Post AUa02bKPRcyW97Mdma by amanda@an.errant.cloud
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 (DIR) Post #AUYdAe2sjXGGmp4YMK by seldo@alpaca.gold
       2023-04-11T23:06:48Z
       
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       Apparently it's the time of year when people who were not previously aware that the US government stores over a billion pounds of cheese in a cave in Missouri become aware of that fact.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYdAeoNsvG7A9IUOu by seldo@alpaca.gold
       2023-04-11T23:13:37Z
       
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       50% of people: "Oh yeah the cheese caves"other 50% of people: "The. What."
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYdAfX3CqzJOgCA1Q by Paradox@raru.re
       2023-04-11T23:24:52Z
       
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       @seldo I'm going to assume it's a storage facility, possibly for aging them.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYdJ5IvGnqle1bFTM by seldo@alpaca.gold
       2023-04-11T23:26:23Z
       
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       @Paradox That would be so much smarter. It's literally because we don't know what else to do with all this cheese.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYdoP4BqNy3uhdu7s by Paradox@raru.re
       2023-04-11T23:32:03Z
       
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       @seldo Ok so my next question is how are we overproducing cheese on the order of a billion pounds a year?
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYeE281kYC2IkeuDQ by seldo@alpaca.gold
       2023-04-11T23:36:41Z
       
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       @Paradox I refer you to this excellent explainer https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYeKFDfzSTKdlGLyK by Paradox@raru.re
       2023-04-11T23:37:49Z
       
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       @seldo Ok so I did a quick read.One, I misread your post and it's just that's how much there is now.Two, we started something forty years ago and haven't stopped for some dumb reason. That something being dairy subsidies because we didn't have enough.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUa02bKPRcyW97Mdma by amanda@an.errant.cloud
       2023-04-12T13:33:33Z
       
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       @seldo @Paradox okay, but "government cheese" is blocks of yellow cheese that the USDA distributed to did stamp recipients in the 80s
       
 (DIR) Post #AUa02bxP6eAQ63bmYy by Paradox@raru.re
       2023-04-12T15:15:49Z
       
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       @amanda I take it that such cheese is what's being stored, they just stopped handing them out, because apparently most of it is now owned by private companies.