UpRising: How would you describe the actual government cheese program?

Aeysha Carr: There's a ton that I know about it. The dairy farmers had a surplus and they were all going to go bankrupt. So the federal government bought all this surplus milk and dairy. How you can keep dairy [from spoiling] is by turning it into cheese. So they turned it into cheese, and then they had this surplus that they put into this food program. What people don't realize is it was really good cheese. And so when you ask people of that time period, they have these nostalgic memories of what they made with this government cheese. I think that's why it stood out so much from all of the food that they did give out.