"Michel Boucher" > wrote in message
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> blake murphy > wrote in
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>>>So what exactly *is* government cheese?
>>
>> it's surplus cheese formerly given to the poor (a class bobo
>> desperately fears he will fall into if he hasn't already).
>
> So...it's cheese. What has the fact that it's distributed by the
> government have anything to do with it?
>

Government surplus cheese is, I believe, what is typically known as
"American" cheese. In otherwords, not anything that anyone with a
functioning tastebud, in the US or out, recognizes as "cheese."