[lbo-talk] not everyone is critical of Andy Stern

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Sun May 16 08:03:31 PDT 2010


At 05:11 AM 5/16/2010, Doug Henwood wrote:


>[Here's one for Stern's fans out there. Without him, no health care
>reform. And he understands the redeeming qualities of Wal-Mart. No
>more effective strikes!]

And commodity meat!


>Naturally, the announcement got limited
>publicity, but that's a serious amount of money
>(mostly in-kind donations of food from Wal-Mart
>groceries) that will significantly dent the hunger problem.

Too bad Hasil Adkins isn't here to enjoy it:

http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/adkins.htm

I have to ask you this: what exactly is "commodity meat?" What does that mean?

You mean commodity meat? Well, see, way back in the place of welfare, what they call it now, or "Human Services" & all that, you know, they changed all the names, but way back there they had that what they called the DPA­that's Dependent Children of Americans­and they used to give out, well, peanut butter, commodity meat, you know, the government give it out, commodity is what it was. Surplus stuff from the Army men, or all that kinda thing when they got back [after World War II], and they would give so much of that out every month for the people that's on welfare­well, it ain't welfare, now, but what it was, same thing, only different name. And they would give 'em so much, like, powdered milk, powdered eggs, & cheese, & peanut butter, commodity meat, uh, I don't know, just a little bit of everything. But that commodity meat is good, man!

Is it beef, or what?

Uh, you eat it.

No, I mean is it beef, or pork, or what?

Oh, it was pork, and...I think they had two different cans, I think one of 'em was beef and one of 'em was pork.

Is it kind of like Spam?

Yeah, yeah. Somethin similar to that. But that beef was something like the old-timey barbecues used to buy, you know, the barbecue sandwich. It taste just like you couldn't tell it. I mean, it looked just like it & everything. To me it's just like that barbecue they used in the real stuff, they made it. It was good. Real good!



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