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Government Cheese
During the early ’80s, part of my cheese business was cutting and packaging government-owned 40-pound cheddar blocks in 5-pound pieces. We also processed 500-pound cheddar cheese barrels into 5-pound American cheese loaves. There was a huge glut of these products in storage and it was getting larger. The Federal government gave it to the states for free distribution. Each state did it differently but the cheese ended up in many households. It was a good product and many people loved it.
Although I am long retired, I sort of keep up with the industry. The Government now has 1.5 billion pounds of cheese in storage again. That’s enough to give 5 pounds to every man, woman, and child in America. Although it disrupts normal supply channels it may be time for the COVID-19 cheese giveaway. What say you, Ricochet?
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Free cheese can be found only in mousetraps.
–Russian pearl of wisdom
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… a semi-soft cheese originally manufactured by Trappist monks in Oka, Quebec.
Concur.
I assume that part of it is to have food supplies and food ingredients ready to feed the military.
… Then probably some Leftist hack got hold of the program, etc. …
Actually, I figure it was some sort of price support system.
It was developed originally to seasonally adjust for the supply and demand for milk, and cheese was used as the means of storing milk. In the not so distant past cows gave a lot more milk in the spring and early summer, more than could be consumed so it was converted to cheese. The government would buy it and then sell it back to the cheese trade in the winter. It’s a long story but the process got perverted. Yes it was hacked but actually by the farmers.
Actually government cheese in storage is owned by a entity created during the New Deal called the commodity credit corporation. In it’s bylaws it specifically states that the products it buys are not allowed for use by the military. I could only guess at the logic behind that. For me that was a good thing because I sold millions of pounds of cheese to the military a year.
I’m not sure I see why it would’ve been necessary in the first place; couldn’t they set aside that cheese for aging instead of selling it to the government and buying it back?
I would like to close out this post with another proposal. Not only should the government giveaway cheese but sausage as well. Why sausage ? Because COVID-19 makes this the worst kase scenario.
Frankly, this is the wiener for wurst pun.