The mild cheddar blues
On Jun 30, 8:29Â*pm, Sheldon > wrote:
> On Jun 30, 8:09�pm, "Nancy Young" > wrote:
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> > Michel Boucher wrote:
> > > "Nancy Young" > wrote in news:e_KdnXrvi4RQ-
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> > >>>> Being an army brat, you know I grew up on the stuff. �It was good.
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> > >>> 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?
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> > >> It wasn't bad! �It was very good American cheese. �Similar to the
> > >> expensive Kraft Deluxe cheese.
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> Quality American cheese is nutritionally just as good a cheese as any other quality cheese... only difference is that American cheese is stabilized/pasteurized, it doesn't age and has a longer shelf life. Those blocks of American cheese the government gives to the impoverished are probably produced by Kraft or Land O Lakes or one of the other major cheese producers.
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