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Here in Canada, we have honest to god maple syrup reserves. There was a big thing in the news where somebody somehow stole (and sold) millions of dollars of maple syrup before this was found out about. Most syrup you buy at the store is just sugar water with maple flavouring. The real stuff costs like $30 a bottle. It's not cheap. But I have no idea why Canada needs to have a stockpile of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist I figured this would make a great video. But I'm sure you've got a huge list of topics you want to do. So it's your call. I'm just throwing it out there. Cheers.
I’m an American and I’ll say that the cheese is there to keep Charles Entertainment Cheese satiated, lest he develop a taste for human flesh and escape containment.
Wait, he's still around? I thought Covid was the final nail in his coffin that finally killed him off as both home and mobile gaming pretty much destroyed the only real reason to go to his establishment. I mean people definitely weren't going there for his pizza.
"Welfare Cheese" was a big cultural thing for many working class Americans in the past including my mom growing up. There's even recipes specifically centered around it.
Government cheese was some great stuff! I only had it for a couple of years when my dad landed on a good union job. For the cheese snobs, cheese from Uncle Sam was designed for cooking with other dishes which meant heating it to melt that gave its distinctive great taste, not to be eaten by itself.
I ate lots of Government Cheese as a kid. I even remember that box. It actually made pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. As a young kid it actually tasted good throw between two slices of bread with some tangy Miracle Whip and was good. It was for a short amount of time we got this cheese but with a loaf of bread and the electric bill paid those grilled cheese sandwiches helped the family out a lot. I guess you needed Butter/Margarine to fry it up also.
I too made a lot of great grilled cheese sandwiches with that exact cheese. The simple labels on the box. It did taste good to me. Been 30 years since I have had any of that government cheese. I would love to have a block of it just to have a taste of Nostalgia.
Growing up as a teenager in the Reagan years, I remember the "Government Cheese" even if my family never qualified or had need of the help. BUT senior citizens *did* qualify to receive the cheese mostly regardless of whether or not they needed it (based on income). Here is where my Grandma living in Dolton, IL (So. border town w/ Chicago; a working-class town) surprised us and reminded us of what a good neighbor was. Grandma was not wealthy but lived in the same house she had since 1943. A Widow since '83 when Grandpa had passed, and in her 70's when Reagan took office, Grandma remembered always what it was like living and raising 3 children through the depression, when she had known hunger but did her best to make sure her kids did not. When she found out that she qualified for the surplus (iirc) 5lb heavy-foiled blocks of cheese, but that her neighbor next door who was a single, working mother of two young daughters DID NOT QUALIFY(!)...she queued up at the Dolton Firehouse just behind her alley (and a short walk), to get her cheese. In that line Grandma found many of her own peers; decently provided for working-class/middle-class retired Seniors who were lining up to "Get their cheese"---not for themselves, but for others. My Gram's neighbor had remarked that the "Government Cheese" was her Daughters' favorite for making grilled cheese---it tasted the best! ------ The U.S. Government has my ongoing, blanket support for buying & stockpiling all the &^%$#@ cheese it wants to!
holy shit i can’t believe it. my grandfather was a semi truck driver and, being from wisconsin, he delivered primarily large amounts of cheese. i used to ride with him on his trips sometimes and thats what leads me to say…. IVE BEEN INSIDE OF THAT CAVE. My grandpa and i used to kick rocks down some of the tunnels. the place is crazy huge inside and very cold and dark. never thought i’d see a picture from inside there in a youtube video. cheers
Actually, regarding the last point about "... a lot of it going to waste...", not as much as you'd think. When a wheel of govt. cheese is close to going off (which takes a lot longer thanks to the extra processing in its manufacture and the storage conditions in the underground vaults that are ideal for cheese longevity), the wheel is taken off the shelf and combined with thousands of other similarly close-to-expiration cheese wheels. They're all melted down together, repasteurized, and sold on the open market through corporations like Kraft as "Processed American Cheese Food Product". Yes, those familiar individually wrapped slices of generic yellow stuff every American has put on their kid's bologna sandwiches and cook-out burgers since time immemorial are actually the recycled excess from the Government Cheese Vaults. That also explains the taste; it's the result of dozens of different varieties of cheese all being melted down and mixed together, because when you've got tons of close-to-expiring cheese to get rid of, you can't necessarily wait to separate them by type and taste, you just throw them all in the industrial fondue pot. The end result is a generic cheese that tastes... eh, good enough.
this is one of those facts on the internet that i struggle to believe but also refuse to fact check because goddammit, i _want_ american cheese to be resuscitated government cave cheese.
Never knew about the stockpile, but I remember eating government cheese in the 80's. It tasted and looked like Velveeta, which isn't actually cheese but a vegetable protein product, so I always assumed that is what government cheese really was. Strangely, I got a lot of government rations growing up because my parents pulled them from dumpsters after the "people in need" took the canned ham from the box and tossed the rest (not faulting my parents, I'd do the same to this day because I'm cheap).
just discovered the beauty of r/frugal, dumpster diving and get much cheap discounts and saving is like satisfying challenge. how can i get this govt cheese? last time during covid there was a lot of food packages/pantries giveaways
@@disunityholychaos7523 Your syntax is somewhat broken but I believe I understand what you are saying. It sounds like you scavenge like myself. That makes up a 3rd of my income despite having multiple college degrees. There is no reason to be shameful of scavenging.
@@disunityholychaos7523 I do try to leave pantries alone at this point in my life... I'm not starving and other people are. As long as the pantry isn't religious oriented, I make huge donations as long as I can afford it.
Mid 1970’s, temporarily out of work, I wanted some government cheese. I went to the government cheese place. I filled out some forms, stood in line to receive my cheese. The lady behind the desk told me I didn’t qualify because, owning my home, I did not pay rent or a mortgage payment, even though I was out of work. I asked, “Are you telling me ‘that’s not-cho cheese?’” (Nacho Cheese Doritos were a new thing then.) She laughed at that, said she wasn’t supposed to do it but handed me a brick of cheese anyway. I liked that cheese. I’d buy some today if I could.
Still astonished that after almost five years on this site, you still don't have a million subs. This platform's so lackluster when it comes to promoting genuinely creative, artistic users like you, Qxir. Never change!
To get Qxir's attention, may I recommend not subscribing? Non-subscribers can enjoy an extra bit of recognition at the end of his videos with (usually subtle) threats of violence.
If someone woke me up in the middle of the night and forced me to pick a favorite RUclips creator.. I'd scream *QXIR* .. don't hurt me, definitely QXIR!!! Put the machete down, Sir... please.. . . . He's like a Klondike bar. I drop everything I'm doing when he uploads. What wouldn't I do to watch this content I never knew I wanted to know about?! Unimaginable things...... And just so happen to have the very same govt cheese - rectangular box shown towards the end - in the fridge, origins of which were a mystery until an Irish gentleman explained. Life's funny like that.
@@imperfectlump6070 My grandpa did that with a stillborn calf too... cut it in pieces inside and the cow survived & had more babies. He was born in 1900 died 1980. Knew everything..self educated. Saved a village from Nazis in WW2 by blowing up a bridge using homemade explosive (no idea what, but it worked). Ppl used to know all sorts of things.. they had to. Especially in times when average lifespan was only about 30-40 years. I'm still amazed how they managed to know so much in such a short life. We're getting progressively dumber with bestest tech humanity invented. 🐄 🤛
My kids and I lived on government cheese, milk powder, and actually ham too. We got it for a whole year, and we loved it. I was so thankful to have it! But I never knew until now the whole story behind it.
I’m pretty sure “Guvment Cheese” is still around for those wondering. It’s usually given through food aid programs in many states. By itself, It’s not really incredible taste wise, but if used to make Mac n’ Cheese or other cheese dishes, it’s high milk content make it really creamy and smooth. My grandmother used to seek it out and buy it from some of the poorer families in her neighborhood in order to use it in various dishes. She would usually the. Bring them back a massive bowl of whatever she made as well as purchasing the cheese from them outright. I would compare it to something like the bricks of Velveeta cheese, as it wasn’t hard cheese like cheddar it was usually in the “American cheese” style at least that’s how I always saw it.
I’ve been going to my local food pantry for the last couple of years and sadly we don’t get any government cheese. 😢 I’m in So. Cal. It would be perfect to use in my vegetarian Italian stuffed bell peppers! I’ve used cheddar before but it doesn’t really melt well in the rice mixture. The Kraft jar cheese works great, but all the unpronounceable ingredients in it freak me out too much, so I stick with the cheddar.
Go to your local pantry or soup kitchen, dont be surprised if you see weird packaged foods with govt department of this and that label on that. Now we know where they come from
@@pinkpugginz its packaged very similar to Velveeta but its a little different. Velveeta is a Processed Cheese Product where government cheese is a little higher quality. It's got more of a hard cheese smell like a cheddar but melts like American because of its high milk content. But Velveeta is about as close a comparison as can be found outside of a food bank or food pantry program. LMAO a good way to market would be "Velveeta Private Reserve"
There's a lot of stuff under your feet. Miles and miles of underground limestone quarries now serve as long term storage for documents, data, cheese, other foodstuffs, etc.
This is where I would go when we finally get the zombie apocalypse we've all been promised. Hope there's a wine cellar down there too. Love your work my Irish friend
Cheese fun fact: British monarchs are the biggest fans of Cheddar cheese. King Henry II bought over 10,000, King Charles I preordered many wheels in the 1700s, and in 1840, Queen Victoria received a massive over a half-ton wheel as a wedding gift! A group of farmers from Somerset combined the milk of 750 cows to make a giant Cheddar wheel weighing a barely believable 11 hundredweight. Even Queen Victoria, famed for her hearty appetite, was reputedly unable to finish this enormous offering Been in love with cheese ever since I grew up in Switzerland. And I can't blame the Americans either.
I remember when they were freely giving away blocks of cheese, some people would get them and give them to my family, we had five boys my mum and dad. We wound up eating a lot of grilled cheeses sandwiches and macaroni and cheese. We weren't poor, but weren't well off either.
The Gov't Cheese program actually had regional variations. In places with a cheese industry, dairy plants could send cheese directly to locals and cut out the transport and storage entirely. Which is how I grew up on Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar in 5lb blocks for free, delivered weekly.
You can almost hear the "Hey boss we're preaching against the saturated fat right?" "Yup" "Cheese has a lot right?" "Yup" "We're giving that out right?" "Yup"
My grandma got government benefits and I remember eating government cheese, bread, and, I believe, peanut butter. I was not very fun to visit her, at least as far as food went.
Durring covid part of my old job as a facility manager for an apartment complex was to give out boxes of government food, they included, 2 pounds of cheese, I gallon of milk or yogurt, 2 12 packs of hotdogs and a loaf of bread. A perk of this job was every week I go a box to take home, I had so much dairy in my fridge I had no space for it at the end of the month
Back in the 90's. I would pick up 40+K pounds of butter from Nabisco in Denison, TX. I took the butter to the Caves, north of Kansas City. It's quite an experience to drive a stretch Peterbilt with a 53' trailer. Thank You for the recalled memories.
HOLY SHIT YOU DID IT! You mentioned the Springfield underground, and yes i know of that. In fact i drive a semi for a company that goes there. AND THEN YOU SHOWED IT! PRIME INC! Of course i dont go there because im on the flatbed side. Still exciting to see the company i drive for on a qxir video.
@@tynj4173 not me. That would be the refrigerated division. I enjoy being on the flatbed division. Its legitly only a couple of miles from hq tho, and the reefer guys go there all the time.
That's just under 3 miles from me! I told my kids I'm going to start digging a tunnel from under my house and connect to the existing tunnels and caves under the town and to the Underground 😈.
I have been binge watching every episode/video and I am running out of videos to watch lol. I really like your humor and topics. I really wanted to say your content is awesome!! Idk if you are able to live off of what you make from your channel. But please keep videos coming and I tell everyone I know to watch you (all three of them) and hopefully they tell all 3 of ..... umm all 2 of them!! No but seriously thank you for all of your content. I am hoping to join your channel but as sad as this is to say. I literally can't afford to since my premium membership expired and Uber is my only income. Lol sorry to ramble on and on. Thank you for making my week/day better every time you upload!! It's awesome to know that other people are interested in the same topics as I am!!!! I have tried to edit and upload videos but I have 1 iPhone 8 and some 💩 head decided they needed my MacBook more then I did. But you have inspired me to try and learn how to become a content creator!!!!! Sorry for rambling on and on but I hope you know you have mad my days and weeks soo much better!!!!
I live in Springfield, MO and have worked as a temporary worker in the Springfield Underground in the past. The cave complex is quite enormous in its size so big that trains drive through its many entrances and out another. The cheese operation is only one government presence down there. There are also secret computer and networking systems, cryogenic storage, science laboratories, and at one time was used for stockpiling that "other" government thing you referred to, nuclear weapons.
You have helped me to explain a lifelong mystery, and I am 72 years old. I can remember when for decades when you bought a hamburger at a hamburger stand, that you had to special order cheese (yechh no one did that) on your burger. In fact, I can remember when you couldn;t even GET cheese on your hamburger. Then, all of a sudden, you couldn't get a hamburger WITHOUT cheese on it. You had to special order a burger without cheese. And even now, you can't even get a burger WITHOUT cheese on it at some hamburger places. 🤣
@@sexygeek8996 It always irks my hide how much restaurants charge for toppings. Like you said - an extra buck for a slice of cheese is insane. Or $1.50 for a 1/4 of an avocado. It pisses me off how greedy they are.
I went to a mexican restaurant in the USA and asked about the great cheese they served. I shit you not, the waiter brought out a block like you showed that said "to not be sold" and said "this is it".
I delivered to restaurants for years and learned a few things. Love the cheese dip at Mexican restaurants? ? Go to the deli at your local store and get a block of white American. Cut some chunks off and put it in a ramiken. Slightly melt it in a microwave and then add a little milk then stir. Keep adding a little milk, heating and stirring untill the correct consistency. Add jalapeño to taste. Exactly what they do except they don't use a microwave. Every one I delivered to used "Extra Melt" white American cheese.
My husband is a truck driver and we've been in the cheese caves in Missouri many times and they are insane. Semi's with 52' trailers driving around under these massive caves.
I live near the "Cheese Mines" in Missouri. My family has always joked that after the apocalypse we would storm the mines and rule the midwest with cheese. Rumor is that the tunnels run from Springfield to Carthage.
Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded? All that was left was de-Brie Much inventory was lost, it caused a _sharp_ increase in prices. The insurance company had to fork over a lot of _Cheddar._ At first, investigators didn't know _Jack_ but with some _Gouda_ detective work they traced the perpetrator to _Philadelphia._ They knew a Swiss had something to do with it, their alibi was _full of holes_ I know it's cheesy, but I thought this was _grate_
Yes I herd about that caper. Churns out the perp was nat-cho average criminal, he was a natural. Once he was just a blue collar worker, a chip off the old block, some say he broke the mold..
I once worked as a volunteer with poor families. To get your cheese, and benefits, there is a lot of PAPERWORK you have to get through. Which for poor people with poor educations, or little English, is why they need help. Well, it's not just CHEESE. One time stopping to drop off some papers, the government was giving out CHICKENS (dead ones). Whole chickens. Which not everyone had the facilities to cook, or even knew how to cook. The nice Puerto Ricans in the area, made huge pats of the best chicken and rice (people donate rice a lot to charity kitchens as it's fairly cheap). The volunteers bought the spices, and everyone ate well. But you never know what the government is going to give out.
They stopped giving cheese in my neck of the woods probably about thirty years ago now. I have no clue which, if any, states get it. I've never heard anyone say they dislike it and in fact it's quite the opposite as nearly all who've had it remember it fondly like a cherished moment wistfully pulled from memories of yesteryear...sigh.....
Having had my fair share of that free cheese in my younger days (my kids and I ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches) I can say it wasn't all that bad. A bit on the salty side but overall it made for a good sandwich or cheese sauce base.
I was a truck driver, and I have delivered a few different thing into a few undergrounds warehouses. I have delivered cheese, but they also store Archives, and old movie films.
I definitely remember in the 1970's when I was a kid, we got free huge blocks of government cheese and it was GOOD cheese. We made cheese sandwiches all the time, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese quesadilllas, and all kinds of other things that were so good. That cheese was high quality. We also got free powdered milk, canned meats, and government blocks of butter. It was all very good. We were quite poor so we got resupply of this stuff every month and we loved it. It sure saved my mother from having to worry so much about where our next meal was coming from. So this government cheese give away along with the other foods was a good thing. 😃
@@waynek3366 My mother received Food Stamps, but it wasn't much, especially when she was trying to feed five children. The Food Stamp program began in 1939 and had expanded and become permanent in 1964. So in the late 1960's and early 1970's when I was a kid, the FS program was something that helped and was meant as a supplement to the low income of families. The government cheese and dairy foods giveaway was something that was part of the Food Stamp program. It definitely helped us. I've run onto a lot of people like your family and mine who got the cheese and other food products and it is something that I remember fondly. 😊
@@CivilEngineerWroxton My mom and I and siblings moved to California in 1972 that was the first time we reserved food assistance, I don't remember mom getting food stamps but we did get a food package of commodities and the government cheese was included and mom would make the best Mac and cheese. That was some rough times but mom made it work.
I remember free government cheese when I was a kid in the '70s. Our fridge seem to never run out of cheese or butter. I would snag a couple 10 cent Coca-Cola bottles from behind the grocery store. Cash them in and buy a loaf of bread. Go home and make grilled cheese sandwiches.
“When I say ‘American Society’, what’s the first word that comes to your mind?” Greedy corporations ripping off consumers. And cops shooting people for no reason.
I’ve been inside the Springfield Underground a few times, I’ve even seen inside one of the cheese vaults, never thought anything of it until I saw this since there are Kraft and Highland Dairy plants in the same town. Interesting.
I'm old enough to remember as a kid how my family grew up real poor. Not homeless but definitely did some dumpster diving before it became a thing. So the church would give out government food including giant blocks of yet to be sliced American cheese wrapped in clear plastic with no kind of logo at all. Like something from the "No-Frills" section of the supermarket. My favorite government food was canned beef. Had a white label with minimal print and no logo. As a kid I'd open up a can and fry it in a pan. No seasoning or anything but it had some fat that gave it some taste. Sometimes I would use to fulfill an otherwise "wish" sandwich: two bread slices with a slice of cheese and/or ketchup cuz I wished for some meat.
I was a kid during this time and I remember the cheese blocks they gave away. One correction though, you didn't have to be on welfare or anything, anyone could go get it. The cheese was incredibly good, everyone loved the stuff and as word got around, everyone was trying to get some of it. To this day, I'd buy that cheese if they would sell it to the public, but I don't know how they distribute it now. The stuff was awesome.
The amount of times I've seen this covered in my history class is too many to count, and now I'm learning it again through Qxir. When will I escape the cheese.
There was a similar program in place that supplied fallout shelters across the US with survival kits. During the Cold War, with the threat of nuclear war hanging over their heads, thousands of fallout shelters were built, either privately or in public facilities in what was called the Community Fallout Shelter program. Stocking those shelters came with several independent kits; Light colored, fiberboard barrels are 'Sanitation Kits'. Each contained, a commode seat, commode chemical pack, bag liners, toilet paper, hand cleaner, plastic gloves, water spout, napkins, paper cups, can opener, and twist ties. Rectangular metal cans were called 'Cracker Rations'. They had not just crackers but also bulgar wafers, and carbohydrate supplement hard candies. A third set was a metal, 17.5 gallon water barrels with extra plastic liners serving as water buffalos. The combination of kits was to supply a group of people a quart of water and 700 calories a day, the minimum for survival, for two weeks. There were other boxes created; radiation detection kit, medical kit, and a ventilation kit. Such kits can be clearly see in the 1978 film 'Dawn of the Dead' when the survivors enter the mall for the first time.
HEY QXIR have you ever thought of making an adult colouring book of some of your most memorable drawings? Cause I would buy one, and I think alot of others would too!! Just a thought. ☺️
My brother-in-law used to be a fireman in a bad section of town, here in a big city on the East Coast. He would have people coming into the firehouse all the time selling their free 5 lb blocks of cheddar for a buck. We had our fair share of it, and I remember it being pretty damn good. We even had to buy a slicer.
I remembered getting government cheese, peanut butter and butter. Wasn’t bad at all. Granted it was some artisan fancy cheese but it got the job down and it was better than nothing
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan don’t believe he’d care about you uppity opinion and he was stating how they had to make due and still enjoy what they could get.
Tried to tell some of my friends about this when we drove through Springfield MO and they thought I was crazy. Had to have them look it up so theyd believe me.
Also: If we're doing videos on wacky things the government stores, do one on Canada's Maple Syrup Storage. Actually I think you might have because I think you covered the heist of a bunch of it.
Any basement or cellar can easily be converted into a cheese cave. And cheesemakin is honestly a rly fun hobby that is mostly waitin and doin other things heh. A lot like brewin alcohol actually, as both need plenty of time to age for some of the best quality. Compared to brewin tho its much easier to get into cheesemakin bcuz its prty much just do all the work on day one and then wait for the cheese to age properly. Whereas most alcohol brewin takes multiple separate days of decreasin amounts of work.
I'm consistently embarrassed by how much more this kid in Ireland knows about my country than I do. In the 80s, when I was newly married and poor, we did avail ourselves of the government cheese (and yes, everyone really did call it that). It wasn't the tastiest thing; it was more like a really cheap Velveeta (it even came in the same size and shape packaging, as the video shows). But we were poor and it was food, so we goddam well ate it. I just never knew the story behind it. Thanks, kid in Ireland.
This should be a Gouda episode, let's talk cheddar about this topic. You did great explaining this topic, you didn't leave it full of holes like swiss cheese , any way you slice it this is a bureaucratic issue.
"You can't just pull a cow out your arse. You gotta pull a cow out of other cow's arses" is now my new favorite quote. I was sent this video during a conversation about the prices of food, and I think this is my new favorite channel. I love this sense of humour!
That would be me. I love cheese and I am lactose intolerant! Every now and then, I would get a hankering for it, and I'd accept the sacrifice of belly aches and diarrhea.
My mom worked for a clinic that served poor people in the 80's and they distributed this cheese from the Department of Agriculture. They had so much that the nurses took the surplus home rather than letting them spoil. (They dropped off the cheese, but there were no refrigerators for it.) It was pretty good, but drier than typical American cheese. That box lasted a long time, too.
Been to those caves, my father sometimes receives cheese deliveries in Missouri. Nice mist inside, the echo of the truck idle is relaxing. No internet connection inside the cave.
(3:37) Yes. THIS is what it looks like. Somehow in the 90s I came into possession of one of these lovely rectangular blocks of U.S. government cheese. When I finally got the courage to open it and try it... Well... Let's just say you aren't missing anything. In fact, never EVER think that poor people are getting something actually good tasting. I imagine that being in a starving condition just might help its palatability, though. They say that a drowning man will grab the edge of a sword. To that I say that a starving man will eat a block of government cheese. Make of that what you will. 😉 EDIT: I must add that I am a bit of a cheese snob. I know there are people out there who have fond memories of all kinds of heavily processed food. To them I say, by all means, don't let me stop you from enjoying it. 😉
Naw youre right, that cheese was not good. It was unsalted, unflavoured, and made with one goal in mind; to preserve the milk as fast as possible and as cheaply as possible. Ofc that means the cheese quality is gonna be wretched. Tho if you cud get the cheese to melt and added some seasonings to it then yea, it cud be made palatable. Actually, thats why folks generally say they like grilled cheese with govt cheese; bcuz the bulk of the flavour there is actually from the tomato soup ofc that you dip the grilled cheese in. And yeah, as the other commenter suggested... Sometimes it just wudnt melt. Theres a lot of reasons behind this, but if ya got one like that... Rly the only good use for it was grilled cheese. It wud at least cook into the bread a little and while not rly melted, it wud become more palatable that way as opposed to raw and uncooked or cooked open faced where it wud just burn.
I have it in my fridge now. It's not any worse than the cheese McDonald's uses in their burgers. It's food. Go through a war and you learn to appreciate sustenance.
I had a 1 inch cube of government cheese when I was little, at a friend's house. It wasn't cheese, it was "cheese, I guess." 7/10. Rest in peace Trevor, you were cool before you started hanging out with the hoodie kids who listened to crime music over shitty phone speakers under the bleachers. Thanks for the subsidized dairy block.
I ate some of that cheese as a kid. I remember that packaging you showed. I was very young, but I do remember waiting in a long line inside what looked like a grocery store without shelves but with food all over long tables. And we got this and gray cardboard cans of peanut butter and similar. A food bank, I presume in hindsight.
Not sure why or how I spelled "reserve" like that lol
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Cheesus this was a good one 🧀
Here in Canada, we have honest to god maple syrup reserves. There was a big thing in the news where somebody somehow stole (and sold) millions of dollars of maple syrup before this was found out about. Most syrup you buy at the store is just sugar water with maple flavouring. The real stuff costs like $30 a bottle. It's not cheap. But I have no idea why Canada needs to have a stockpile of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist I figured this would make a great video. But I'm sure you've got a huge list of topics you want to do. So it's your call. I'm just throwing it out there. Cheers.
Considering cheese and grits form a complete diet, where are the grits stored ?
You can also play paintball in those same caves.
I’m an American and I’ll say that the cheese is there to keep Charles Entertainment Cheese satiated, lest he develop a taste for human flesh and escape containment.
Love this comment
Wait, he's still around? I thought Covid was the final nail in his coffin that finally killed him off as both home and mobile gaming pretty much destroyed the only real reason to go to his establishment. I mean people definitely weren't going there for his pizza.
bro used his government name too
Gotta keep Charles happy. He knows people. Him being The Godfather of child casinos and all.
Given the heart react by Qxir, its clear this is the truth.
It's crazy to think about some of the bizarre things the US government does
You mean like giving quails cocaine to see how they react while having sex
Not that crazy
Yeah, like when they colonized Liberia
@@joshdavis5991 or Waco
One could argue everything the government does is crazy....
"Welfare Cheese" was a big cultural thing for many working class Americans in the past including my mom growing up. There's even recipes specifically centered around it.
My dad bought a wheel of cheese with his first pay check in the late 50s.
Yep, that cheese was very good and we got lots of it back in the 70's when I was a kid. We loved it and made all kinds of good stuff with it.
Government cheese was some great stuff! I only had it for a couple of years when my dad landed on a good union job. For the cheese snobs, cheese from Uncle Sam was designed for cooking with other dishes which meant heating it to melt that gave its distinctive great taste, not to be eaten by itself.
In Living Color had a bit about that back in the day "mama don't take that government cheese!"
@@jensimaster 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that was classic! I miss that show
I ate lots of Government Cheese as a kid. I even remember that box. It actually made pretty good grilled cheese sandwiches. As a young kid it actually tasted good throw between two slices of bread with some tangy Miracle Whip and was good. It was for a short amount of time we got this cheese but with a loaf of bread and the electric bill paid those grilled cheese sandwiches helped the family out a lot.
I guess you needed Butter/Margarine to fry it up also.
I too made a lot of great grilled cheese sandwiches with that exact cheese. The simple labels on the box.
It did taste good to me. Been 30 years since I have had any of that government cheese. I would love to have a block of it just to have a taste of Nostalgia.
Growing up as a teenager in the Reagan years, I remember the "Government Cheese" even if my family never qualified or had need of the help. BUT senior citizens *did* qualify to receive the cheese mostly regardless of whether or not they needed it (based on income). Here is where my Grandma living in Dolton, IL (So. border town w/ Chicago; a working-class town) surprised us and reminded us of what a good neighbor was. Grandma was not wealthy but lived in the same house she had since 1943. A Widow since '83 when Grandpa had passed, and in her 70's when Reagan took office, Grandma remembered always what it was like living and raising 3 children through the depression, when she had known hunger but did her best to make sure her kids did not. When she found out that she qualified for the surplus (iirc) 5lb heavy-foiled blocks of cheese, but that her neighbor next door who was a single, working mother of two young daughters DID NOT QUALIFY(!)...she queued up at the Dolton Firehouse just behind her alley (and a short walk), to get her cheese. In that line Grandma found many of her own peers; decently provided for working-class/middle-class retired Seniors who were lining up to "Get their cheese"---not for themselves, but for others. My Gram's neighbor had remarked that the "Government Cheese" was her Daughters' favorite for making grilled cheese---it tasted the best! ------ The U.S. Government has my ongoing, blanket support for buying & stockpiling all the &^%$#@ cheese it wants to!
holy shit i can’t believe it. my grandfather was a semi truck driver and, being from wisconsin, he delivered primarily large amounts of cheese. i used to ride with him on his trips sometimes and thats what leads me to say…. IVE BEEN INSIDE OF THAT CAVE. My grandpa and i used to kick rocks down some of the tunnels. the place is crazy huge inside and very cold and dark. never thought i’d see a picture from inside there in a youtube video. cheers
Finally, someone that can provide insider info for my cheese heist
A fellow cheesehead.
please tell me you got cheese.
did you ever wonder or ask him why cheese was being stockpiled inside of a cave?
Don't fuck with the Wisconsin Cheezlers.
Actually, regarding the last point about "... a lot of it going to waste...", not as much as you'd think. When a wheel of govt. cheese is close to going off (which takes a lot longer thanks to the extra processing in its manufacture and the storage conditions in the underground vaults that are ideal for cheese longevity), the wheel is taken off the shelf and combined with thousands of other similarly close-to-expiration cheese wheels. They're all melted down together, repasteurized, and sold on the open market through corporations like Kraft as "Processed American Cheese Food Product". Yes, those familiar individually wrapped slices of generic yellow stuff every American has put on their kid's bologna sandwiches and cook-out burgers since time immemorial are actually the recycled excess from the Government Cheese Vaults. That also explains the taste; it's the result of dozens of different varieties of cheese all being melted down and mixed together, because when you've got tons of close-to-expiring cheese to get rid of, you can't necessarily wait to separate them by type and taste, you just throw them all in the industrial fondue pot. The end result is a generic cheese that tastes... eh, good enough.
This is actually a surprise to me because those individually wrapped American cheese slices are fairly nice and government cheese is disgusting
This is actually a surprise to me because yet again the American government decided not to throw it all in the ocean
this is one of those facts on the internet that i struggle to believe but also refuse to fact check because goddammit, i _want_ american cheese to be resuscitated government cave cheese.
Holy 💩! 🤮
@@kavalogue You might just not like the taste of the gov't
They're building another moon
😆👍🏻🌜
Didn't ask
@@JDBajaBlast Well then you don't get the reference, scrub. :3
those son of a bitches
@don't be surprised no
"You give the meanest white guy a piece of cheese and he turn into Mr. Rogers" -Robert Jebediah Freeman
Never knew about the stockpile, but I remember eating government cheese in the 80's. It tasted and looked like Velveeta, which isn't actually cheese but a vegetable protein product, so I always assumed that is what government cheese really was. Strangely, I got a lot of government rations growing up because my parents pulled them from dumpsters after the "people in need" took the canned ham from the box and tossed the rest (not faulting my parents, I'd do the same to this day because I'm cheap).
just discovered the beauty of r/frugal, dumpster diving and get much cheap discounts and saving is like satisfying challenge. how can i get this govt cheese? last time during covid there was a lot of food packages/pantries giveaways
@@disunityholychaos7523 Your syntax is somewhat broken but I believe I understand what you are saying. It sounds like you scavenge like myself. That makes up a 3rd of my income despite having multiple college degrees. There is no reason to be shameful of scavenging.
@@disunityholychaos7523 I do try to leave pantries alone at this point in my life... I'm not starving and other people are. As long as the pantry isn't religious oriented, I make huge donations as long as I can afford it.
That’s what happens to me! They give me lots and lots of fruit and vegetables! A lot live on fast food that takes stamps
velveeta is so freaking gross
As a professional cheese consumer, the knowledge that there is a cave stocked full of the stuff gives me some ideas..
Cheese Heist?
and probably a bit of gas too?
@@RebelSynth you son of a bitch, I’m in
Murican Chez
Yeah, I'm in.
Mid 1970’s, temporarily out of work, I wanted some government cheese.
I went to the government cheese place.
I filled out some forms, stood in line to receive my cheese.
The lady behind the desk told me I didn’t qualify because, owning my home, I did not pay rent or a mortgage payment, even though I was out of work.
I asked, “Are you telling me ‘that’s not-cho cheese?’” (Nacho Cheese Doritos were a new thing then.)
She laughed at that, said she wasn’t supposed to do it but handed me a brick of cheese anyway.
I liked that cheese. I’d buy some today if I could.
Hahaha your pun earned you that cheese. Good on you.
This reads like a lost verse of Alice's Restaurant, and I love it.
@@MicrowavedAlastair5390 27 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one…
That's so cheesy
@@coyotefoxtrot2832 The Cheese Sketch: ruclips.net/video/Hz1JWzyvv8A/видео.html
"It ain't easy being cheesy."- U.S. Government, probably.
I used to be in the US Military, so I can confirm that this is true.
I shot a man to death. I can confirm this is true.
@JJScotty Navy
@JJScottythey called me the chief of cheese back in nam
Lt Crackers reporting for duty sir!
I love how I learn about the USA from an Irishman!
Your comedic animations are gold!
My dad was a trucker and we went to the caves in Springfield Missouri, I only went a few times but it’s cool to be reminded of it thank qxir
Grilled government cheese sandwiches were actually pretty good back in the day. Especially with tomato soup.
Made with government tomatoes?
@@ErikNilsen1337 no just gourmet
No they are not. It was shite
Back in the day??!
It's still a staple meal for me in the fall and winter months 🤣🤣
@@fal2218 oh .. you're the one that's obsessed with the St Patty's Battalion...
You should probably move on
Still astonished that after almost five years on this site, you still don't have a million subs. This platform's so lackluster when it comes to promoting genuinely creative, artistic users like you, Qxir. Never change!
you're begging for his attention
@@badmonkey2468 No, I just like his content. Don’t be petty.
To get Qxir's attention, may I recommend not subscribing? Non-subscribers can enjoy an extra bit of recognition at the end of his videos with (usually subtle) threats of violence.
@@kgniku503 I literally don't care about 'getting his attention.' I'm just acknowledging that he's a great, underappreciated creator.
He got 1 mill subs alr@@kevjohn96
Qxir. You took time to draw a man with his arms elbow deep into a cows canal. I respect like never before. Truly one of the RUclipsrs of all time.
If someone woke me up in the middle of the night and forced me to pick a favorite RUclips creator.. I'd scream *QXIR* .. don't hurt me, definitely QXIR!!! Put the machete down, Sir... please.. . . .
He's like a Klondike bar. I drop everything I'm doing when he uploads. What wouldn't I do to watch this content I never knew I wanted to know about?! Unimaginable things......
And just so happen to have the very same govt cheese - rectangular box shown towards the end - in the fridge, origins of which were a mystery until an Irish gentleman explained. Life's funny like that.
My dad had to turn a calf once so it could be born. He was in quite a ways.
@@imperfectlump6070
My grandpa did that with a stillborn calf too... cut it in pieces inside and the cow survived & had more babies. He was born in 1900 died 1980. Knew everything..self educated. Saved a village from Nazis in WW2 by blowing up a bridge using homemade explosive (no idea what, but it worked). Ppl used to know all sorts of things.. they had to. Especially in times when average lifespan was only about 30-40 years. I'm still amazed how they managed to know so much in such a short life. We're getting progressively dumber with bestest tech humanity invented.
🐄 🤛
I was going to comment on that, I enjoy the splatter on the gloves. Attention to detail.
"One of the youtubers of all time.."
One of the most common phrases of YT comments. Pathetic.
My kids and I lived on government cheese, milk powder, and actually ham too. We got it for a whole year, and we loved it. I was so thankful to have it! But I never knew until now the whole story behind it.
that's actually a nice story. kudos to the people who decided to give it to those who need it. Keep on cheesing
I’m pretty sure “Guvment Cheese” is still around for those wondering. It’s usually given through food aid programs in many states. By itself, It’s not really incredible taste wise, but if used to make Mac n’ Cheese or other cheese dishes, it’s high milk content make it really creamy and smooth. My grandmother used to seek it out and buy it from some of the poorer families in her neighborhood in order to use it in various dishes. She would usually the. Bring them back a massive bowl of whatever she made as well as purchasing the cheese from them outright. I would compare it to something like the bricks of Velveeta cheese, as it wasn’t hard cheese like cheddar it was usually in the “American cheese” style at least that’s how I always saw it.
I’ve been going to my local food pantry for the last couple of years and sadly we don’t get any government cheese. 😢 I’m in So. Cal. It would be perfect to use in my vegetarian Italian stuffed bell peppers! I’ve used cheddar before but it doesn’t really melt well in the rice mixture. The Kraft jar cheese works great, but all the unpronounceable ingredients in it freak me out too much, so I stick with the cheddar.
Go to your local pantry or soup kitchen, dont be surprised if you see weird packaged foods with govt department of this and that label on that. Now we know where they come from
you mean velveeta
@@pinkpugginz its packaged very similar to Velveeta but its a little different. Velveeta is a Processed Cheese Product where government cheese is a little higher quality. It's got more of a hard cheese smell like a cheddar but melts like American because of its high milk content. But Velveeta is about as close a comparison as can be found outside of a food bank or food pantry program. LMAO a good way to market would be "Velveeta Private Reserve"
Velveeta is just a lump of cheese-flavored oil.
Troyer cheese is where it's at.
I've lived in Springfield Missouri my entire life, nearly 21 years, and it wasn't until recently that I learned about all of the cheese under my feet.
No fear of zombie apocalypse for you!
There's a lot of stuff under your feet. Miles and miles of underground limestone quarries now serve as long term storage for documents, data, cheese, other foodstuffs, etc.
There's a cheesy feet joke there
You must now preform the sacrifices duty of guarding it with your life from any cheese thieves, for it is your destiny
(camera pans down to reveal two wheels of cheese that are duct-taped to feet)
Quick Gromit, get the van! There's millions pounds of cheese to be grabbed!
The Great Cheese Heist
Gromit! We forgot the crackers!
The cheese caves are reportedly guarded by hostile cheese dwarves. Or so I've heard. Carry on, Qxir. Love the content all the way in NYC!
This is where I would go when we finally get the zombie apocalypse we've all been promised.
Hope there's a wine cellar down there too.
Love your work my Irish friend
Cheese fun fact: British monarchs are the biggest fans of Cheddar cheese. King Henry II bought over 10,000, King Charles I preordered many wheels in the 1700s, and in 1840, Queen Victoria received a massive over a half-ton wheel as a wedding gift! A group of farmers from Somerset combined the milk of 750 cows to make a giant Cheddar wheel weighing a barely believable 11 hundredweight. Even Queen Victoria, famed for her hearty appetite, was reputedly unable to finish this enormous offering
Been in love with cheese ever since I grew up in Switzerland. And I can't blame the Americans either.
never expected to get cheese facts from a north korean dictator but here we are. cheers, i guess.
For a second I actually thought the Switzerland thing was a mask off moment, then I remembered that Kim really did grow up in Switzerland. Impressive.
@@cultistexe535
Didn’t know Kim Jong-un grew up in Switzerland either
@@bruhbruh-us6gl He went to a private college there.
> since I grew up in Switzerland
Hello Kim
Friend told me about this recently. Glad you're uploading about it
Did not aso
I remember when they were freely giving away blocks of cheese, some people would get them and give them to my family, we had five boys my mum and dad. We wound up eating a lot of grilled cheeses sandwiches and macaroni and cheese. We weren't poor, but weren't well off either.
Crazy that Sheogorath runs the government.
I've been living off cheese in these caves for over 10 years now. I only came out to get service quick.
The Gov't Cheese program actually had regional variations. In places with a cheese industry, dairy plants could send cheese directly to locals and cut out the transport and storage entirely. Which is how I grew up on Cabot Extra Sharp Cheddar in 5lb blocks for free, delivered weekly.
Damn, wish I could get free cheese
You lucky bastard.
Cabot Extra Sharp 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
😋 5lb/week sounds a bit too much though ...
@@Sagittarius-A-Star It was for a family of 5.
You can almost hear the "Hey boss we're preaching against the saturated fat right?"
"Yup"
"Cheese has a lot right?"
"Yup"
"We're giving that out right?"
"Yup"
The "fat right"? Is that a political slur?
@@geoffreypiltz271 He means they’re preaching against fat
Except fat isn't unhealthy. Watch this video: Saturated Fat Does NOT Cause Heart Disease?! New Study
It's the Velveeta that will kill ya.
My grandma got government benefits and I remember eating government cheese, bread, and, I believe, peanut butter. I was not very fun to visit her, at least as far as food went.
Those 3 together are actually a decent combo. Toss some canned mandarin orange segments on there and, baby, you got a bomb sammie
@@ajsparx4133 , uhm, I just threw up on my keyboard. You owe me a keyboard, and your mouth an apology. 😂🤣😂
Durring covid part of my old job as a facility manager for an apartment complex was to give out boxes of government food, they included, 2 pounds of cheese, I gallon of milk or yogurt, 2 12 packs of hotdogs and a loaf of bread. A perk of this job was every week I go a box to take home, I had so much dairy in my fridge I had no space for it at the end of the month
Back in the 90's.
I would pick up 40+K pounds of butter from Nabisco in Denison, TX.
I took the butter to the Caves, north of Kansas City.
It's quite an experience to drive a stretch Peterbilt with a 53' trailer.
Thank You for the recalled memories.
HOLY SHIT YOU DID IT! You mentioned the Springfield underground, and yes i know of that. In fact i drive a semi for a company that goes there. AND THEN YOU SHOWED IT! PRIME INC! Of course i dont go there because im on the flatbed side. Still exciting to see the company i drive for on a qxir video.
Nobody wants to know about where your semi goes😆
@@tynj4173 not me. That would be the refrigerated division. I enjoy being on the flatbed division. Its legitly only a couple of miles from hq tho, and the reefer guys go there all the time.
That's pretty fucking cool
That's just under 3 miles from me! I told my kids I'm going to start digging a tunnel from under my house and connect to the existing tunnels and caves under the town and to the Underground 😈.
I have been binge watching every episode/video and I am running out of videos to watch lol. I really like your humor and topics. I really wanted to say your content is awesome!! Idk if you are able to live off of what you make from your channel. But please keep videos coming and I tell everyone I know to watch you (all three of them) and hopefully they tell all 3 of ..... umm all 2 of them!! No but seriously thank you for all of your content. I am hoping to join your channel but as sad as this is to say. I literally can't afford to since my premium membership expired and Uber is my only income. Lol sorry to ramble on and on. Thank you for making my week/day better every time you upload!! It's awesome to know that other people are interested in the same topics as I am!!!! I have tried to edit and upload videos but I have 1 iPhone 8 and some 💩 head decided they needed my MacBook more then I did. But you have inspired me to try and learn how to become a content creator!!!!! Sorry for rambling on and on but I hope you know you have mad my days and weeks soo much better!!!!
Thank you for the support - the only failure is giving up, so keep pushing!
I used to deliver to the one in Springfield mo. That place is massive and they hord everything you can think of. Not just cheese
I live in Springfield, MO and have worked as a temporary worker in the Springfield Underground in the past. The cave complex is quite enormous in its size so big that trains drive through its many entrances and out another. The cheese operation is only one government presence down there. There are also secret computer and networking systems, cryogenic storage, science laboratories, and at one time was used for stockpiling that "other" government thing you referred to, nuclear weapons.
I have always wanted to see the Underground.
I've heard stories about certain areas that are constantly guard by unmarked dudes with ARs
Why wouldn’t they just keep the nukes at Whiteman AFB?
Aliens, nuclear weapons, cheese and Walt Disney's corpse. It's why I call Missoura home.
You have helped me to explain a lifelong mystery, and I am 72 years old. I can remember when for decades when you bought a hamburger at a hamburger stand, that you had to special order cheese (yechh no one did that) on your burger. In fact, I can remember when you couldn;t even GET cheese on your hamburger. Then, all of a sudden, you couldn't get a hamburger WITHOUT cheese on it. You had to special order a burger without cheese. And even now, you can't even get a burger WITHOUT cheese on it at some hamburger places. 🤣
Many burger places here charge an extra dollar for a thin slice of mediocre cheese. Skipping the cheese is no problem in those places.
I can't believe there was a time before cheeseburgers.
My God.
@@cat_city2009 😄
@@sexygeek8996
It always irks my hide how much restaurants charge for toppings. Like you said - an extra buck for a slice of cheese is insane. Or $1.50 for a 1/4 of an avocado. It pisses me off how greedy they are.
@@cat_city2009 lol
I went to a mexican restaurant in the USA and asked about the great cheese they served. I shit you not, the waiter brought out a block like you showed that said "to not be sold" and said "this is it".
Sounds like authentic Mexican.
Esto es wey
More like "esto es WHEY" amirite?
Queso Americano.
I delivered to restaurants for years and learned a few things. Love the cheese dip at Mexican restaurants? ? Go to the deli at your local store and get a block of white American. Cut some chunks off and put it in a ramiken. Slightly melt it in a microwave and then add a little milk then stir. Keep adding a little milk, heating and stirring untill the correct consistency. Add jalapeño to taste. Exactly what they do except they don't use a microwave. Every one I delivered to used "Extra Melt" white American cheese.
My father in law talks about that cheese all the time. Says it was the best cheese he ever had.
My husband is a truck driver and we've been in the cheese caves in Missouri many times and they are insane. Semi's with 52' trailers driving around under these massive caves.
I live near the "Cheese Mines" in Missouri. My family has always joked that after the apocalypse we would storm the mines and rule the midwest with cheese. Rumor is that the tunnels run from Springfield to Carthage.
Did you hear about the cheese factory that exploded? All that was left was de-Brie
Much inventory was lost, it caused a _sharp_ increase in prices. The insurance company had to fork over a lot of _Cheddar._ At first, investigators didn't know _Jack_ but with some _Gouda_ detective work they traced the perpetrator to _Philadelphia._ They knew a Swiss had something to do with it, their alibi was _full of holes_
I know it's cheesy, but I thought this was _grate_
havarti is gouda but edam it's no cheddar.
Yes I herd about that caper. Churns out the perp was nat-cho average criminal, he was a natural.
Once he was just a blue collar worker, a chip off the old block, some say he broke the mold..
How dair-yee not mention the Dutch in your cheesy story! 🇳🇱
👏 👏
I'm allergic to dairy but such a tragedy still makes me feel bleu.
love seeing this update in my notifications! keep up the great work Qxir!
Litterally did not ask
I was a truck driver and the cheese cave in Springfield, MO is cool as hell it was always a job driving thru the cave in a 18 wheeler
Fun Fact: there have been at least 3 punk rock bands called "Government Cheese" and at least 1 called "Free Cheese."
Sorry for being cheesy, but this was a very guda video.
Qxir: "..oh God.. maybe I'M an American..?"
Merica: "The gun you don't have, isn't big enough.."
I once worked as a volunteer with poor families. To get your cheese, and benefits, there is a lot of PAPERWORK you have to get through. Which for poor people with poor educations, or little English, is why they need help. Well, it's not just CHEESE. One time stopping to drop off some papers, the government was giving out CHICKENS (dead ones). Whole chickens. Which not everyone had the facilities to cook, or even knew how to cook. The nice Puerto Ricans in the area, made huge pats of the best chicken and rice (people donate rice a lot to charity kitchens as it's fairly cheap). The volunteers bought the spices, and everyone ate well. But you never know what the government is going to give out.
They stopped giving cheese in my neck of the woods probably about thirty years ago now. I have no clue which, if any, states get it. I've never heard anyone say they dislike it and in fact it's quite the opposite as nearly all who've had it remember it fondly like a cherished moment wistfully pulled from memories of yesteryear...sigh.....
Your FREESE pun on the sign had me rolling
4:38 The expressions you give your characters is getting so much better, not that they were bad. But they're so good, especially this one
They actually give the cheese to the mole people as a peace offering. Keeps them from coming to the surface and wreaking havoc.
😂
Having had my fair share of that free cheese in my younger days (my kids and I ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches) I can say it wasn't all that bad. A bit on the salty side but overall it made for a good sandwich or cheese sauce base.
I was a truck driver, and I have delivered a few different thing into a few undergrounds warehouses. I have delivered cheese, but they also store Archives, and old movie films.
Cheese is an excellent emergency ration. It keeps forever as long as the conditions are right, and its very filling and calorie dense.
I was just joking around earlier today about Russia having potato caves and now i find out we have cheese caves lol
So does that make Alaska Cheese and Potato Pieland?
@@b8nnytez lol
I remember our family getting huge blocks of gov't cheese back in the late 70's and early 80's, and we were middle class farmers. It was good cheese!
I definitely remember in the 1970's when I was a kid, we got free huge blocks of government cheese and it was GOOD cheese. We made cheese sandwiches all the time, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese quesadilllas, and all kinds of other things that were so good. That cheese was high quality.
We also got free powdered milk, canned meats, and government blocks of butter. It was all very good. We were quite poor so we got resupply of this stuff every month and we loved it. It sure saved my mother from having to worry so much about where our next meal was coming from. So this government cheese give away along with the other foods was a good thing. 😃
Sounds like you lived in my household when I was a kids.
This was before Food stamps I believe.
@@waynek3366 My mother received Food Stamps, but it wasn't much, especially when she was trying to feed five children.
The Food Stamp program began in 1939 and had expanded and become permanent in 1964. So in the late 1960's and early 1970's when I was a kid, the FS program was something that helped and was meant as a supplement to the low income of families. The government cheese and dairy foods giveaway was something that was part of the Food Stamp program. It definitely helped us. I've run onto a lot of people like your family and mine who got the cheese and other food products and it is something that I remember fondly. 😊
@@CivilEngineerWroxton
My mom and I and siblings moved to California in 1972 that was the first time we reserved food assistance, I don't remember mom getting food stamps but we did get a food package of commodities and the government cheese was included and mom would make the best Mac and cheese.
That was some rough times but mom made it work.
I remember free government cheese when I was a kid in the '70s. Our fridge seem to never run out of cheese or butter. I would snag a couple 10 cent Coca-Cola bottles from behind the grocery store. Cash them in and buy a loaf of bread. Go home and make grilled cheese sandwiches.
Government cheese was a staple in school cafeterias and Boy Scouts. It rocked and they also had government peanut butter .
I remember us getting the “Government Cheese” when I was a kid. Cheese sandwiches was what we lived on, lol.
“When I say ‘American Society’, what’s the first word that comes to your mind?”
Nixon
“Yeah, it wasn’t ‘empathy’”
“When I say ‘American Society’, what’s the first word that comes to your mind?”
Greedy corporations ripping off consumers. And cops shooting people for no reason.
I’ve been inside the Springfield Underground a few times, I’ve even seen inside one of the cheese vaults, never thought anything of it until I saw this since there are Kraft and Highland Dairy plants in the same town. Interesting.
I'm old enough to remember as a kid how my family grew up real poor. Not homeless but definitely did some dumpster diving before it became a thing. So the church would give out government food including giant blocks of yet to be sliced American cheese wrapped in clear plastic with no kind of logo at all. Like something from the "No-Frills" section of the supermarket. My favorite government food was canned beef. Had a white label with minimal print and no logo. As a kid I'd open up a can and fry it in a pan. No seasoning or anything but it had some fat that gave it some taste. Sometimes I would use to fulfill an otherwise "wish" sandwich: two bread slices with a slice of cheese and/or ketchup cuz I wished for some meat.
I was a kid during this time and I remember the cheese blocks they gave away. One correction though, you didn't have to be on welfare or anything, anyone could go get it.
The cheese was incredibly good, everyone loved the stuff and as word got around, everyone was trying to get some of it. To this day, I'd buy that cheese if they would sell it to the public, but I don't know how they distribute it now. The stuff was awesome.
The amount of times I've seen this covered in my history class is too many to count, and now I'm learning it again through Qxir. When will I escape the cheese.
There was a similar program in place that supplied fallout shelters across the US with survival kits. During the Cold War, with the threat of nuclear war hanging over their heads, thousands of fallout shelters were built, either privately or in public facilities in what was called the Community Fallout Shelter program. Stocking those shelters came with several independent kits;
Light colored, fiberboard barrels are 'Sanitation Kits'. Each contained, a commode seat, commode chemical pack, bag liners, toilet paper, hand cleaner, plastic gloves, water spout, napkins, paper cups, can opener, and twist ties.
Rectangular metal cans were called 'Cracker Rations'. They had not just crackers but also bulgar wafers, and carbohydrate supplement hard candies.
A third set was a metal, 17.5 gallon water barrels with extra plastic liners serving as water buffalos.
The combination of kits was to supply a group of people a quart of water and 700 calories a day, the minimum for survival, for two weeks. There were other boxes created; radiation detection kit, medical kit, and a ventilation kit.
Such kits can be clearly see in the 1978 film 'Dawn of the Dead' when the survivors enter the mall for the first time.
I've never heard of this, super interesting!
HEY QXIR have you ever thought of making an adult colouring book of some of your most memorable drawings? Cause I would buy one, and I think alot of others would too!! Just a thought. ☺️
I think it is marvelous just imagine the stored honey aswell as crackers,nuts ,water, whine ect.
My brother-in-law used to be a fireman in a bad section of town, here in a big city on the East Coast. He would have people coming into the firehouse all the time selling their free 5 lb blocks of cheddar for a buck. We had our fair share of it, and I remember it being pretty damn good. We even had to buy a slicer.
I remembered getting government cheese, peanut butter and butter. Wasn’t bad at all. Granted it was some artisan fancy cheese but it got the job down and it was better than nothing
American food is so bad. Bland gruel or corn syrup fatbergs.
Except Creole & Cajun food. Texas Chili is good as well.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan don’t believe he’d care about you uppity opinion and he was stating how they had to make due and still enjoy what they could get.
@@acrothdragon Yeah...
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Glad you could afford such luxuries Josep unfortunately not everyone was so blessed as you were. Be mindful that.
Tried to tell some of my friends about this when we drove through Springfield MO and they thought I was crazy. Had to have them look it up so theyd believe me.
Also: If we're doing videos on wacky things the government stores, do one on Canada's Maple Syrup Storage.
Actually I think you might have because I think you covered the heist of a bunch of it.
I was hoping this would be the announcement that the US dollar would be backed again. But instead of gold, by cheese.
Actually worked in the Springfield Underground once. Place is absolutely MASSIVE
Now I wanna have a cheese cave
You can do, but you may need to visit a doc shortly after
@@b8nnytez What? xD
Any basement or cellar can easily be converted into a cheese cave. And cheesemakin is honestly a rly fun hobby that is mostly waitin and doin other things heh. A lot like brewin alcohol actually, as both need plenty of time to age for some of the best quality.
Compared to brewin tho its much easier to get into cheesemakin bcuz its prty much just do all the work on day one and then wait for the cheese to age properly. Whereas most alcohol brewin takes multiple separate days of decreasin amounts of work.
You'll find her someday.
They actually filmed the "Moon Landing" in the cheese caves
You know when they said the moon is made of cheese? They weren't lying.
I remember my grandparents getting the government cheese in the 80's, mainly because it was free. I had some. Not the best cheese, but it was free.
Free cheese is good cheese to me.😂
Eating mozzarella sticks while watching this fits so well
I remember making grilled cheese sandwiches, macaroni and cheese and cheese and rice with Ronny Cheese back in the day. You could not beat the price.
I'm consistently embarrassed by how much more this kid in Ireland knows about my country than I do.
In the 80s, when I was newly married and poor, we did avail ourselves of the government cheese (and yes, everyone really did call it that). It wasn't the tastiest thing; it was more like a really cheap Velveeta (it even came in the same size and shape packaging, as the video shows). But we were poor and it was food, so we goddam well ate it. I just never knew the story behind it. Thanks, kid in Ireland.
Good that many years later, you are learning about your homeland.
That's how "poor" become strong.
This should be a Gouda episode, let's talk cheddar about this topic. You did great explaining this topic, you didn't leave it full of holes like swiss cheese , any way you slice it this is a bureaucratic issue.
I found that Brielly funny
@@salvadormuro7346 Oh Figue off!!!
My dad lived in a rural community. And as a boy, he said they would just throw a block of cheese on your doorstep a couple times a year.
I remember when I was 12 (I'm 69) and I visited my grandmother in Oklahoma. She was getting a huge block of cheese every month as food assistance.
@Hello Barry how are you doing?
this video was amazing thank you
"You can't just pull a cow out your arse. You gotta pull a cow out of other cow's arses" is now my new favorite quote. I was sent this video during a conversation about the prices of food, and I think this is my new favorite channel. I love this sense of humour!
You survive the Apocalypse in the cheesecave but your lactos intolerant.
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That would be me. I love cheese and I am lactose intolerant!
Every now and then, I would get a hankering for it, and I'd accept the sacrifice of belly aches and diarrhea.
My mom worked for a clinic that served poor people in the 80's and they distributed this cheese from the Department of Agriculture. They had so much that the nurses took the surplus home rather than letting them spoil. (They dropped off the cheese, but there were no refrigerators for it.) It was pretty good, but drier than typical American cheese. That box lasted a long time, too.
Been to those caves, my father sometimes receives cheese deliveries in Missouri. Nice mist inside, the echo of the truck idle is relaxing. No internet connection inside the cave.
I was born and raised in Springfield Mo, nice to see all that cheese there. Maybe that's why I love cheese too much?
(3:37) Yes. THIS is what it looks like. Somehow in the 90s I came into possession of one of these lovely rectangular blocks of U.S. government cheese. When I finally got the courage to open it and try it... Well... Let's just say you aren't missing anything. In fact, never EVER think that poor people are getting something actually good tasting. I imagine that being in a starving condition just might help its palatability, though. They say that a drowning man will grab the edge of a sword. To that I say that a starving man will eat a block of government cheese. Make of that what you will. 😉
EDIT: I must add that I am a bit of a cheese snob. I know there are people out there who have fond memories of all kinds of heavily processed food. To them I say, by all means, don't let me stop you from enjoying it. 😉
The gov cheese we had didn't melt. Ever. 20 min in the microwave and nothing
Naw youre right, that cheese was not good.
It was unsalted, unflavoured, and made with one goal in mind; to preserve the milk as fast as possible and as cheaply as possible.
Ofc that means the cheese quality is gonna be wretched.
Tho if you cud get the cheese to melt and added some seasonings to it then yea, it cud be made palatable. Actually, thats why folks generally say they like grilled cheese with govt cheese; bcuz the bulk of the flavour there is actually from the tomato soup ofc that you dip the grilled cheese in.
And yeah, as the other commenter suggested... Sometimes it just wudnt melt. Theres a lot of reasons behind this, but if ya got one like that... Rly the only good use for it was grilled cheese. It wud at least cook into the bread a little and while not rly melted, it wud become more palatable that way as opposed to raw and uncooked or cooked open faced where it wud just burn.
I have it in my fridge now. It's not any worse than the cheese McDonald's uses in their burgers. It's food. Go through a war and you learn to appreciate sustenance.
@@SylviaRustyFae
It's salty asf now, that's why I love snacking on it (esp when munchies).
@@A_Ducky Oh, good to know its at least salted now; probs they noticed more salt wud make it last longer heh
I had a 1 inch cube of government cheese when I was little, at a friend's house. It wasn't cheese, it was "cheese, I guess." 7/10.
Rest in peace Trevor, you were cool before you started hanging out with the hoodie kids who listened to crime music over shitty phone speakers under the bleachers. Thanks for the subsidized dairy block.
Is it weird that i'd be really interested in taking a tour of one of the storage sites.
I grew up in Springfield, MO and am still salty I was never able to see all the cheese
They gave it to schools too. I got to eat in the 80s as a kid. It didn't taste too bad. :)
I ate some of that cheese as a kid. I remember that packaging you showed. I was very young, but I do remember waiting in a long line inside what looked like a grocery store without shelves but with food all over long tables. And we got this and gray cardboard cans of peanut butter and similar. A food bank, I presume in hindsight.