Make America Grate Again? There's 1.4 Billion Pounds Of Surplus Cheese In The U.S.

wbur ^ | Jan. 8, 2019 | Jeremy Hobson

[WHATNEXT?]

Has anybody every had the cheese from, I think, University of Washington, that comes in a can? Wonderful!

[hinckley buzzard]

I recall in the early ‘80s we had a huge surplus of cheese stored in great caverns in Kansas or somewhere. It was used by giving it to people on welfare. “Welfare cheese” by the millions of pounds. My then grandmother-in-law got some. It was actually very good cheese.

Since this has come around again, I’d say the gov should auction it off and use the money to build a wall on the southern border.

[piasa]

Yes, cheese can be frozen though it may make the texture more crumbly.

[piasa]

Maybe we could use it in catapults and lob it into North Korea.

[piasa]

Aging breaks down lactose I believe

[piasa]

Why does the government have a cheese stockpile?

Bernie Sanders?

[piasa]

We could send it to the Kurds so we could call them Cheese Kurds.

[piasa]

My town had 100% Democrat politicians who knew to the minute when the cheese handouts would be. It was always said they and their families and friends were the first in line.

[Drago]

“Whey” Nice cheesy pun! ;-)

[kiryandil]

I saw what you did there...

[txhurl]

I remember 5lb blocks of (luscious) gummint American cheese in the 70s.... queso was not ‘invented’ until about 1983.

[Drago]

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Why does the government have a cheese stockpile? I didn’t know the answer to this in the ‘80s and I still don’t now.
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Government import restrictions, price supports, etc. (Govt. buys milk and makes "pasteurized processed cheese blocks" out of it).

>https://www.atr.org/steep-cost-dairy-programs-a7138

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/madness-american-milk-prices

[blueplum]

well, there’s the solution! stick that cheese in a dark cellar and in 5 or so years, it’ll be worth 10 times as much :)

[jonathonandjennifer]

From “Repo Man”?

[trebb]

Yep - was a time when a lot of military qualified for the WIC program and were given cheese and other items...add crackers and I’ll take some of it off their hands....