Well, after N. Korea attacks I suppose they can call us “cheese-eating surrender monkeys...”
How long does cheese keep?
I’ll take some if they have it to spare. Granny got commodity cheese. I loved it.
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.
This works out to about 7.3 pounds per person of any household which paid any federal income tax last year.
Gubment cheese makes the BEST grilled cheese.
“While Kraft Singles certainly have their place—namely, melted on top of a burger, or in a grilled cheese sandwich—American 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.
Mix it with bacon!
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 ?
Mer’ca!
My dogs love the stuff.
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.
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.
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.
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.