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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:52:12 AM EDT
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It wasn't "dignified" enough for the freeloaders - so they just got EBT.
ETA: my grandmother somehow got her hands on some during '05-'07 - by then, it was no longer real cheese, but some Velveeta knockoff. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:53:04 AM EDT
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Does anyone recall to what ever happened to the government cheese program that qualifying people on food assistance received blocks of cheese? If I recall correctly this was a decades old program in which the government would purchase massive quantities of daily products in order to shore up low milk prices - in effect a subsidiary to daily producers. Later on these daily products, primarily cheese were given out as some sort of food assistance to food stamp recipients. My dad has an old wood box packaging for a 2 or 3 pound block of cheese he got from someone in some other junk. I dont recall how old it is, but i previously had no idea thats how it used to be. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:55:04 AM EDT
[#3]
That program is defunct.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:55:19 AM EDT
[#4]
WIC, primarily.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:56:05 AM EDT
[#5]
All I know is that my dad still makes fun of government cheese
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:56:23 AM EDT
[#6]
It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:56:41 AM EDT
[#7]
Why oh yes, memories of the 70's.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:57:04 AM EDT
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I'll take a round of swiss, a round of cheddar, and some American.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:59:34 AM EDT
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Does anyone recall to what ever happened to the government cheese program that qualifying people on food assistance received blocks of cheese? Is government cheese still available? If I recall correctly this was a decades old program in which the government would purchase massive quantities of daily products in order to shore up low milk prices - in effect a subsidiary to daily producers. Later on these daily products, primarily cheese were given out as some sort of food assistance to food stamp recipients. I don't know what happened to the big blocks. However, my family did partake in the program when I was in early elementary school. I recall getting the 'belt' one day for pouring out the oil off the top of the peanut butter that came in a number 10 USDA can instead of stirring it in. I also remember having thick sliced cheese sammiches from the blocks on white bread for dinner. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 12:59:55 AM EDT
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My dad used to bring home a brick when I was a kid. Don't know how he got it, didn't really want to know either. Made good sandwiches and grilled cheese tho.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:00:01 AM EDT
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. Truth right there. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:01:04 AM EDT
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Why oh yes, memories of the 70's. and butter too |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:15:27 AM EDT
[#13]
My grandma used to get it.
Stuff was awesome. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:16:35 AM EDT
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. That's no shit. When I was little my dad used to buy it off our small town mayor (who he got elected as a long-shot joke) when things were distributed more locally, along with canned pork, powdered milk, etc. It was all good stuff, but that was pretty fucked up in retrospect. 
It changed from a nice cheddar type cheese to more velveeta type later on. ETA Forgot about the peanut butter, choosey moms choose GIBs 
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:16:48 AM EDT
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My grandma used to get it. Stuff was awesome. Mine did too, yes it was. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:17:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll take a round of swiss, a round of cheddar, and some American. Government cheese was a mixed cheese of constantly varying content - and a mystery label. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:23:30 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:26:07 AM EDT
[#18]
My mom would buy several blocks at a time from the lady who cleaned our house. This was late 70's and she paid $3 a block for that shit.
It was good though 
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:26:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You got that right, gov cheese was the best cheese. They used to also give out peanut butter, beans, salmon, and powdered milk. I grew up poor and remember mom bringing it home a couple of times. And it was embarrassing , big truck would park somewhere in town and all the poor people would get in line and everyone who drove by could see all the poor folk. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. Holy Shit! They had salmon? I heard that the government also had "powdered milk and assorted chicken parts in bags," but salmon?! |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:26:45 AM EDT
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:29:41 AM EDT
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I knew one family that got government cheese.
But they were Mormon, and had far more of the Bishop's Storehouse brand canned goods. I ate dinner over there several times. Single mom, and about six kids. Deseret brand cans of beans and veg. Here's something y'all will enjoy: President Reagan, Gordon B. Hinckley (I used to deliver his newspaper before he was church president.) and some farmer. 
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:31:25 AM EDT
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That was WIC when I was a kid. The cheese was good, but the giant tin cans of peanut butter were awesome. Can't buy peanut butter that good.
Now they just give you vouchers to use at the store, I hear. Food stamps is what became EBT. The government cheese is gone 
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:49:45 AM EDT
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Holy Shit! They had salmon? I heard that the government also had "powdered milk and assorted chicken parts in bags," but salmon?! Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. Holy Shit! They had salmon? I heard that the government also had "powdered milk and assorted chicken parts in bags," but salmon?! Oh sure, I remember they were blue. Can of damn salmon, head and all (!) And no BS on it making the penultimate grilled cheesey. Nowadays they make some Velveeta BS, if anything at all. Shame. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:58:00 AM EDT
[#24]
I remember the butter and cheese my aunt got. That shit was awesome and the portions were huge.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 1:59:21 AM EDT
[#25]
Nacho cheese, that's nacho cheese.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:13:29 AM EDT
[#26]
too hard to trade for booze, dope, and smokes so the EBT card was born
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:16:55 AM EDT
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My grandma used to get it. Stuff was awesome. Indeed |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:21:17 AM EDT
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From 2008 -
What does Govt. Cheese Taste like? http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=785534 3 pages. 
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:22:22 AM EDT
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That stuff was distributed after several of the big hurricanes in the 70's and early 80's. I remember getting cheese, PB and rice or beans after Frederic in Sept. of 79. Good stuff when the power is out for two weeks and the fish aren't biting.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:24:10 AM EDT
[#30]
A woman my mom used to work with in the 70's gave her blocks.
It was awesome, 5lb. blocks of 100% Wisconsin American cheese. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:31:10 AM EDT
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A woman my mom used to work with in the 70's gave her blocks. It was awesome, 5lb. blocks of 100% Wisconsin American cheese. I remember those. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:32:14 AM EDT
[#32]
Growing up, I can remember eating Govt cheese. It was creamy and tasty.
The single sliced, plastic wrapped "cheese" we see today is c#@%^* in comparison. Aloha, Mark |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 2:34:02 AM EDT
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Soup lines, free loaves of bread Five pound blocks of cheese, bags of groceries Social security, has run out, on you and me We do whatever we can Gotta duck when the shit hits the fan |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 3:53:08 AM EDT
[#34]
Many years ago my Wife and I were cleaning out a rental.
We found many tin cans with a white label that simply said "Meat". As I recall they had "USDA" or something else printed on them. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 3:57:42 AM EDT
[#35]
We just need those prepaid visa cards that someone else suggested which can be used anywhere for anything.
That'll fix everything. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 3:58:53 AM EDT
[#36]
We got it when I was a kid in Milwaukee, although my family was never on food stamps. Made great mac and cheese.
Food stamps should be abolished, and if they're replaced with anything, it should be commodities. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 4:05:48 AM EDT
[#37]
About 20 years ago an Indian lady from a nearby reservation came to our house.
Sold us some government cheese right out of the trunk of her car. Best damn cheese I've ever had in my life. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 4:07:19 AM EDT
[#38]
Back when I read DU there was a thread about how awesome government cheese was, dozens of people about how it was a constant of their upbringing, etc.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 4:09:50 AM EDT
[#39]
That was good cheese I wish they sold it in stores .......
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Posted: 2/7/2016 4:18:54 AM EDT
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I too wish it were still available. I've been told that the closest block cheese as far as taste is Land O Lakes american but I haven't verified it yet.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 5:32:07 AM EDT
[#41]
The cheese was good but them dam food stamps we grow up poor and my mom would send me
to the store with food stamps and every time I would get into a fight with some kid who would start making jokes about people with food stamps, all in all I learned to fight well because of food stamps. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 5:38:11 AM EDT
[#42]
My mom made awesome homemade mac and cheese with that stuff.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 5:52:29 AM EDT
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Mine did too, yes it was. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My grandma used to get it. Stuff was awesome. Mine did too, yes it was. Chesse and butter were better then you could buy locally in Ms. growing up. My grandma would trade a few packs of smokes to some ghetto gobblin every month for theirs. Made the best homemade mac n cheese with it |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 6:02:33 AM EDT
[#44]
The warehouse the gov used burned down.
http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/20_Years_Ago_Today_Central_Storage__Warehouse_Fire_121153104.html Twenty years ago, a massive fire became a part of Madison history. The fire on Madison's East Side was the lead story on NBC15 News May 3rd, 1991. Flames broke out late afternoon at the Central Storage and Warehouse Company on Cottage Grove Road. At one point, about 3,000 residents within a half mile radius were evacuated as the fire threatened chemical tanks. Two days after it started, the fire was declared under control. It became known as the great butter fire. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 6:19:56 AM EDT
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Back when I read DU there was a thread about how awesome government cheese was, dozens of people about how it was a constant of their upbringing, etc. Eh, it was certainly better than what exists now. People on this forum treat it as a novel temporary embarrassment. Other places it's a multi-generational lifestyle. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 6:32:43 AM EDT
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During the Carter years you didn't need to be on stamps or any other program, at least we didnt, just stood in line behind the truck and got your cheese and dam right it was the best cheese i ever ate.
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Posted: 2/7/2016 7:26:12 AM EDT
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MIL owned a liquor store in a small town. Used to take it in trade all the time.
It was very good. We would ask her when she was going to get some more. I don't remember anything except cheese. Recipients called that stuff, meat, cheese, etc the "modesty". They were illiterate. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 7:27:28 AM EDT
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Why oh yes, memories of the 70's. Still in the 90s. My fraternity did civic stuff, and one of the things we did was helping out with distribution for shut ins. We would take prepacks of various stuff to old and handicapped people. The cheese we handed out was big blocks of cheddar. Must have been a lot of constipated old ladies. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 7:29:46 AM EDT
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You got that right, gov cheese was the best cheese. They used to also give out peanut butter, beans, salmon, and powdered milk. I grew up poor and remember mom bringing it home a couple of times. And it was embarrassing , big truck would park somewhere in town and all the poor people would get in line and everyone who drove by could see all the poor folk. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. Interesting how healthy the menu you just described is, especially for a soon to be or young mother. |
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Posted: 2/7/2016 7:29:46 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You got that right, gov cheese was the best cheese. They used to also give out peanut butter, beans, salmon, and powdered milk. I grew up poor and remember mom bringing it home a couple of times. And it was embarrassing , big truck would park somewhere in town and all the poor people would get in line and everyone who drove by could see all the poor folk. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It made the best grilled cheese sandwiches. Doesn't stop the food pantry types who line up now when the mobile food pantries that swing through local villages once a week handing out boxes of commercial junk food.... |
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