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Default The mild cheddar blues

Nancy Young wrote:
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> "Goomba" > wrote
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>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>> "Serene Vannoy" > wrote
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>>>> (The quality of government cheese really was better when I was a kid
>>>> than it is these days. In the olden days, it was real cheese in big
>>>> blocks.)
>>>
>>> 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.


I did not care for it at all. It was super-salty. I haven't had any
since probably 1982, so maybe it was a bad vintage. I do recall thinking
that it would probably kill a lot of people with high blood pressure. It
was that salty.

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