@MeBigbrain@sickburnbro Moving to the slow poison because there's limits with legalese if you have to pretend you're a free country. Here's head of cattle per year. Apparently, the population in the US collapsed in the 60s or 1/3rd of Americans went vegan and decided milk and burgers were too much of a hassle... :thinksphere:
@nobullyplz@MeBigbrain@sickburnbro actually that’s about the time the cheese caves became public and Reagan started cracking down on the insane policy of buying all of the unused dairy in the country without question and turning it into a strategic cheese stockpile.
@sapphire@MeBigbrain@sickburnbro Makes sense...but I haven't seen a strategic cheese cave and I demand a tour cuz it sounds like a cool trip. :akko_fistup: We can do Fort Knox second then :trollface:
All those Got Milk ads were to prevent catastrophe when the government stopped BUYING ALL THE UNUSED MILK IN THE COUNTRY WITHOUT QUESTION AND TURNING IT INTO CHEESE
Reagan also gave the cheese away to niggers, the literal government cheese. His original plan was to throw it in the ocean
@sickburnbro@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz Direct distribution of dairy products began in 1982 under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program of the Food and Nutrition Service.
@sickburnbro@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@sapphire "An erroneous article by Modern Farmer began circulating on social media in 2022 implying all of the USDA's 1.5 billion pounds of cheese was stored in caves near Springfield, Missouri." Wikipedia's lying again boys, lets head to springfield and liberate the government cheese.
@Rocket@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@sickburnbro one of my favorite quotes on this topic comes from Fat Electrician talking about Reagan’s original plan to just dump it in the ocean: “you took all our taxes and turned them into cheese, we’d at least like some of the cheese”
@Heil_Honkler@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@sickburnbro@Rocket according to who? It was processed, usually moldy cheddar-based American cheese food product and the overwhelming consensus was that it was only good for making slop
@sapphire@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@sickburnbro@Rocket apparently the govt cheese was actually pretty good quality. properly aged and preserved cheese would be good. that being said it's on a constant rotation of shipping off old stock and intaking new.
@sickburnbro@Heil_Honkler@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@Rocket only niggers and poors ate it and I’m sure their experience was colored more by how well their mom cooked than the quality of the cheese. I’d suspect that someone whose username references Hitler only talked to whites which would color (haha get it) their anecdotes
This is the same Ronald Reagan who tried to abolish food stamps, so I think it’s a pretty educated guess to say if he was trying to give it away that it was close to or beyond its expiration in some way.
Just gonna step in here and say sub percentage of an emulsifier is not expensive, even on industrial scales. I’d even argue that the largest expense of turning cheddar into American cheese is the fact that you’ve got to melt it, not any of the additives.
The USDA as part of the program that included food stamps also handed out "commodity foods" like beans and cheese, the latter was part of a diary farmer price program started by FDR in the early 1930s.
In the early 1970s I ate some both that a fried of the family shared with us, it was perfectly fine. Dried beans are dried beans, the cheese was not American process, that would be a lot more expensive since it starts with real cheese then adds stuff to make it good for cooking, plus a spice for color and its characteristic flavor. Very solid/hard cheddar like. but less flavor.
BTW, FDR deliberately starved the people, per his USDA a quarter of the population, was confirmed by the WWII draft, and I could hear the psychological scars it left in my early Silent Generation parents. After WWII rationing/FDR's death our ruling trash got serious about trying to make sure everyone was well enough fed. Although again, Michelle Obama used the school lunch to again starve children.
And there was a hell of a lot of extra crazy economic stuff in the 1970s that Reagan inherited, I could well see Jimmy Carter doing what was claimed and there being a huge pile of the stuff they just started handing out. Albeit the reluctance would be from the danger of trash everyone who supplied the regular cheese we bought.
That's part of how the West keeps a lot of the Third World starving, dumping "free" food on them after convincing their own governments to be the only buyer of their own, a World Bank program initiated by the same guy who helped ruin our effort to fight the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara.
@sapphire@MeBigbrain@nobullyplz@ThatWouldBeTelling I mean I'm sure if you have enough fuel and can ram enough air in there you can do it. Not sure that would be a good idea on something you can't operate entirely at a distance like a traditional pizza over style, but could be fun.
As far as loading and unloading pizza I've got a big paddle and its just a weber grill with a pellet handler attached, handle doesn't get hot even in the gigaheat mode (I've done this a few times already)