You old heads remember this stuff from the 70's and early 80's.
In the grocery store they had the "Generic Aisle". All the stuff was in white cartons,cans, etc and had black letters. t wasnt no different than the name brand shit, but it looked ghetto as hell.
You would be in fear if friends came over to your house and saw your cupboards full of that stuff...but then you realized they had the same shit too.
The US Govt kept these generic foods in stock in giant warehouses across the country. They kept food stock in case of a Nuclear attack, Great Depression or large scale natural disaster.
They would rotate stock when it got near its expiration date and ration it out to welfare recipients, food stamp folks and working poor families.
They had everything in a can, box or carton. My mother one time got the Govt handout and she had a couple of cans of whole chicken and a big can with half a turkey one time.
And then you had the infamous Government Cheese.
That shit was in a class by itself.
HaHa!
That all ended when Pres. Reagan got in office and eliminated it.
Socialism at work, it actually happened here in America.
And all you younguns', don't go saying you wouldn't eat it....cuz thats all you had back then or your ass would starve.