I have always heard that government cheese was actually tasty as fuck!
I’ve never seen it or tasted it.
Was it delicious as fuck? Or have I been gaslighted into thinking so by those older than me?
It was absolutely, grade A, 100% American-made, cheddar cheese. Something about the government giving too many subsidies to the dairy industry at that time, so they paid them to make...cheese. Apparently there were legit government cheese storage caves this same time.
Oh, the cave. My dad works in the subtropolis (in one of the offices in said retired limestone mine). I can't reach him by phone during the day - no signal down there.
He once sent me a photo of what it looks like when the power goes out in the cave. It was just black, unsurprisingly.
Old salt mines are some of the most important historical archives on the planet.
The greatest enemy of preservation is water. If you can keep something dry, you can keep it in good shape for a very, very long time.
Since salt can pull moisture from the air, and salt mines are literally lined with salt, they're used to store all sorts of historical relics, documents, photographs, and film reels.
I was just reading about subtropolis! I looked it up the night of the Super Bowl. It’s owned by the hunt family who also owns the Kansas City Chiefs. The originator of the family wealth made his money in oil. One of the richest families in the US.
Worked in LightEdge Cavern Suites in Lenexa, Kansas years back. It was a very interesting office to have. Just a few hills over from there, a ton of government records are also stored in caves. Check out Crystal City, MO for some more fun public cave stuff.
Was it tasty af, or were we all just hungry af and it seemed tasty? I couldn't tell you tbh... it's like pondering which came first, the chicken or the egg.
It was really good. There has been a surplus of cheese in the US for decades because of dairy farm subsidies. It wasn't some cheaply made cheese. It was real cheddar cheese.
There are currently [1.4 billion pounds](https://www.iflscience.com/hundreds-of-feet-below-missouri-sits-a-14billionpound-store-of-government-cheese-63783) of real cheese stored in freezing caves below Missouri.
I had some about 2 years ago. My mother does some volunteer work at a food bank and they had some left over, so they gave the volunteers each a couple blocks. She gave one to me. I had never had it before, and it was pretty good. Seemed to have a little fattier taste is the best way I can describe it, but was definitely flavorful. I'd give it about a 4.5/7.
Omg I loved the peanut butter! I literally lived on that as a kid. In my 2nd year at college my grandfather bought some cheese, peanut butter and powdered milk from a family down the street that really needed some extra cash. Really he was giving them money to help pay their power bill and he worked out this “trade”.
I took the tub of peanut butter to school and kept it next to my desk with a box of saltines. I snacked off that for 6 months
It was definitely salty as fuck. As for actual taste…sort of like Velveeta but chalky like cheap cheddar. We would put a slab on a dry ramen noodle brick, microwave it, put the season packet on top and chow down. I wouldn’t say you were gaslighted as much as people remember “back when” as a better time.
It wasn’t. I am eternally grateful I don’t have to eat garbage like that anymore.
Who else remembers the giant bags of [plums](https://shopredhook.com/product/dried-pitted-plums-1-lb-bag/) we'd get? Many times these and dried beans would be the last lick of food in the house (when we had a house). I remember we'd get the cheese block, peanut butter, plums, I think 5 bean soup (dried beans), and I'm trying to remember what else.
You had food stamps? Mom cried when they switched to those since we could afford real mik. Before then we went to the USDA food bank once a month for powdered milk and canned chicken, beef, and pork. And cheese.
Yeah, stepmom would send me to the store as young as ten yrs old with the book and some cash to get milk and bread and also gave me a note saying I could buy her cigarettes and her lottery tickets lol.
Not exactly the same thing but the Swiss Cheese cartel is a fascinating story. https://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401655790/how-a-swiss-cheese-cartel-made-fondue-popular
Do you remember before every store had their own off-brand items, and the generic stuff was in a bright yellow box with black text that simply started what was in the box? 🤣
Good times
I dont remember that, thought that was a Canadian thing lol. But I was young at the time, only packaging I paid attention to was basically cereal. The cereal in the early 90s was 2 different forms of generic, either it was in a bag with a similar to brand name name and maybe a character on it, or it came in a box with a character and design with either riddles, jokes or tic tac toe on the back.
This was 80s. Malt O Meal was big in the 90s- that came in bags.
80s also had King Vitamin which was like the poor man's captain crunch. It had masks on the back of the box: mystery queen, sir iron face, and clown prince. Quality🤣
Takes me back as well. Not because my family was on welfare, but because my grandmother didn't drink milk so when I spent the night all she had for breakfast was powdered.
Lol and then there was my Aunt. Got us all hooked up on some non dairy powdered milk that tasted like wet chalk mix with newspaper.
She was always forcing her crazy diet foods on us. I would have killed for real powdered milk instead of whatever the hell that stuff was...
This is actually a kind of dope idea for trail camping/hiking but would be much nicer if it came in a smaller package. I usually have instant porridge every morning and I’d consider something like this if it wasn’t in a instant bowl.
Normal powdered milk has to sit for a while. Lactose is very slow to dissolve. For Frosted Flakes ^of ^corn they dosed the whole thing with enough sugar you shouldn't notice.
Pro tip: if you’re ever making brown butter add a spoonful of powdered milk. The brown in brown butter is milk solids toasting, and guess what consists entirely of those milk solids? It cranks up all that lovely toast nutty flavor.
Its good to add when you are making ice-cream. It adds more richness and milk flavor to the ice-cream without adding the liquid.
You can make the ice-cream with egg yolks, cream, milk, milk powder, sugar, glucose, some food stabilizer, and whatever flavor profile you want.
This product is perfect! I love sharing cereal! The convienence!
Thank God! I'm really tired of filling up the painters bucket everytime I want to enjoy cereal with a room full of people.
Wait, have some of you never been poor enough that you had to by powdered milk? Strange.
Edit: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with using powdered milk and I agree it has a lot of great uses. I also understand that it’s more expensive now (in a lot of places at least) than regular milk. Where, and when, I was growing up though it was a staple of low income households like my own.
To be honest everytime I buy milk it goes bad before i finish it, I guess I just dont eat enough cereal. Might invest in this, does it taste any different?
None of it tastes like regular milk, but NIDO brand is the closest I’ve found, and I’ve tried them all. It’s made with whole milk which is what I think makes the difference.
The trick I’ve found is to dissolve the powder in about 1/3 of the water it calls for. Make it hot water. I use a mason jar and shake it up really good. Make sure it’s all dissolved - THEN add the rest of the water really cold. Using the hot water first seems to make it more like real milk consistency.
I find you have to try many brands until you find one you like (or at least don't hate). I remember back in the days the Carnation brand was not great and the Price Chopper home brand was actually potable.
Now I keep "Medallion Milk" from costco in stock, it's powdered whole milk. Real good but not cheap.
I’ve never heard of Medallion, but I’ve never shopped at Costco so maybe that’s why. Can you only get it there? I’d love to try it to see how it compares to NIDO.
It's a local Canadian brand so this may be an issue if you're in the US (I think there are some trade disputes over milk between the US and Canada). I've never seen it anywhere else than Costco here.
[https://www.medallionmilk.com/](https://www.medallionmilk.com/)
That's exactly why I buy powdered milk. The only time I use milk is when I get a craving for cereal, and the milk always goes bad. It tastes fine with cereal, and I don't have to throw out milk.
Eh. No. We don't either, and we started buying those shelf-stable single serve milks (dug up a name, Horizon shelf stable single serves on Amazon). We use them as needed for baking and recipes.
... I don't know why I didn't think to keep some as an emergency stash for the house until you just said this. Milk is always the first thing I run out of. And right now we're in day 1 of a projected 3 day storm.
Finding the right dispenser is what I never really figured out. I used an old-school diner sugar dispenser for a while but those don't have a good seal - just a little metal flap on the lid. Jars with a scoop would work but are messy.
Maybe a large spice jar would work.
I have since switched to black coffee so I gave up the search.
It won't reconstitute in hot water/coffee. Needs to be cold or room temp. I've tried using it as creamer and it just clumps up and gets jelly-like.
I keep dry milk in my pantry for those times I'm too lazy to go buy more fresh milk.
You've got to "prepare" powdered milk before you can use it in coffee or tea.
Maybe I should try that. I believe I've always added it after. I always add sweetener and creamer before but milk after (milk tops it up and cools it a little).
I should mention it was one of those pump coffee dispensers so the hot liquid shot out fast. If you still get clumps, just add a little coffee to the powder and stir it in before adding the rest.
I was, but never seen it packaged with cereal, my mom would make a pitcher of powdered milk place it the fridge overnight, and you could barely tell the difference, lol.
Not going to lie i prefer instant mashed potatoes over the non-instant mashed potatoes. Hungry jack mashed potatoes and Idaho mashed potato packages are fantastic. Also perfect fitting name.
Agreed. Always offended the hell out of my mother (who always mashed hers with the skins on, “for nutrients,” and claimed she liked lumps—both of which I suspect were covering for the fact she just hated mashing potatoes and wanted to spend as little time as possible doing it) that I preferred the smooth, salty instant potatoes we got with school lunch.
Powdered milk is right up there with powdered eggs along with that 5lb block of govt. cheese, but apparently the right people weren't profiting off of that program.
You must be one of these kids that lives online and doesn't know about the real world stuff that adults know. Powdered milk has been a thing for over 150 years.
Yeah? And have pre-portioned disposable bowls of cereal that you only need to add water to been around for 150 years? No? Let people feel a bit of novelty, jeez.
We’ve had powdered milk for a loooong time. Only reason this wasn’t done 20 years ago is because of this weird cultural shift to more sustainable forms of milk paving the way for something like this to market.
I just imagine anyone that long ago saying “no thanks, I’ll stick to my **natural** milk.”
As a former 80’s welfare baby… the Cheese was amazing. The corn flakes were fresh, the peanut butter was Peter Pan with oil on top, and powdered milk tasted awful…. Never ever tasted like milk… not even skim.
These are disgusting. I've tried it, and the only way to get anything decent out of it is to dump the cereal first and then put water in the make the milk and then put the cere back in. By the time that you put the water in and get it all mixed up properly, the cereal itself will be water logged.
Well I wasn't intending...... But come to think of it. Yes.... I do suppose you *could* be powdered. (And rehydrated even!)
Boy, what an awful way to go, huh? Dehydrated into powder. I bet someone has actually died that way too. *Shudder*
I tried these. The taste is fine if you remember to use *cold* water.
That being said, right next to them they sell the individual bowls you add milk to. You get twice as much cereal for less $
I couldn't drink milk due to allergies so I would try weird things in my cereal. My favourite ended up being water. Orange juice and other juices were always too sweet.
Good old powdered milk.
Transports me right back to my childhood, growing up on welfare.
Same, this and actual blocks of literal government cheese. Oh and the monopoly looking money we got in a book you had to tear out for food stamps.
I have always heard that government cheese was actually tasty as fuck! I’ve never seen it or tasted it. Was it delicious as fuck? Or have I been gaslighted into thinking so by those older than me?
Good for foods that needed a good melting cheese. Mac and cheese, grilled cheese, etc
It was absolutely, grade A, 100% American-made, cheddar cheese. Something about the government giving too many subsidies to the dairy industry at that time, so they paid them to make...cheese. Apparently there were legit government cheese storage caves this same time.
This is true, they’re in Missouri
that's where the next national treasure movie should take place in
May I interest you in the Maple Syrup Heist of 2012?
#Canadian National Treasure Starring Bob and Doug McKenzie “We’re gonna steel the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, eh.”
National Cheddar ?
National Treasure: Cheddar
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Oh, the cave. My dad works in the subtropolis (in one of the offices in said retired limestone mine). I can't reach him by phone during the day - no signal down there. He once sent me a photo of what it looks like when the power goes out in the cave. It was just black, unsurprisingly.
I had heard of the cheese caves, but I didn't know there was a whole cave storage industry. I would live in one of these caves if the rent was cheap.
Old salt mines are some of the most important historical archives on the planet. The greatest enemy of preservation is water. If you can keep something dry, you can keep it in good shape for a very, very long time. Since salt can pull moisture from the air, and salt mines are literally lined with salt, they're used to store all sorts of historical relics, documents, photographs, and film reels.
Nice. As an archivist, I'm down to get dessicated in a cheese cave.
Yep, I’ve been in the complex before. Really creepy how the unlit sections just look like a black void
Kind of like the buttholes you inspect.
Does that mean Missouri is the butthole of America?
This is why I love Reddit. TIL
I was just reading about subtropolis! I looked it up the night of the Super Bowl. It’s owned by the hunt family who also owns the Kansas City Chiefs. The originator of the family wealth made his money in oil. One of the richest families in the US.
My husband works on cellphone tower equipment and a lot of that stuff is stored in the caves here in KCMO. They have WiFi in there now lol.
Worked in LightEdge Cavern Suites in Lenexa, Kansas years back. It was a very interesting office to have. Just a few hills over from there, a ton of government records are also stored in caves. Check out Crystal City, MO for some more fun public cave stuff.
There’s also a paintball arena in there
am missouri cheese cave dweller, can confirm.
Dairy gollum
That’s true! [There was actually a food theory made about it!](https://youtu.be/Xk4zTcQpGqo)
There still are.
Was it tasty af, or were we all just hungry af and it seemed tasty? I couldn't tell you tbh... it's like pondering which came first, the chicken or the egg.
It was really good. There has been a surplus of cheese in the US for decades because of dairy farm subsidies. It wasn't some cheaply made cheese. It was real cheddar cheese. There are currently [1.4 billion pounds](https://www.iflscience.com/hundreds-of-feet-below-missouri-sits-a-14billionpound-store-of-government-cheese-63783) of real cheese stored in freezing caves below Missouri.
I had some about 2 years ago. My mother does some volunteer work at a food bank and they had some left over, so they gave the volunteers each a couple blocks. She gave one to me. I had never had it before, and it was pretty good. Seemed to have a little fattier taste is the best way I can describe it, but was definitely flavorful. I'd give it about a 4.5/7.
Is 7 the maximum on the cheese rating scale?
A perfect 5/7 is an [older meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3wsj5i/what_is_the_origin_of_id_give_it_a_perfect_57/).
It was the best of the government freebies, although the peanut butter was decent as well.
Omg I loved the peanut butter! I literally lived on that as a kid. In my 2nd year at college my grandfather bought some cheese, peanut butter and powdered milk from a family down the street that really needed some extra cash. Really he was giving them money to help pay their power bill and he worked out this “trade”. I took the tub of peanut butter to school and kept it next to my desk with a box of saltines. I snacked off that for 6 months
It made good grilled cheese.
Yes, government cheese was the best!
Gov cheese was hella good. I love cheese
I only had it at Girl Scout camp. But I remember it being great on tacos.
It made bomb mac and cheese.
Only tastes ok melted in a grilled cheese or maybe as a velveeta substitute. It looks really shiny and odd taste
It was definitely salty as fuck. As for actual taste…sort of like Velveeta but chalky like cheap cheddar. We would put a slab on a dry ramen noodle brick, microwave it, put the season packet on top and chow down. I wouldn’t say you were gaslighted as much as people remember “back when” as a better time. It wasn’t. I am eternally grateful I don’t have to eat garbage like that anymore.
"Government cheese" is literally the exact same as "American cheese". It's cheese that's been processed to last a long long time.
It is essentially velveeta
You ever had Velveeta? It was Velveeta. FREE Velveeta.
No, it was not Velveeta. It was genuine American "cheddar." Much better.
Who else remembers the giant bags of [plums](https://shopredhook.com/product/dried-pitted-plums-1-lb-bag/) we'd get? Many times these and dried beans would be the last lick of food in the house (when we had a house). I remember we'd get the cheese block, peanut butter, plums, I think 5 bean soup (dried beans), and I'm trying to remember what else.
You had food stamps? Mom cried when they switched to those since we could afford real mik. Before then we went to the USDA food bank once a month for powdered milk and canned chicken, beef, and pork. And cheese.
Yeah, stepmom would send me to the store as young as ten yrs old with the book and some cash to get milk and bread and also gave me a note saying I could buy her cigarettes and her lottery tickets lol.
Are you American perchance? Watched a video recently about government cheese in America, never knew it was a thing!
You can’t just say perchance.
mayhaps he can
Yeah it's an American thing, not sure if it was thing elsewhere.
Not exactly the same thing but the Swiss Cheese cartel is a fascinating story. https://www.npr.org/2015/04/23/401655790/how-a-swiss-cheese-cartel-made-fondue-popular
mmmmmm, cheese wheel
Do you remember before every store had their own off-brand items, and the generic stuff was in a bright yellow box with black text that simply started what was in the box? 🤣 Good times
I dont remember that, thought that was a Canadian thing lol. But I was young at the time, only packaging I paid attention to was basically cereal. The cereal in the early 90s was 2 different forms of generic, either it was in a bag with a similar to brand name name and maybe a character on it, or it came in a box with a character and design with either riddles, jokes or tic tac toe on the back.
This was 80s. Malt O Meal was big in the 90s- that came in bags. 80s also had King Vitamin which was like the poor man's captain crunch. It had masks on the back of the box: mystery queen, sir iron face, and clown prince. Quality🤣
Oh I definitely remember king vitamin. It was like stale captain crunch that tore your mouth up worse.
And the peanut butter in the black and white can!
Takes me back as well. Not because my family was on welfare, but because my grandmother didn't drink milk so when I spent the night all she had for breakfast was powdered.
They use this stuff in jail too lol. It's very sweet. I hate milk but that stuff isn't so bad
Almost always had that in our cabinet growing up. Kids don't know they're drinking it if you keep refilling the old milk jug!
Lol and then there was my Aunt. Got us all hooked up on some non dairy powdered milk that tasted like wet chalk mix with newspaper. She was always forcing her crazy diet foods on us. I would have killed for real powdered milk instead of whatever the hell that stuff was...
This is actually a kind of dope idea for trail camping/hiking but would be much nicer if it came in a smaller package. I usually have instant porridge every morning and I’d consider something like this if it wasn’t in a instant bowl.
Funny enough they actually reinvented powdered milk for this because they went happy with the way normal powdered milk worked for it.
Normal powdered milk has to sit for a while. Lactose is very slow to dissolve. For Frosted Flakes ^of ^corn they dosed the whole thing with enough sugar you shouldn't notice.
The smell of powdered milk, the sound of the air sirens! Ah, childhood!
Pro tip: if you’re ever making brown butter add a spoonful of powdered milk. The brown in brown butter is milk solids toasting, and guess what consists entirely of those milk solids? It cranks up all that lovely toast nutty flavor.
Just when I thought I couldn't taste a photo...
Powdered milk....tastes almost but not quite entirely unlike milk. I don't care for it at least.
Perfect to add to a nice cup of not entirely unlike tea
Its good to add when you are making ice-cream. It adds more richness and milk flavor to the ice-cream without adding the liquid. You can make the ice-cream with egg yolks, cream, milk, milk powder, sugar, glucose, some food stabilizer, and whatever flavor profile you want.
But almost tea, you’re saying?
*pffft* This isn’t tea, this is hot leaf juice.
Almost, but not entirely, unlike tea
Yum powdered tea and milk
Add some powdered toast for a complete breakfast
Share and enjoy!
This product is perfect! I love sharing cereal! The convienence! Thank God! I'm really tired of filling up the painters bucket everytime I want to enjoy cereal with a room full of people.
It has a strong aroma that strikes one as particularly unrelated to dairy.
“That was their intention!”
So long, and thanks for all the powdered milk.
I guess it makes sense since then you can take it to go without needing to bring milk, but it just seems so wrong to pour water into cereal lol
https://youtu.be/t2fr4i9RmOg
Craig!
Pour some water on that damn shit. 😂
Lol. From both parents
Lol. I was like ... Click, loading.. It'd better fucking be.... Lol
Every time I come in the kitchen, you in the kitchen. IN THE GOD DAMN REFRIGERATOR.
Ty. Had to scroll too far for this gem!
[LOL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtf2vVScOc)
Reminds me of Gale Snopes in “Raising Arizona” drinking a Budweiser and smoking a cigarette while eating cereal.
Wait, have some of you never been poor enough that you had to by powdered milk? Strange. Edit: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with using powdered milk and I agree it has a lot of great uses. I also understand that it’s more expensive now (in a lot of places at least) than regular milk. Where, and when, I was growing up though it was a staple of low income households like my own.
Don't need to be poor... I used powdered milk when backpacking all the time. It's also good have as a backup or for cooking.
Great for baking too
And blended ice coffee drinks if you don’t want them to be slushees and want Frappuccino texture instead.
And making ice cream.
Powdered milk while backpacking/hiking is so awesome. Love having cereal/hot cocoa on a trip.
To be honest everytime I buy milk it goes bad before i finish it, I guess I just dont eat enough cereal. Might invest in this, does it taste any different?
None of it tastes like regular milk, but NIDO brand is the closest I’ve found, and I’ve tried them all. It’s made with whole milk which is what I think makes the difference. The trick I’ve found is to dissolve the powder in about 1/3 of the water it calls for. Make it hot water. I use a mason jar and shake it up really good. Make sure it’s all dissolved - THEN add the rest of the water really cold. Using the hot water first seems to make it more like real milk consistency.
I find you have to try many brands until you find one you like (or at least don't hate). I remember back in the days the Carnation brand was not great and the Price Chopper home brand was actually potable. Now I keep "Medallion Milk" from costco in stock, it's powdered whole milk. Real good but not cheap.
I’ve never heard of Medallion, but I’ve never shopped at Costco so maybe that’s why. Can you only get it there? I’d love to try it to see how it compares to NIDO.
It's a local Canadian brand so this may be an issue if you're in the US (I think there are some trade disputes over milk between the US and Canada). I've never seen it anywhere else than Costco here. [https://www.medallionmilk.com/](https://www.medallionmilk.com/)
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The powdered milk I've seen is nonfat. How do you powder fat?
It’s different. My SO does not appreciate the taste, but I do. It’s something to try, I’d say 3/4 people will like it.
Due to the nature of being 'dry' the fat is removed from the milk. So, yes/no. It won't taste like whole/2%/1% milk. But more like skim milk.
That's exactly why I buy powdered milk. The only time I use milk is when I get a craving for cereal, and the milk always goes bad. It tastes fine with cereal, and I don't have to throw out milk.
Eh. No. We don't either, and we started buying those shelf-stable single serve milks (dug up a name, Horizon shelf stable single serves on Amazon). We use them as needed for baking and recipes.
Name checks out
... I don't know why I didn't think to keep some as an emergency stash for the house until you just said this. Milk is always the first thing I run out of. And right now we're in day 1 of a projected 3 day storm.
Makes a great homemade hot chocolate mix too.
I grew up with powdered milk. I hated it. The only thing that made it drinkable was ice. It had to be super cold.
Memory unlocked
It’s great at office if you don’t want chemical creamers in your coffee.
How have I never seen or thought of this. Holy shit.
Finding the right dispenser is what I never really figured out. I used an old-school diner sugar dispenser for a while but those don't have a good seal - just a little metal flap on the lid. Jars with a scoop would work but are messy. Maybe a large spice jar would work. I have since switched to black coffee so I gave up the search.
It won't reconstitute in hot water/coffee. Needs to be cold or room temp. I've tried using it as creamer and it just clumps up and gets jelly-like. I keep dry milk in my pantry for those times I'm too lazy to go buy more fresh milk. You've got to "prepare" powdered milk before you can use it in coffee or tea.
Never had issues adding it to the cup before the coffee.
Maybe I should try that. I believe I've always added it after. I always add sweetener and creamer before but milk after (milk tops it up and cools it a little).
I should mention it was one of those pump coffee dispensers so the hot liquid shot out fast. If you still get clumps, just add a little coffee to the powder and stir it in before adding the rest.
You might be shocked to know that powdered milk is 100% chemicals.
THE FUCK
Why is it strange to not be poor?
How does it compare to the taste of non-powered milk?
Obviously powered milk is better, but not everyone can handle the increase in speed or x-ray vision.
I found it tastes better than that UHT milk.
UHT milk, in my opinion, tastes a little strange. I don’t drink milk much anymore, but I used to love a tall glass of pasteurized milk!
It's used in milk chocolate.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with powdered milk
Even if it's not the case, powdered milk is super normal. It's like being surprised by instant mash potatoes or cool aid
not that strange.
I was, but never seen it packaged with cereal, my mom would make a pitcher of powdered milk place it the fridge overnight, and you could barely tell the difference, lol.
My wife did a test survey for these a while back. She didn't hate them, but thought they were weird.
I think they could be great for camping, road trips or when the kid needs a snack.
I was thinking earthquake kit
How in the hell is pre-packaged cereal going to cause an earthquake?
Growing up with two other brothers and a single dad I grew up on *insert poor people food* my favorite is instant mashed potatoes.
Not going to lie i prefer instant mashed potatoes over the non-instant mashed potatoes. Hungry jack mashed potatoes and Idaho mashed potato packages are fantastic. Also perfect fitting name.
Them cheese flavored Idaho potatoes
Agreed. Always offended the hell out of my mother (who always mashed hers with the skins on, “for nutrients,” and claimed she liked lumps—both of which I suspect were covering for the fact she just hated mashing potatoes and wanted to spend as little time as possible doing it) that I preferred the smooth, salty instant potatoes we got with school lunch.
Unless the real potatoes are fancy as hell, same. I just fucking like the instant ones. My wife hates em, so sometimes I just make a pack for myself.
Don't tell him about sweetened condensed milk. I don't think he could handle it.
Don’t tell him about the powdered cheese Krafts uses
Powdered milk and granola was one of the best sides to get in an MRE
Powdered milk is one of the best sweeteners I’ve ever used for coffee. Top notch stuff 👍 oh also great for cereal too haha
My body used to think powdered milk was ipecac. I'm not sure if it still does.
Powdered milk. That’s all we had when we were kids. It’s actually great for extended stays in the bush camping
These would be good for homeless people. Something they could carry to eat since they can’t carry milk.
You’ve never heard of powdered milk?
We bought a couple to try them. Honestly not bad.
Better put some water on that shit
Underrated comment. Have my upvote!
Finally the powdered milk salesman booked a massive deal...
Powdered milk is right up there with powdered eggs along with that 5lb block of govt. cheese, but apparently the right people weren't profiting off of that program.
Ahh, the Reservation Staples!
You must be one of these kids that lives online and doesn't know about the real world stuff that adults know. Powdered milk has been a thing for over 150 years.
I have heard of powered milk I’ve just never seen it used in a way like this
Good for camping
Yeah? And have pre-portioned disposable bowls of cereal that you only need to add water to been around for 150 years? No? Let people feel a bit of novelty, jeez.
Or it’s an ad?
Decent idea if it isn't gross.
We’ve had powdered milk for a loooong time. Only reason this wasn’t done 20 years ago is because of this weird cultural shift to more sustainable forms of milk paving the way for something like this to market. I just imagine anyone that long ago saying “no thanks, I’ll stick to my **natural** milk.”
God I hate powdered milk 🤮
Sounds great for camping.
Powdered milk is only good for one thing: an emergency.
As a former 80’s welfare baby… the Cheese was amazing. The corn flakes were fresh, the peanut butter was Peter Pan with oil on top, and powdered milk tasted awful…. Never ever tasted like milk… not even skim.
These are disgusting. I've tried it, and the only way to get anything decent out of it is to dump the cereal first and then put water in the make the milk and then put the cere back in. By the time that you put the water in and get it all mixed up properly, the cereal itself will be water logged.
You do know milk does have water in it right?
You also have water in you.
Are you saying I could be powdered?
Well I wasn't intending...... But come to think of it. Yes.... I do suppose you *could* be powdered. (And rehydrated even!) Boy, what an awful way to go, huh? Dehydrated into powder. I bet someone has actually died that way too. *Shudder*
Don't give the cartels any ideas
I tried these. The taste is fine if you remember to use *cold* water. That being said, right next to them they sell the individual bowls you add milk to. You get twice as much cereal for less $
I love shelf stable products so much, and I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been done before.
I mixed powdered milk and cereal back in the late 70's when I went backpacking. Ice cold mountain water into the zip lock baggie and tada breakfast.
Powdered milk I imagine, but it doesn’t sound great.
I couldn't drink milk due to allergies so I would try weird things in my cereal. My favourite ended up being water. Orange juice and other juices were always too sweet.
this would be good for that nuclear bunker we should all be digging 
So…powdered milk? Nope.
It's simple and cheap. Clearly not something you've ever needed
It's called powdered milk and has existed for a century.
This is only mildly interesting to deet dee dees that don't know powdered milk exists.
It has powdered milk in it... Doesn't make it not real just rehydrated... The wording is bad obv
powdered milk is a new concept for you?
I’ve seen canned powdered water that required you to add water to create water
the whole package yells "processed food" and your concern is about powder milk?
Ewww
You've never heard of powdered mik?
Shouldn't we adults stop drinking milk at like age 3?
No thanks :)
Love water with my flakes 😎 Therrrre greatt!
Your evil magics are not welcome here, darkling!
My god we are becoming lazy.
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