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[ALACOWMAN]

http://youtu.be/hq-hx73or30. :cowboy:

 

[Bigfoot]

He mentioned getting commodities. I wish they would bring that back, and do away with food stamps. Either way they are fed, but with commodities they can't buy old junk food and crap.

 

[skyhightree1]

I gotta admit I didn't hear all the words but I sure would like one of them there caddys :D

 

[ALACOWMAN]

He mentioned getting commodities. I wish they would bring that back, and do away with food stamps. Either way they are fed, but with commodities they can't buy old junk food and crap.

the old commodity cheese was great. :cowboy:

 

[Bigfoot]

I remember my mother telling me about something called "American Meal". I think it was corn meal handed out as assistance. If my memory is correct, it was really bright yellow. To this day she insist on white corn meal. It seems the stigma attached to bringing bright yellow corn bread in her lunch to school haunts her to this day.

Can't remember who I would get it from, but that gobment cheese was the best.

 

[TexasBred]

He mentioned getting commodities. I wish they would bring that back, and do away with food stamps. Either way they are fed, but with commodities they can't buy old junk food and crap.

the old commodity cheese was great. :cowboy:

Yes sir and so was the peanut butter. :nod:

 

[skyhightree1]

I remember my mother telling me about something called "American Meal". I think it was corn meal handed out as assistance. If my memory is correct, it was really bright yellow. To this day she insist on white corn meal. It seems the stigma attached to bringing bright yellow corn bread in her lunch to school haunts her to this day.

Can't remember who I would get it from, but that gobment cheese was the best.

:lol2:

 

[cross_7]

I remember my mother telling me about something called "American Meal". I think it was corn meal handed out as assistance. If my memory is correct, it was really bright yellow. To this day she insist on white corn meal. It seems the stigma attached to bringing bright yellow corn bread in her lunch to school haunts her to this day.

Can't remember who I would get it from, but that gobment cheese was the best.

My grandparents didn't "need" it, but they got it somehow

 

[skyhightree1]

yall are speaking my language talking about good cheese so I looked it up to find out who made it for the gov't and this is all i found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

Government cheeseFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search Government cheese is processed cheese that was provided to welfare, food stamp recipients and the elderly receiving Social Security in the United States, from the 1960s through to the early 1990s. (The style of cheese predated the era, having been used in military kitchens since the Second World War and in schools since as early as the 1960s.)


Contents [hide]
1 History and impact
2 Ingredients
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

History and impact[edit]The cheese was bought and stored by the government's Commodity Credit Corporation. Direct distribution of dairy products began in 1982 under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program of the Food and Nutrition Service. According to the government, it "slices and melts well."[1] The cheese was provided monthly, in unsliced block form, with generic product labeling and packaging.

The cheese was often from food surpluses stockpiled by the government as part of milk price supports. Butter was also stockpiled and then provided under the same program. Some government cheese was made of kosher products.[2] This cheese product is also distributed to victims of a natural disaster following a State of Emergency declaration.

Currently, the USDA provides a subsidized food program for specific classes of foods in the United States known as the Women, Infants and Children program, as well as other programs such as The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP).

In the United States the term has been used, sometimes derisively, to describe government assistance, monetary or otherwise, given to some U.S. residents; for example, a person receiving such aid could be said to "live on Government Cheese."

Ingredients[edit]Like traditional processed American cheese, it consists of a variety of cheese types and other ingredients such as emulsifiers blended together, and may be made of any of Cheddar cheese, Colby cheese, cheese curd, or granular cheese.[2]

See also[edit]Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program
References[edit]1.Jump up ^ All Purpose
2.^ Jump up to: a b Pasteurized Process American Cheese for use in Domestic Programs
External links[edit]USDA Commodity Requirements - PCD5 Pasteurized Process American Cheese for Use in Domestic Programs - description of government cheese

 

[hillbilly beef man]

He mentioned getting commodities. I wish they would bring that back, and do away with food stamps. Either way they are fed, but with commodities they can't buy old junk food and crap.

It would not change much. Back in the good old days many a person has walked out of the courthouse (that is where they gave commodities away around here) and traded a weeks worth of groceries for a case of beer.

 

[slick4591]

I remember my grandparents would come to the square here where the government truck was and get whatever they were passing out. I do remember the cheese and peanut butter, and maybe sometimes a bag of rice or beans. I think that cheese made the best nachos I've ever eaten.

 

[greybeard]

Wait...are you folks saying there isn't any more govt cheese and peanut butter? They don't give it out anymore and won't be?

 

[jedstivers]

The butter was better than anything you could buy in the store. Here they gave out so much the people they gave it to couldn't eat it all and would trade or sell it.