commodities” because they could not “make it” in the real world.

Any trash pile on the side of the road (trash dumps closed) had lots of empty government cheese containers.
There was so much cheese that the recipients often gave lots of it away or to get beer money.
It really was good cheese!

15 posted on 05/17/2016 5:45:32 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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“America has built up a glut of cheese so big that every person in the country would need to eat an extra 3 pounds this year to work it off.”

Awesome!


16 posted on 05/17/2016 5:45:34 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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https://youtu.be/C7rzSslub6U


17 posted on 05/17/2016 5:45:43 PM PDT by dhs12345
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“I want to buy some CHEESE!”


18 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I’ll do my part! Bring it on!


19 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:22 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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Why is it that Ford Mustangs cost over $20k when I used to be able to buy one for $2,368 NOT on sale.


20 posted on 05/17/2016 5:46:23 PM PDT by TexasGator
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