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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:26:59 PM EDT
[#1]
I never had it, we had MRE's once from local foodbank, this was around 1990 or so.
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:29:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOh God, they have it in jalapeno too 
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:33:19 PM EDT
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I ate lots of that stuff back in the 60s and early 70s. Commodities they call them then. Lots of rice and bulgur. I personally liked the canned beef and chicken. The vegetarian types didn’t eat it and they gave it to us. Hell it was food.We mostly killed what we ate and that was a good supplement.
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:34:18 PM EDT
[#4]
I prefer the triple cream cave aged cheddar.
It came in a cardboard box, but had a Land O Lakes wrapper. |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:35:01 PM EDT
[#5]
That nacho cheese
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:36:50 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's the real stuff right there! Is it fortified with soy? |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:51:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've eaten it. I remember it making pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. My grandparents used to get it. Tasty and I used to see how thin I could slice it with a cheese slicer. |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 5:52:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Well that’s a blast from the past. Now I’m traumatized remembering JC Penney plain pocket jeans and no name K Mart shoes. If you weren't wearing Toughskins(TM), I don't want to hear how bad you had it. |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:00:11 PM EDT
[#9]
It made excellent cheeseburgers |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:09:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The government is still storing it. Wish they'd give it away again. They were going to throw it all away. It's going to be the next round of stimulus for the US, while the cash goes overseas. |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:10:42 PM EDT
[#11]
Best grilled cheese, add a scrambled egg to kick it up a notch.
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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:14:32 PM EDT
[#12]
Remember my grandmother getting some for free in the 80's.
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Posted: 2/25/2021 6:18:43 PM EDT
[#13]
Great stuff.
The Kraft factory (long gone) in Pinconning Michigan was one of the producers of it. |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 7:22:02 PM EDT
[#14]
WHERE IS MINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 2/25/2021 7:38:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've eaten it. I remember it making pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. same |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:31:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll give you $20 for that box right now! |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:34:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was 1981. Reagan gave away 30,000,000 pounds of the stuff. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: All I remember of the cheese giveaways of the '70s was the joke that ended with "Nacho cheese!!! Nacho cheese!!!" It was 1981. Reagan gave away 30,000,000 pounds of the stuff. Ok, 1981.  |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:39:47 PM EDT
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They always shipped to much to my community. My mom would volunteer at the distribution and afterwards the volunteers would get "paid" in food. Best damn cheese sandwich cheese ever. Kind of like free beer is the best beer. I don't recall ever getting any of the other commodities. My wife recalls the peanut butter and peanuts more. She grew up in a different state - so they got more Carter stuff I guess.
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:40:37 PM EDT
[#19]
Velveeta?...
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:42:24 PM EDT
[#20]
At least it is actual cheese and not "Pasteurized Cheese Product" (AKA 'American Cheese). |
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Posted: 2/25/2021 10:50:01 PM EDT
[#21]
My grandma used to get that in the early to mid 80's.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:24:57 AM EDT
[#22]
My grandmother loved that stuff. I ate it whenever I visited her.
She called it "government butt-plug". |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:27:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:32:32 AM EDT
[#24]
Anyone know where you can get it nowadays?
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:39:07 AM EDT
[#25]
get that out on a tray...
NICE |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:43:57 AM EDT
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The Rainmakers did this song.
 Failed To Load Title Give a man a free house and he'll bust out the windows Put his family on food stamps, now he's a big spender no food on the table and the bills ain't paid 'Cause he spent it on cigarettes and P.G.A. They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please They're feeding our people that Government Cheese Give a man a free lunch and he'll figure out a way To steal more than he can eat 'cause he doesn't have to pay Give a woman free kids and you'll find them in the dirt Learning how to carry on the family line of work It's the man in the White House, the man under the steeple Passing out drugs to the American people I don't believe in anything, nothing is free They're feeding our people the Government Cheese Decline and fall, fall down baby Decline and fall, said fall way down now Decline and fall, fall down little mama Decline and fall, decline and fall Give a man a free ticket on a dead end ride And he'll climb in the back even though nobody's driving Too ******* lazy to crawl out of the wreck And he'll rot there while he waits for the welfare check Going to hell in a handbag, can't you see I ain't gonna eat no Government Cheese |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 1:58:17 AM EDT
[#27]
My mom used to get that cheese from the senior citizen center, she doesn't eat cheese, so she gave it to me. They make great grilled cheese sandwiches. Really good quality cheese.
I buy a small blocks of that stuff at my local super, and costs $2. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:02:18 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you weren't wearing Toughskins(TM), I don't want to hear how bad you had it. Until I was in high school, I was wearing a pair of jeans that one of my brothers had worn, and I guarantee it had knee patches that my Grandma had sewn on to cover the holes. They brought a semi-trailer of that cheese and parked it the middle of town by the church. It sat there for a couple of days, because nobody wanted to be the first to take charity goods. I remember our priest telling us to take the cheese and use it or it would go to waste, which was exactly the right message for our town full of thrifty German Catholics. There were seven of us at home then, and we finished off that block of cheese in a weekend, I think.  |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:12:51 AM EDT
[#29]
So we all agree that being poor sucked.
Builds character. Early 1970’s we had the food stamps and we hated it but we had to eat. I lied about my age at 14 and got my first job. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:25:55 AM EDT
[#30]
LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER, EATING A STEADY DIET OF GOVERNMENT CHEESE!!!!
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:31:24 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well that’s a blast from the past. Now I’m traumatized remembering JC Penney plain pocket jeans and no name K Mart shoes. They had a name Trax! Fake Adidas and Tiger knockoffs |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:44:22 AM EDT
[#32]
I remember my grandparents getting this back in the 50's along with the canned beef and pork. The cheese was great!
Would love to find some canned beef or pork now of the same quality now. The program was as much about subsidizing farmers as helping the low income families nutrition. Foodstamps came along and limited this type of distribution. Then along came the debit card because the powers that be decided people were being stigmatized by plopping down stamps at the register. Now you can see the welfare queens buying steaks, lobster, whatever on your dime if you pay attention. After this china virus came along, there has been a farm to family program on and off that has been distributing with no qualifiers. Things just getting better. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 4:57:22 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So we all agree that being poor sucked. Builds character. Early 1970's we had the food stamps and we hated it but we had to eat. I lied about my age at 14 and got my first job.  |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 5:11:29 AM EDT
[#34]
 Government Cheese - Camping on Acid |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 7:19:55 AM EDT
[#35]
I remember it being similar to Velveeta, but firm and not as salty. A slice of gov cheese, white bread, mayonnaise, and a slice of tomato on white bread was very tasty.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:01:46 PM EDT
[#36]
This thread is making me all nostalgic and shit. Not that I ever want to go back to being that poor, but it wasn't all bad. The cheese was certainly pretty good.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:30:00 PM EDT
[#37]
Yup, mid-80s as well. Grandmother on SS got it. We sliced, slap on white bread (don't call me wacist) and ate away. Mixed it with other foods as well but cheese sammiches were our fast making and fast eating snack.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:31:29 PM EDT
[#38]
Childhood friend had a single mom that lived with her parents, she got the guberment cheese.
Best grilled cheese ever. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:34:45 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've eaten it. I remember it making pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. Had an aunt that used to give us hers. Some of the best cheese ever. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:43:23 PM EDT
[#40]
I was born in 1980. I remember it being used with eggs and grilled cheese, made great grilled cheese. I can almost visualize it on my grandparents butcher block.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 2:44:49 PM EDT
[#41]
We should have been stacking surplus food deep during the plentiful times.
Instead it seems like those programs are being cut back We were feeding it to the inmates thirty years ago, never had a one of them drop dead from eating the stuff |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 3:12:14 PM EDT
[#42]
Government cheese is people.
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Posted: 2/26/2021 3:53:11 PM EDT
[#43]
That was good cheese.
Also the #10 cans of peanut butter. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 3:54:32 PM EDT
[#44]
Cheese *product*
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Posted: 2/26/2021 4:07:35 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Until I was in high school, I was wearing a pair of jeans that one of my brothers had worn, and I guarantee it had knee patches that my Grandma had sewn on to cover the holes. They brought a semi-trailer of that cheese and parked it the middle of town by the church. It sat there for a couple of days, because nobody wanted to be the first to take charity goods. I remember our priest telling us to take the cheese and use it or it would go to waste, which was exactly the right message for our town full of thrifty German Catholics. There were seven of us at home then, and we finished off that block of cheese in a weekend, I think. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: If you weren't wearing Toughskins(TM), I don't want to hear how bad you had it. Until I was in high school, I was wearing a pair of jeans that one of my brothers had worn, and I guarantee it had knee patches that my Grandma had sewn on to cover the holes. They brought a semi-trailer of that cheese and parked it the middle of town by the church. It sat there for a couple of days, because nobody wanted to be the first to take charity goods. I remember our priest telling us to take the cheese and use it or it would go to waste, which was exactly the right message for our town full of thrifty German Catholics. There were seven of us at home then, and we finished off that block of cheese in a weekend, I think. I grew up in NW Ohio. Luckily I was the oldest of everyone, including cousins, so I rarely had patched up clothing. My sister and brothers...lol.... Even then Mom would still sew patches on my jeans because I was hard on them doing farm work. In the summer I was a shorts only guy and looked like all the migrant farm workers kids...  |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 4:10:31 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember my grandparents getting this back in the 50's along with the canned beef and pork. The cheese was great! Would love to find some canned beef or pork now of the same quality now. The program was as much about subsidizing farmers as helping the low income families nutrition. Foodstamps came along and limited this type of distribution. Then along came the debit card because the powers that be decided people were being stigmatized by plopping down stamps at the register. Now you can see the welfare queens buying steaks, lobster, whatever on your dime if you pay attention. After this china virus came along, there has been a farm to family program on and off that has been distributing with no qualifiers. Things just getting better. I swing though here when visiting family during the year. Really good canned meats. Keystone Meats |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 4:13:34 PM EDT
[#47]
My small town had so much of the stuff they were giving it away to almost everyone. Lots of people had it in their pantry, poor or not.
The yellow cheese was pretty tasty. The white cheese............ Yuck. I don't remember anyone liking that. |
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Posted: 2/26/2021 11:24:25 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: If you weren't wearing Toughskins(TM), I don't want to hear how bad you had it. Right? Tough to run when you can't bend at the knee.
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Posted: 2/27/2021 10:15:54 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well that’s a blast from the past. Now I’m traumatized remembering JC Penney plain pocket jeans and no name K Mart shoes. You had shoes? Lucky, |
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Posted: 2/27/2021 10:25:19 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: At least it is actual cheese and not "Pasteurized Cheese Product" (AKA 'American Cheese). Cheddar has its' place but american cheese is the goto for New Mexico style red chile enchiladas for me. Hispanic grandparents in TorC New Mexico got commodity cheese back in the 60's . I grew up eating that cheese on home made mexican food. Nothing better IMO. |
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