There are now around 400 tons of the creamy gold in the refrigerators and freezers of the mile-and-a-half region, and people are getting desperate to find ways of dealing with it
One particularly bizarre sidebar to the COVID pandemic is the food distribution boxes that yeshivos and schools send out, which are taken by virtually every family, rich or poor. One of the staples of these boxes is milk — it’s almost as if the cows were in need of federal benefits, too.
“The cows will have to go on unemployment now,” a friend joked when the federal lunch program that funded the distributions ended several weeks ago. No luck — it was renewed by the Agriculture Department shortly afterward. The cows are back on the national payroll.
When I asked my editor whether to write about it, he responded, “Milk it for all it’s worth.”
And that’s what we’ve been doing with the cows, apparently. There are now around 400 tons of the creamy gold in the refrigerators and freezers of the mile-and-a-half region, and people are getting desperate to find ways of dealing with it.
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