On Jun 30, 8:09�pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
> Michel Boucher wrote:
> > "Nancy Young" > wrote in news:e_KdnXrvi4RQ-
> > :
>
> >>>> Being an army brat, you know I grew up on the stuff. �It was good.
>
> >>> What'd the Army do- issue it to the soldiers as punishment??
> >>> Thankfully my husband was never given any, if it is as bad as
> >>> everyone says?
>
> >> It wasn't bad! �It was very good American cheese. �Similar to the
> >> expensive Kraft Deluxe cheese.
>
> > Ok, so those who have tasted it say it's good (de gustibus etc.) but
> > there seems to persist a notion that Gummint Cheese is bad.
>
> I don't know why people would say that. �I'm serious. �I think
> maybe they started handing out the surplus to the needy at some point
> and, as you say, it sounded like it must be bad. �I'd buy it if it was for
> sale ... well, except that I don't really need lots of American cheese.
> (laugh) �It came in a long box.

Quality American cheese is jsut as good a cheese as any oteh rq