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Skriven 2014-07-26 19:43:22 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 15141 av Dave Drum (1:18/200)
Ärende: Gummint Cheese
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Hi Dave,

 DD> I dunno what they gave away as commodity cheese in your area. But,
 DD> around here they were doing 5# blocks of American Cheese (actually a

 RH> This was the velveeta type stuff.

 DD> Eeeeeewwww ... either someone hosed the commodities programme or
 DD> exploited a loophole. Of course, living just south of Wisconsin
 DD> (America's Dairyland) we stood a pretty good chance of getting decent
 DD> cheese.

At the time, NC was more of a tobacco growing state than dairy. They've
since stopped major tovacco production but switched to soybeans and
other crops, still not much dairy.


 DD> mild Cheddar) which was actual cheese, not "process cheese", "cheese
 DD> product", or "cheese food" but the actual real McCoy. My partner and I
 DD> took all we could get any time it was on offer. As we lived in an
 DD> "upscale" community and one had to show low-income, qualification for
 DD> food stamps, unemployment book, etc. the local dispensers were having
 DD> a problem getting rid of a lot of the product. We were happy to help

 RH> We were on $500./month and food stamps for a family of 4. Definately
 RH> qualified on low income part, even tho Steve was working full time.

 DD> Country weekly newspapers were not exactly ca$h cows, either. Were it
 DD> not for Earl being a Special Ed teacher and me running the print shop
 DD> attached to the paper offices we'd have had to look for honest work.

My dad worked for a small town weekly paper for 30+ years. My mom worked
out of the home for some years, then went to work for the school. Got
her MSLS (Master's in Library Science), out earned Dad. That's how we
avoided government give aways when I was a kid, but we ate lots of cheap
stuff.

 DD> out and probably got more than we were strictly entitled to have. They
 DD> gave away butter, powdered milk and rice, too.

 RH> Onslow County never had any of that stuff in the year or so we were
 RH> using the stamps; I'd seen about it other times tho. When Steve had to
 RH> take a day off of work, no pay, just to tell them our situation hadn't
 RH> changed in 6 months, he started looking into the military. You know the
 RH> rest of the story.

 DD> In Rochester it was pretty informal - but, everyone pretty much knew
 DD> everyone else. And gossiped about them. It was a source of much
 DD> material for the local pages of the paper.

I suspect my folks qualified for food stamps before Mom went to work for
the school but never applied for them. The family that owned the paper
Dad worked for got in on IBM in the (very) early years but didn't pay
the newspaper staff the same kind of money.


 DD> This is one of the things we did with the cheese - Earl and I ran the
 DD> Herald newspapers. I was the food and sports editor, a columnist
 DD> (under three different names/styles), the paste-up guy and circulation
 DD> manager.

 DD>       Title: Chile-Cheese Log
 DD>  Categories: Five, Cheese, Nuts, Chilies
 DD>       Yield: 1 pound

 RH> Something easy to do. Since I had young kids and a husband to feed, I
 RH> used the cheese in more substantial things like mac & cheese, made with
 RH> whole wheat pasta. Real mac, fake cheese. Nowadays, the boxed stuff is
 RH> fake mac, fake cheese.

 DD> Why do you say "fake mac"? It's hard to fake flour, egg and water. I
 DD> don't believe I've seen fakes for any of those. Except for "egg
 DD> substitute" (Egg Beaters, etc) and that is more expen$ive than real
 DD> eggs - so, unlikely to be in cheap/bargain/low-end pasta.

Fake mac--white flour, chemicals and such like. Turns to mush in hot
water, no taste to it. Whole wheat mac is the antithesis of fake mac.

 DD>       Title: Homemade Pasta w/Seafood Medley
 DD>  Categories: Pasta, Seafood, Beans, Greens
 DD>       Yield: 4 servings

 DD>     115 g  Rocket

 DD>   Sprinkle over the rocket and cook until the rocket has
 DD>   just wilted.

Looks good but I'm trying to figure out what rocket is. I guess it's
some sort of leafy green vegetable but there are a lot out there to
chose from.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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