The food bank started giving out USDA cheese again...

[Roon]

We used to call it "reagan cheese" but it's a big block of american cheese!! It's so good!

[NightWatcher]

1. the gub'ment pnut butter was so good too

[Roon]

3. Oh yeah!!

eom

[mcctatas]

2. gov. cheese always gives me this earworm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68LAbJtd4uk

in a sluggish economy
inflation,recession
hits the land of the free
standing in unemployment lines
blame the government for hard time

we just get by
however we can
we all gotta duck
when the shit hits the fan

10 kids in a cadillac
stand in lines for welfare checks
let's all leach off the state
gee!the money's really great!

soup lines
free loaves of bread
5lb 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

[Orsino]

4. Gotta make room for the Soylent Green. n/t

[Inchworm]

5. Good to know

I may need to hunt some down soon x(

:hi:

[HopeHoops]

6. Don't forget the gummint butter!

1 lb block years back.

[texanwitch]

7. That was good stuff.

I knew someone who couldn't eat dairy so I bought if from her.

She needed the extra money.

[Roon]

8. It is good stuff...going to make grilled cheese tonight eom

[texanwitch]

9. I can still taste that cheese.

Enjoy the grill cheese tonight.

I don't know how the cheese was made but I would love to have some right now.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. We called it surplus cheese

and all that USDA give away was called surplus food. The cheese block was much better than the packaged cheese at the stores. The pound of butter was such a luxury for my mother. We kids didn't like the taste of it on toast so she'd use it for cooking and keep a bit aside for HER toast.

Surplus food kept us well fed for a few years. The canned meat was a treat except for that stringy canned meat. We ate it, but no amount of doctoring it made it tasty. The canned pork was the best of the bunch.