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On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:56:59 -0500, George Leppla
> wrote:

>On 7/29/2014 12:08 AM, sf wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 18:42:38 -0500, Janet Wilder >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Welfare Cheese! It's a large oblong brick of yellow cheese. Probably
>>> some kind of "American" cheese. It's very creamy and very salty. About
>>> the only thing it's good for is mac and cheese.

>>
>> I don't remember it being salty, but yes - it was creamy. I was
>> surprised by how good it tasted. I bet it would have been great in
>> mac & cheese.
>>

>
>We ate so much "welfare" mac and cheese when I was a kid that I swore
>when I grew up I'd never eat it again. But it is comfort food for me and
>we have it every now and then.
>
>The other way we used it was even simpler... a slice of cheese on white
>bread with mustard. Too many lunches to count.
>
>There were other items that we didn't use often and my parents traded
>them with other people. I know there were different kinds of beans
>every now and then that my folks traded away.
>
>Where we lived, it wasn't unusual for people to be getting this food. I
>found out later that it was easy to get on the welfare food list back
>then... you just paid the local administrator $50 and you were in so
>there were a lot of people in the program that probably didn't qualify.
> This was the mid to late 50's and early 60's.
>
>George L


I still occasionally like a cheese sandwich on plain white bread with
mustard and thin slices of onion.
Even now when I make a snack plate, if it has cheddar cheese on it,
there's mustard and onion on the plate too.

koko