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[@damonbryan7232]

The thing about the letter. The following year pizza hut came out with stuff crust pizza. Then cheese breadsticks.

[@steeljawX]

I'm sure the dairy cabal was part of that, but Jane Fonda is also part of the cause of stuffed crust pizza, or rather the predecessor of it; the Cheesy Bites Pizza. So, think of the stuffed crust pizza, but turn the crust 90 degrees in sections so you have more like a splayed cornucopia of stuffed bread sticks spiking out from a pizza. That's the cheesy bites pizza which really when you think about it was really close to the stuffed crust pizza. But Jane Fonda ended up breaking her ankle on a film set, did rehab, got some "advice" she passed to the public as she went on to become a fitness person, and that spurred on DMI to get Pizza Hut to make that. She was telling people to drink 1 and 2% milk instead of whole milk and because she's Jane Fonda, the fitness lady guys will keep staring at and women at the time idolized as the figure they wanted, a bunch of people listened to her. So since there's more whole milk being left unsold and also the skimmed fat from the 1 and 2% milk left behind, the DMI does what it has always done; turn it into cheese and foist it onto someone else in the form of an "innovative cheese product." That sucker happened to be Pizza Hut, but it's the weird irony that gets me. An actress turned fitness advocate ended up introducing one of the most unhealthy things in the world to the world. Is stuffed crust good? Yeah. Do you feel the violent protesting of your arteries 3 minutes after consumption? Also yes.

[@bernardh4635]

Guess what Pizza company came out with cheese bread first. lololol I just need validation that it was my invention.

[@theylied1776]

Yep, back in the 1980s, if you are over the age of 50, they would bring cheese to your house. My grandmother got a block of government cheese once a month. She didn't sign up for it, but since she was a registered voter they sent it to her. To get rid of it, my grandmother would make me and my brothers and my cousins grilled cheese sandwiches.

[@rg20322]

Yup - I've had the brown wrapped block. Not bad.

[@Green.P3]

Nice

[@rhoetusochten4211]

Grilled gubment cheese sammiches were my summers. I'm surprised I ever pooped.

[@bus6292]

Grilled cheese sandwiches made from government cheese was growing up poor in the 80's. Unwrap the brown block, scrape off any green and slice twice when mom wasn't looking.

[@theylied1776]

@@bus6292 no, you didn't have to be poor to receive government cheese. My grandmother was sent government cheese because she was a registered voter over the age of 50. If you lived in a state with a smaller population, they were under a mandate to sign up a certain amount of people.

[@Syzygy77]

I’m a truck driver and I regularly deliver cheese to the underground warehouses most of which are in Missouri.

[@sheldoninexile]

"If they had oil down there" Yeah we do that too.

[@RealDiehl99]

I've actually been to the underground "cheese bunkers" while driving for Prime, Inc. A mega Trucking company headquartered in Springfield, MO. It's quite a surreal experience driving a huge truck and trailer in narrow, underground tunnels. The tunnels are used bc it is easier to maintain optimum climatic conditions for the storage of cheese. That's what we are told anyway.

[@phillipsuttles1926]

the cheese was not moldy. everyone i knew got free government cheese and butter. governments prop up markets this way. Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve to keep from having wild swings in market p;rices.

[@fennyferrister668]

The block of cheese presented at the press conference was. Use your context clues.

[@Broomer52]

Why did you censor “Prices”

[@erics607]

The "down by the river" actor is Chris Farley who coincidentally is from Wisconsin which is known as the dairy state. Wisconsin at this point is known for producing 600 varieties of cheese. When I was in elementary school and even high school, there were commercials all the time to drink milk, and there were dairy farms everywhere in my home state of Wisconsin. Now farmers are disappearing in droves because they can't make a good living off of what they do. What used to be small successful family farms are now being bought up by giant corporations, or they're being left to fall apart.

[@tricitymorte1]

My grandparents weren't dairy farmers, but their land has been used for commercial farming for decades. It's still in the family at the moment, at least 40 acres of it. I'm hoping to get my hands on it, but it's not likely that I will. The family farmers are still plugging away at it, but they're getting ready to retire. No one knows what will happen to the land when they do. Doesn't sound like anyone in the family wants to take over for the commercial side of it. I would take the 40 acres where the homestead was and build a hobby farm, in a heartbeat. But I don't want to do commercial farming. It's a bit of a pickle.

[@BigMike4Ever]

The US has many underground storage facilities privately owned. There’s a popular one that is open to the public and you can drive through. Its 10s of miles long

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

gov't subsidies do NOT lower prices of stuff for the consumer. Why not? BECAUSE the $ for the subsidies comes from the CONSUMER in the first place. 1+1 doesn't equal 4.

[@RichardPauls-nk5yr]

Back in 2001 I went on a cross-country bicycle trip with a couple dozen other bicyclists including one fellow from Australia. At the finish of the ride we had a banquet together to say our goodbyes and to also make any other comments thought appropriate. The guy from Australia was a bit upset wanting to know why he couldn't get a meal from a restaurant that didn't have cheese piled on the food - everything had cheese on it or in it. Being an American, it all seem normal to me. This video brought back to mind that guy's rant.

[@scottbmedic]

The van by the river was Chris Farley. He played a motivational speaker and it was a regular skit on Saturday night live. Chris Farley assumed room temperature several years ago

[@kwalsh1968]

Classic skit ❤

[@Charlee1776]

As a child we made use of a lot of government cheese and peanut butter too for that matter. My family was glad for it too because we were going through some very hard times and it helped keep food on the table. We used to be rather inventive and use the cheese in ways you may not think of like as bait for fishing to put fish on the table etc. It kept my family nourished so I have no hate for the government cheese.

[@JIMBEARRI]

Hey, Guys. This was not something that happened in the US alone. The EU had it's own agricultural surplus problems during the 1970s. I can remember at least one episode of "Yes, Minister" that made jokes about the 'Beef Mountain", "Butter Mountain" and the "Wine Lake". Look those up on Wikipedia, they were real. Germany turned surplus milk into butter, and the French turned surplus wine into industrial alcohol.

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

I checked those out and Jesus christ they're *REAL*

[@bowenhunsaker6878]

Oregon is the home of the tillamook cheese factory. A cheese that's sold all over the world:)

[@bubbasimpson9111]

I used to drive trucks for the cheese caves last year. Specifically the main one in Missouri. It's owned by kraft as well as the caves in Dallas Texas.

[@margaretsimmons1598]

Saturday Night Live was the program with the sketch in a van down by the river. The comedian was Chris Farley.

[@bigdog44pc]

American cheese is a type of processed cheese made by mixing one or more types of cheeses, including Cheddar cheese, washed curd cheese, Colby cheese, and granular cheese (1). Despite being called “American cheese,” its official name is “pasteurized process American cheese.”

[@SeanHenderson]

The government back in the day fellas, if you were a low income family on welfare. The government used to give families on food assistance. A significant sized block of cheese. Every month you would get one. But got to the points where the cheese was being traded on the 'black matket' for real cash. As a fsmily that wasn't on food assistance. It mattered little to acquire a block of cheese. Testifying, the cheddar cheese was top notch stuff. Very delicious to such a degree that even though the distribution cease in 1990. My heart longs for guv'ment cheese. So if accounting the fact they haven't distributed cheese to citizens in over 30 years, is make sense.❤

[@gayleroberts-stewart3016]

I agree. It was good cheese. You can still buy it, under some other name.

[@momentary_]

My grandparents received blocks of cheese from the government when I was a kid. They didn't ask for it, but got sent it anyway. I guess they stopped sending cheese when Kraft and Velveeta took it over.

[@user-po3ev7is5w]

There was a similar thing with sheep ranchers because wool for military uniforms was a strategic concern so after WW 2 the gov't kept paying ranchers to raise sheep for wool even though it wasn't being bought for the military.

[@Isilithix]

Is it sad/strange that in a weird way, I wonder if in an alternate universe, there are police who pull people over for leaving ice cream parlors and stores because alcohol is still illegal? "Good evening Sir. DO you know why I pulled you over tonight?" "No clue, Officer." "I saw you leave an Ice Cream Parlor not even five minutes ago. And here you are, driving." "It's just ice cream, Officer. Not booze." "Sir, I'm just trying to do my job. And speaking of which, would you be willing to submit to a Frozen Dairy Sobriety test? Just a friendly reminder, if you decline; you will be going to jail." "You don't need to do that, Jerry. I can see a half eaten ice cream sandwich on the passenger seat floor." "It's literally just an ice cream sandwich..." "Sir, step out of the car. Now."

[@scottbmedic]

One of the popular ice cream back then was rum raisin 😅

[@neshobanakni]

That was halfway decent cheese. Mild, salty Cheddar. If you were on any gov't program - food stamps, WIC, any sort of welfare - You got the five-pound blocks of cheese. My dad visited the caves in Missouri. It is an underground city, with numerous industries. He was visiting paper companies. At 55 degrees F., and perfect humidity, paper can be stored without warping. There are streets and avenues carved out of the salt, with street signs so you can find your way around. Silly gov't controls of milk prices still exist, all based upon your dairy farm's distance from some town in Wisconsin. Farmers are now forced to pour their milk production out on the ground if they "overproduce." Government regulation has changed little from the 1940s. When my dad was a kid, the county agent would come around and measure his cotton crop. He often had to destroy a number of rows to meet the allowed quota.

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

You got a good point of a "what-if" scenario in which the global economy is based off cheese. After having said that, I got inspired and made a plot for an animated film titled "it's cheesy"

[@Westpark16]

They would also send it to schools for lunch programs. TOTALLY REMEMBER GETTING CHEESE AT GRANDMAS

[@LarryHatch]

A Congressman figured (wrongly) they could unlock the cheese reserve and give it all to people on food stamps, saving the government countless millions of dollars. They did give some away but physicians complained because the cheese is very high fat and if alot of it consumed....cholesterol and heart disease...costing more millions. In 1981 the Reagan Administration tried yet again and gave away 30 million pounds to food pantries and school lunch programs. That was just a drop in the bucket (of milk).

[@Loki_Trickster]

(USDA) CSFP still gives out 32 oz block of cheese each month to elderly. it took something like 16 years to moderate the market ending in the Got milk campaign. The government still purchases milk but at a much lower volume and generally to continue to outfit programs started in the 80's. One thing that isn't talked about is that we DUMPED a lot of cheese to other countries as well in aid packages,

[@firefighterchick]

Gee, the government making strange decisions. Wow, I'm blown away.😂 The actor was Chris Farley and the show is Saturday Night Live.

[@Michellefeltzer-hd4mq]

We were given government cheese in the 80's and it was, how do y'all say it, proper grim! 😂

[@retired4365]

I had government cheese when I was a kid and that stuff was really good because it was real. Not like that fake stuff we get today. 😂😂

[@rg20322]

Absolutely!

[@tricitymorte1]

What we get today is still cheese, it's just not aged as long. A really good cheese has to be allowed to sit in the cold for at least a year. The government cheese sat for decades, which is why it was so good.

[@justchillin6793]

It’s actually damn good cheese.

[@IshiAndNomyJackson]

That govt cheese was pretty good! 😄

[@drunkbuzzard3237]

The cheese is nothing new back in the 70s Jimmy Carter was giving it out to help people out because he thought somehow that was gonna help people into financial times to get a couple pounds of cheese after having stand in line for a long time for it My uncle went down and stood in line to get his cheese even though we could afford to buy some. Because it was his tax money and he’s gonna have his cheese dammit.

[@John.Christopher]

DAVE DONT GO! THEY CAN PUT YOU ON A TABLET ON SKYPE WITH A SHIRT AND HAT ON WHERE YOUR CHAIR IS! OR MAYBE THEY COULD JUST PUT ROCKY DENNIS IN THE CHAIR! IN EITHER CASE, CHEERS TO YOU!

[@sanguinembwun6475]

You should see what Switzerland did with the alps! It’s a Warren of interconnected caves under there! Hannibal may have made it over the alps but hitler sure wasn’t! The government of Switzerland filled the alps with tons of camouflaged Machine gun, mortar, tank, and artillery positions during WW2! That’s one of the big reasons why they could stay neutral! Nowadays they use those thousands of caves the same way we do, for storage! They store priceless art, seeds, antiques, and other things in those caves!

[@klb9142]

We used to line up on Saturday morning outside of a local Christian charity to receive government cheese, butter, powdered milk, and canned pork & beef.

[@terrencemcginnis7221]

Around 1971 or so the US government gave away a lot of free cheese. They sent trucks loaded with cheese all over the place giving it away in 5 lb chunks to anybody who wanted some. My mom remembers getting a 5 lb block of Swiss cheese at the time from some guy who was going door to door giving it away. I think their warehouses were full so they decided to just give it away. They probably gave dairy farmers some money to make up for the dip in demand that resulted from their give away program.

[@skinnytrees]

One of my high school year books theme was Got Milk? It is literally a black leather binding and the cover just says got milk? in lowercase white with a year at the bottom Thats how big it was lol

[@SeanHenderson]

The cheddar state is WISCONSIN!

[@lianabaddley8217]

Cheese Heads!!

[@danielhenry177]

Theres a lot of odd goings-on around the world...for a lark, look up orangejuice tankers 😂

[@bernardh4635]

I worked at a pizza place back in the late 80s and early 90s. We made bread sticks like all the other pizza places do. I liked to put shredded cheese on mine and sometimes bacon bits. It was a hit with my co workers. If a firend or family member ordered pizza with bread sticks, I would hook them up with my version of it. So I quit that job in 90 or 91 and about 5 years later, I see a comercial on TV from that company introducing cheezy bread. And they even put pepperoni or bacon bits on it if you wanted. What a kick in the dick. lol

[@bernardh4635]

another kick below the belt was when I introduced people to my childhood invention. It was simple. Get some bread and slather on some peanut butter and then some cheese, butter the outside and grill it the same as you would a grilled cheese sandwich. So good. I told a person her or made it for a girlfriend there....sounds weird but they loved it. Its no different form cheese and PB crackers they sell at the store. But its way better.......butter....crispy toasty bread. Anyway, one of my friends tried and loved it she began to make it for her own family and friends that came over. One of her friends owns a TexMex restaurant in South Texas. She loved it so much she added it to the menu as a child option. Most TexMex places offer non TexMex dishes for kids that are more familiar with cheeseburgers or bologna sandwiches. PBCG. Peanut butter cheese grill.

[@Sunset553]

I knew a guy whose family received government cheese based on their income level. It was ironic because he attended one of the more expensive universities in the country. Yeah, I can barely digest cheese but I know it tastes good, so I have a tiny bit once in a great while, or an ice cream on the hottest day I’m outdoors. My annual dairy self-harm

[@UNDIAGNOSED7]

i had it as a kid same as velvetta BUT WAY BETTER! it was a melty sharp cheese

[@robtintelnot9107]

Not sure how true this is. During the "pandemic" milk farmers were dumping millions of pounds of milk. Just doesn't sound right.

[@Kirinketsu_]

Yes, all "farmers" do this, it is so they can write it off as a lost. This is why retailers also throw out products rather than donating them or giving them away, and try to stop dumpster divers. The same thing happened with fruit during the "pandemic", it just sat and rotted. If the farmers gave it away, then they wouldn't get paid for it.

[@leechowning2712]

Unfortunately... Reagan did his usual thing of selling a government program to private businesses. Something TFE would not know, because we do not like to talk about it much, is that in about 30 states you can only sell milk to a "certified dairy producer"... most of which belong to about a half dozen companies. Here in colorado, I cannot see dairy publicly unless I sell to one of maybe 5 processing sites. During the pandemic, these processers cut staff to about half, leaving a lot of dairy farms with milk they could not legally sell. I know a few guys who got the bright idea to dump it in fields and till it in, but discovered that dairy makes a great base for soil-borne fungi and bacteria.

[@Casey28027]

The US uses a lot of milk.

[@erik_ludwig]

Vermont makes some tasty cheese too! 🤤

[@ryanredmon]

We have the biggest, most beautiful, most luxurious underground cheese bunkers in the world. You guys roll cheese down a hill. I'm just saying let's not judge each other. LOL If shit goes down, the Americans and our British brothers and sisters will be taken care of. We've got the cheese situation handled.

[@SeanHenderson]

The cheddar military complex is scary!

[@eddawg79]

Baby Swiss cheese was invented in Ohio, thats about our biggest contribution to the cheese world.

[@toddnesbitt3113]

Oh, Dallas executives…yeah. Not saying but, yeah. Free money?

[@Green.P3]

Welp now I can’t stop thinking about cheese

[@toddnesbitt3113]

Got a Darlington, but we just made NASCAR.

[@kwalsh1968]

Growing up in the late 70’s early 80’s we were on the low side of income. There was nothing like the “government cheese” . So delicious!

[@willvr4]

I never knew the history behind "government cheese", interesting! I always knew there was some kind of lobbying going around when it came to milk though, because the vast majority of the world is lactose intolerant and overall...it's not good for you. It's really only people of European descent that consume dairy at any level. It's not in most cuisines around the world. I'm just glad I'm not lactose intolerant, because I LOVE cheese.

[@RexFuturi]

This is what happens when the free market isn't really free. Government interference causes wild swings and repercussions, which require even more government interference and cause more consequences.

[@halicarnassus8235]

I can remember a small bit of the 80s when I would see older people with the government cheese blocks

[@garyi.1360]

Many make cheese. The originals that come to my mind are Monterey Jack and Colby. While processed cheese like Velveeta and American are as well.

[@Adroit1911]

It's definitely American cheddar cheese

[@DarkKatzy013]

Awesome gents . Yall need to watch the one before this .

[@netrider5]

It was a skit from Saturday Night Live with Chris Farley in the late eighties or early nineties

[@steveg7066]

Maybe the vegan/ vegetarian movement is because of a surplus of vegetables being produced

[@raamjames1]

My great grandma used to get government cheese when I was a kid. It was actually delicious. Like aged Velvetta.

[@kingjordan5333]

Lol I was just working there a couple weeks ago

[@katyhornsey8142]

Government cheese is American cheese!!!food banks get a lot of it

[@SimoExMachina2]

In Finland when you work for the government we say you are eating "government bread". I wonder if the US would donate some of that cheese to go with that bread?

[@d2ndborn]

Loved it to funny. but normal SOP for the government.

[@patphatkitten]

Yeah, government cheese.

[@xdscyth1152]

You guys should do more popo medic

[@Sceonn]

Damn, looks like it was really good cheeze going by the comments. Too bad I can't get a taste.

[@leechowning2712]

It was a good sharp chedder, now it sells for about $10 a pound.

[@scottgraney5275]

Vermont and wisconsin

[@Thetank096]

What’s wrong with us cheeseheads

[@turbopokey]

Meh, that cheese was not very good, but that was from the point of view of a kid. I’d like to get some now and see what it tastes like, now that I’ve had more cheese-tasting experience.

[@steeljawX]

That's really the true power the US holds over the world. It's not our military or economy. When we want cooperation, we just roll in and tell the head honchos, "Work with us, or we'll blacklist you from our apocalypse cheese storage." And like magic, suddenly the UK is buddy-buddy with us. Japan is cool with our over use of emoji's. Germany loves US Country Music suddenly. As to why China and Russia won't cooperate with the US, have you tried cheese on Russian borscht? It's not that great on General Tso's chicken.

[@scottbmedic]

Vermont is famous for cheese

[@mrbeaverstate]

Subsidies.

[@karlsteffen7804]

Please don't go dave

[@jerzeyguy71]

I wonder if you get money to try to start up new dairy/cheese company? your welcome to who ever actually had the energy to do this after reading my comment!!

[@leechowning2712]

No, unfortunately. The same time they made DMI, they made it so in most states you can only sell to a "certified dairy processor" IE monopoly, of which 70% are owned by a small number of companies like Kraft. Each of those have unofficial quotas of how much dairy they will buy, and it is a pain getting on with them. There are grants out there, but most require you already have a dairy, and they will help you get bigger.

[@John_Redcorn_]

Another textbook example of how everything the gvmnt touches turns to sh*t.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

😂

[@revtoyota]

The bog standard American cheese isn't cheddar that is just what they sell you over there and tell you its "American" cheese. In other countries they sell "American" cheese that is just pre-sliced cheddar.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

So secret everyone knows about it.😴

[@klb9142]

Didn’t know the history of it, just received it.

[@TobyBaker-hz3rw]

Oh,this guy is a joke.