I remember the Commodity Program boxes had flour, cheese, peanut butter and canned goods.................
Madison had a huge refrigerated warehouse for those extras. It caught on fire! There was melted butter running in the street. What a mess.
“On May 3, 1991, a fire broke out at Central Storage & Warehouse (CSW) on Cottage Grove Road in Madison after a forklift battery malfunction. The resulting blaze took more than a week to put out completely—thanks in part to plenty of fuel from the insulation around all the cold storage units and all the food, including 20 million pounds of butter.”
https://tonemadison.com/articles/butter-where-butter-shouldnt-be/
Do they still do government cheese? lol