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My Grandma did too. That cheese was frickin' good.My grandma used to get the block of government cheese every month.
I have one teen boy who likes protein shakes. we go through a gallon a week and I buy the 4x half gallons from costco. TBF, I also drink a fair number of protein shakes myself. You must've had a ravening horde!These days we drink tons of ultra pasteurized milk, expiration dates are usually at least a month out, we've sometimes drank slowly enough to get 10 days out of an open carton. When the kids were little, we went through 6 half gallons a week.
Well, for a while, they were both on the bottle. Then they switched to sippy cups, but still several times a day. I wonder what the grocery store though though about me cleaning out their shelf of Horizon DHA+ Whole Milk every time I shopped... Loved some re-usable shopping bags from Ikea that we had that easily held 6 half gallon cartons...I have one teen boy who likes protein shakes. we go through a gallon a week and I buy the 4x half gallons from costco. TBF, I also drink a fair number of protein shakes myself. You must've had a ravening horde!
They used to always use it on the cheese toast with school breakfasts when I was a kid.My Grandma did too. That cheese was frickin' good.
At the time of Ronald Reagan's signing of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, the cheese stockpile equaled more than 2 lb (1 kg) of cheese for each person living in the United States.
California was the first state to take the cheese; the first delivery that it received was three million pounds (1,400 t).
I get my protein shakes premade and premeasured. Fairlife for the win! I also get Fairlife milk for making ice cream and magic spoon cereal.I have one teen boy who likes protein shakes. we go through a gallon a week and I buy the 4x half gallons from costco. TBF, I also drink a fair number of protein shakes myself. You must've had a ravening horde!
Maybe, but it won't bring all the boys to the yard.protein yoghurt>protein milkshake
Grocery stores used to deliver, too.I was wondering the same thing... Milk deliveries? Powdered milk? What happened to the grocery store?
Yes. I've been struck by the way that grocery stores offering delivery--or new services arising that go to the grocery store and pick up your order--have made something of a comeback in recent years, at least around here.Grocery stores used to deliver, too.
Before typical families had a car and two jobs, the milkman and bakeries made daily rounds of deliveries. Greengrocers sold fruit and veg from the backs of trucks, visiting each street a couple of times a week. People put in orders at grocery stores which the stores delivered, about weekly. And doctors made house calls.
The Past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
My grandma used to get the block of government cheese every month.
I’ll just quote the wiki article because it would say it better than I can:Why was the government in the cheese business?
Government cheese is a commodity cheese that was controlled by the US federal government from World War II to the early 1980s. Government cheese was created to maintain the price of dairy when dairy industry subsidies artificially increased the supply of milk and created a surplus of milk that was then converted into cheese, butter, or powdered milk. The cheese, along with the butter and dehydrated milk powder, was stored in over 150 warehouses across 35 states.
To disguise a vast scheme of subsidies to agriculture.Why was the government in the cheese business?
Makes some of the best queso, even better than using velveeta.They used to always use it on the cheese toast with school breakfasts when I was a kid.
It had just a certain quality in how it melt that is really unique. It's like... it's not a "good cheese" but somehow it is perfect for being whatever weird thing it is and tastes way better than it should.
Yup, was gonna say, that it's been nice to have the return of that service. I make use of it often. Of course unless you live out in the middle of "everything is trying to keeeel you twice Australia", where services like that are a myth for them. If you tell them such things exist they'll call bullshit on you! You are obviously lying to claim such, just like you're telling tall tales that New Zealand exists.Yes. I've been struck by the way that grocery stores offering delivery--or new services arising that go to the grocery store and pick up your order--have made something of a comeback in recent years, at least around here.
Yup, was gonna say, that it's been nice to have the return of that service. I make use of it often. Of course unless you live out in the middle of "everything is trying to keeeel you twice Australia", where services like that are a myth for them. If you tell them such things exist they'll call bullshit on you! You are obviously lying to claim such, just like you're telling tall tales that New Zealand exists.
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Or maybe both? Both is good. I drink a protein shake, have some Fage yogurt, and another meal and some snacks and call it done.protein yoghurt>protein milkshake
They still do around here.Grocery stores used to deliver, too.
A new one to me is canned mackerel. It is clearly better than its reputation.
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The things you can do with AI images these days. But if you look close you can clearly see the artifacts and bits of Australia it's stolen from.
Actually it's the other way round. Australia is 65% stolen New Zealand race horses and music acts by volume.But if you look close you can clearly see the artifacts and bits of Australia it's stolen from.
Some settling may occur, as it says on the box…Actually it's the other way round. Australia is 65% stolen New Zealand race horses and music acts by volume.
Even as recently as the late 80s kids here had newspaper runs after school, and in urban areas the milkman delivered every couple of days, in the early hours of the morning. You put out your bottles, with coloured plastic rings on them to mark non-standard milk choices (a new innovation - previously you got whatever was the standard). Either you ran an account, or you put tokens (bought at the local dairy) in the bottles. The milkman then swapped your bottles for full ones. They'd employ teenagers to push a cart down the street while the milkman worked the truck, driving it and filling crates to be put on the cart for the next street. Pushing the carts was hard work and most kids I knew would've preferred a paper run, but those were hard to come by and jealously held by those who had them.Grocery stores used to deliver, too.
Before typical families had a car and two jobs, the milkman and bakeries made daily rounds of deliveries. Greengrocers sold fruit and veg from the backs of trucks, visiting each street a couple of times a week. People put in orders at grocery stores which the stores delivered, about weekly. And doctors made house calls.
The Past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
Here, being? Helps with context when you mention where you grew up.Even as recently as the late 80s kids here had newspaper runs after school, and in urban areas the milkman delivered every couple of days, in the early hours of the morning. You put out your bottles, with coloured plastic rings on them to mark non-standard milk choices (a new innovation - previously you got whatever was the standard). Either you ran an account, or you put tokens (bought at the local dairy) in the bottles. The milkman then swapped your bottles for full ones. They'd employ teenagers to push a cart down the street while the milkman worked the truck, driving it and filling crates to be put on the cart for the next street. Pushing the carts was hard work and most kids I knew would've preferred a paper run, but those were hard to come by and jealously held by those who had them.
But for me that was all moot, because I lived out of town, biked a couple of miles down a country road each day to catch the school bus, which took long enough to get to school that the most urgent not-done homework could be completed on it. No after school paid job (or sports) for us, just unpaid farm chores. On the other hand, we didn't have a TV until I was in my mid-late teens, and my parents read, so we read, and I don't think we came out the worse for that (and the town library was, looking back, amazingly good for a city of 60,000).
Here, being? Helps with context when you mention where you grew up.
I believe Sharrow has mentioned in the past that they are from New Zealand.
Which we already established earlier is a myth.
I'm sending 15 tuataras in a trenchcoat to beat some geography into you.Which we already established earlier is a myth.
It's a quantum superposition, as soon as you confirm that one exists, the other doesn't.Wait, I thought that was Australia? Are they both myths? If so, are they both part of the same larger mythology, or are they separate, unrelated myths?
Yup, I was aware that he currently lived there, but due to how he's talked in other posts I thought that he had lived in other places. So I speculated that he might have grown up some place other than New Zealand. I mean at times he's come of as being more appearing more knowledgeable about life and places in the USA. More than once I meant to ask him where he'd lived here. So my bad for the error in assuming that he'd lived here.I believe Sharrow has mentioned in the past that they are from New Zealand.
As it happens, I've lived all my life in the non-existent, mythical land of New Zealand. Any knowledge I have of life in the US is from reading and talking to friends and acquaintances who live there, so it's all second-hand.Yup, I was aware that he currently lived there, but due to how he's talked in other posts I thought that he had lived in other places. So I speculated that he might have grown up some place other than New Zealand. I mean at times he's come of as being more appearing more knowledgeable about life and places in the USA. More than once I meant to ask him where he'd lived here. So my bad for the error in assuming that he'd lived here.