[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

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!

[vetvetdoug]

My Grandparents would get commodity cheese, milk, powdered eggs, and horsemeat. Its amazing what a person can do with these products and a few vegetables. The horsemeat was pretty good fried or used like hamburger.