Calculated Risk considers the possibility that Americans respond to the recession by buying cheese. Makes me remember my friend Ignoto, who got through college on government surplus cheese.
Surplus cheese? Yep, seems that Ignoto's roommate was Chinese (-American) with a grandmother in a nursing home down in Locke. Astute Californians will recognize Locke as a community with a heavy Asian presence. The nursing home got regular shipments of government surplus cheese. For a cohort of residence who are genetically unable to metabolize dairy...
Surplus: Years ago in my Kentucky newspaper days, I asked my friend Ivan what East Kentuckians did with all that government surplus lard. Dunno, said Ivan. Trade it for whisky?
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