Dear Obama, bring back Government Cheese.

[KittyWampus]

An article was just posted in GD about the milk industry suffering from falling demand and prices.

Surely there's a way to help out dairy farmers and those who are having a tough time affording nutritious whole foods like cheese?

What do you all think?

[scheming daemons]

1. That was actually one of my FONDEST memories of the Reagan years...

My grandfather used to get that government cheese and butter.... and that stuff was GOOOOOOOOOD!


Those chunks of govt cheese were 10 times better than anything Velveeta ever made.

[AFSCME girl]

4. It makes excellent mac & cheese!

:hi:

[dionysus]

5. we had that with school lunch and i liked it too

[AspenRose]

6. My grandmother as well

Huge long boxes...

[cliffordu]

22. I think I have yet to pass some of that cheeze. Sure was good, though.

[populistdriven]

26. I waited in line at 6 AM in February in Eau Claire Wisconsin for that cheese and it was GREAT

those made the best grilled cheese sandwiches!

[billyoc]

2. Expand food stamps. The milk will be bought anyway then.

[Submariner]

3. Steve Harvey does a great stand-up routine about guvmint cheese

on an HBO comedy special. My eyes were watering from laughing so hard. Thanks for the reminder.

[AyanEva]

7. Only if it tastes better than the crap in the 80s

I was little but I remember it being the nastiest tasting cheese ever. Like they took all the cheese bits that no one wanted and melted them down to form a new brick. And don't try to make anything with it, like a pizza or grilled cheese. Best to just choke it down as-is. Government cheese and government peanut butter. I think they wanted to make people even more miserable than they already were.

Although the peanut butter was great for making cookies.

That said, that "crap" kept us fed so I should probably stop complaining.

[scheming daemons]

8. I disagree whole-heartedly.....

...I *LOVED* that cheese.

[AyanEva]

11. LOL

Yeah, while I was typing everyone else posted saying how much they loved it and I was like, "...oh." LOL

I'm beginning to think that maybe we just ate too much of it. I remember eating a lot of it and liking it at first and then after a while not liking it. :shrug:

[killbotfactory]

9. Or we could transform the industry to be completely organic

There is not much use pumping cows full of growth hormone and feeding them the cheapest shit possible which the cows were never meant to live off of, which requires the overuse of antibiotics to fend of the infections caused by the poor diet, if there is too much milk in the supply.

[Joanne98]

10. That's a great idea! K&R!

[leftstreet]

12. The only people who should be drinking Cow's Milk are Baby Cows

:popcorn:

[nxylas]

13. What about baby bulls?

Sexist! :P

[leftstreet]

15. That's why God made Red Bull

[KittyWampus]

17. Red Bull and Government Cheese would make some nice Welsh Rarebit

:D

[Renew Deal]

14. lol

:rofl:

[Rebubula]

16. Johnny Lineup

That is all

[trackfan]

18. I remember those giant blocks of cheese

which came in a cardboard box had a rather dull orange color.

[ellacott]

19. It was hard to make a good grilled cheese sandwich with that cheese

It was hard to melt.

[Tatiana]

20. Man, those made the best grilled cheese sandwiches.

Especially if you fried them in the skillet will government butter.

[ellacott]

23. Maybe I cut my slices too thick

I couldn't get them melt properly. :)

[Ioo]

21. That was some great stuff!!!!!!

[Hardrada]

24. I remember checking out thrift shops for used books

and they were handing out these boxes of gummint cheese willy nilly so I took some home. Not too bad. I remember leg warmers too. My wife still has hers.

[Uncle Joe]

25. If he does, who will cut the cheese? n/t

[populistdriven]

27. We called it Gubment Cheese...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

28. Used to love Gubmint PB.

Can't remember the cheese though. Neither can be very healthy for people, either way.