Prior to food stamps people reported to welfare offices and picked up commodity packages of flour, sugar, cheese, beans, rice peanut butter etc. We should return to that. If you are too stupid to cook beans and rice then you starve.
I saw those bulk commodities when I was young but already they were being phased out for food stamps. EBT cards are even more abused
That was a different era, there were large quantities of excess food purchased to maintain prices.
Do those excesses still exist? Did food stamps come on line as the excesses diminished?
Lastly, aren’t excess foods packed off to Africa or somewhere? US AID gives it away. Perhaps there is not enough to distribute here so it is shipped to Africa
My grandmother got commodities. Powered eggs would gag a maggot.