Am I the only one that liked Government Cheese?

You can't BUY it....

I remember back in da day when da gubmint trucks would roll up in da 'hood and pass out chease and buddah....dem dayz be long gone....

If it can't be bought. Is it still the same? I remember it as a cheese that wasn't all processed. Just this solid block of good cheese in a brown cardboard box.

It was good cheese. It has to be SOME brand, but I don't know which...

I don't even know what Government Cheese is.

i don't know about all that. all I remember is my grandma always had a big chunk for us to take home when we would go home, and she also had these boxes of c-rats in the basement with cigs in em... but the cheese was the good part at that moment

haha...I used to get it from my grandma too and it really was good cheese!

there we go.. question answered. I was not the only one that liked it! made the best grilled cheese sandwiches I can remember!

I searched for a picture of the box... it did look like this:

[link to thesologuide.com]

But wasn't cheddar cheese, it was yellow american the stuff my grandma use to get.

I think it was good back then but would probably be nasty now. It had to be the cheapest way to process cheese known to man. It was probably more oil than milk. I ate tons of it when i was younger and it was the bomb back then... I wouldn't eat it now... knowing that it was/is government regulated cheese.

It was the best. The Peanut Butter was good too. They don't have those programs anymore, unfortunately. I think it made a lot more sense than food stamps. Maybe a combination of the two would work. I don't know.

Anyway, Velveeta is the closest thing to it you can buy.

I just remember it being real tasty. You may be right though as I was younger then and didn't have developed taste buds. But I still remember it having a "cheese" flavor, unlike the velveeta or kraft american cheeses of today.

Yeah. That stuff was the best! I think my parents used to call it Reagan cheese.

[link to www.fsa.usda.gov]

lol yeah I remember the peanut butter too... always had to mix it to spread the "oil" before putting it on bread/toast.

but velveeta is so soft and bland compared to what I remember.

I don't think it was oil. It was real cheese. It wasn't Velveeta either.

They used to give it to charities. My aunt was dying of cancer, so she was given two boxes. She gave one to my father. That is how I ever wound up with it. We only ever had one box, so mostly I ate non-government cheese. The government cheese was good.

What happened is this, in the 80s, Reagan bought cheese from farmers to be distributed through charitable organization. The cheese I ate would have been from the first year.

oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!! that was my favorite!!!!!!!!!! i went to the point of stealing little pieces every now and then so they would not notice! i wish to find a similar one!

Of course we like cheese, Gromit.

yeah! and the peanut butter was good too! We need to find it and make a reunion!! I will cry! he he

It was Bomgaards cheese made in Wisconsin, I believe. I remember having to eat that crap also.

And things haven't changed for the better since.

lol yeah, I use to do that. I'd be at my grandmas and ask to put the cheese back in the fridge on purpose, so I could cut off a extra chunk.

So I guess that's a -1 on liking it?

I have never had the peanut butter, but Smuckers was similar in appearance to what ya'll are describing.

The early cheese was not made for the government. It was made to be sold to someone. So, it was premium cheese.

I read Obama wants to have cheese destroyed. Food banks are begging for food. The government should buy it and hand it out.

[link to www.bongards.com]

There's a link. My memory was a little dim, but that was like 30 years ago.

Actually, it was good cheese, I just didn't like the fact I had to stoop to that level, but hell things were worst during Ronny Rayguns rule out here in the sticks.

Good luck to you.

It was good. I miss those blocks...

I remember the peanut butter being oily. As I think it was more natural peanut butter, had to keep mixing it.

If this is true about Obama wanting to destroy cheese, I shall spend all my efforts to make sure he doesn't get relected as I love all kinds of cheese!

;) Whatever works

Thanks for the link.. but I remember this before Reagan times.

In the 50s and 60s the only time I got to eat that cheese was in the school lunchroom on grilled cheese and chili days. They also had peanut butter sandwich and chili days but I didn't like those as much.

My grandma grew up in the depression, and she would bring us free cheese and butter when I was a kid...I remember asking why she would stand in line for it when she had the money to just buy it...when I got older I realized it was just a way of life for her. If there was a sale on soap or toilet paper she'd buy cases of it...free napkins from restaurants, matches from the bank, she was a trip!

Last Edited by BRIEF on 09/16/2011 09:42 AM