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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Cheesing it up

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Cheesing it up

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Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-caves-and-food-surpluses-why-the-u-s-government-currently-stores-1-4-billion-lbs-of-cheese

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    Honestly, the idea that America has a network of cheese caves makes the country a little bit more awesome.

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      The best part is that dealing with old mines is a big issue (socially, land use wise, and environmentally). Re-purposing them as cheese caves has me howling.

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    Meanwhile Canada has a strategic reserve of maple syrup.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      You shut up about that right now. it’s a national secret. What do you think we do with those abandoned wells?

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        We had to tighten up security after the great maple syrup heist.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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          Adjusted for inflation, the heist was the most valuable in Canadian history until the 2023 Toronto Pearson International Airport heist

          Did they steal an airport in 2023?

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          Also, does that qualify them to be called the Sticky Bandits? More professional than Marv and Harry at any rate.

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        It’s actually having to be used, since production of our sweet glory oil has been low.

        • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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          Sweet Glory Oil, o my god that is hilarious.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      Really just Quebec

      Both are there to pay farmers for more than the country needs

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    When the zombies start taking over I’m grabbing wine and crackers and setting up my base in the Cheese Cave.

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      Com’on you know there’s already a team camping at every entrance, waiting where you can’t see them.

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        They won’t keep me from my snacks.

        • dditty@lemm.ee
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          They can’t stop all of us

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

    See also:

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_mountain
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_lake
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Maple_Syrup_Producers#Strategic_reserve
    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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      QMSP/FPAQ isn’t government owned though.

    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world
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      Thank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that “vintage” originally meant “wine harvest”.

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        Etymology

        late Middle English: alteration (influenced by vintner) of earlier vendage, from Old French vendange, from Latin vindemia (from vinum ‘wine’ + demere ‘remove’).

        Interesting. It makes a lot of sense now, knowing that.

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
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    It ain’t sliding down easy if it ain’t cheesy!

  • Infynis@midwest.social
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    They should let people in. Sell the cheese like apples at a pick your own apple orchard

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    Cheesegate.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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      Bad security. Just chew right through that.

      • dditty@lemm.ee
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        Their security is full of holes

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
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    Can I apply to be a government cheese handler? Chilling in caves all day, cool, comfortable, snacks…

    I mean yeah you’ll need to download your music and Netflix for the day but I’m willing if the pay is right.

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    In Switzerland we have the tradition that for every kg of gold stored in a bank, we have to keep an equal value of cheese in the vault.

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    The government created stuffed crust pizza

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      THANKS OBAMA!

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    We should stop subsiding dairy. In fact we should release all the cheese all at once to counter greedflation

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      This is the plot of one of the malazan books

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Honestly, I’m surprised we’re not on NCD already.

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      I will fight to defend the United States Strategic Cheese Reserve to my dying breath 🧀

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    Wait there isn’t a single rat inside the mines?

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      There are no single rats. They’re all married.

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    Which Adam Curtis documentary is this from?

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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      And how is this just like that small rebel group in Ecuador?

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    I like to imagin its one big cheese cave secretly connecting the whole country, every store and the US collectively decided to always just pick a cheese out of it and close the door, while someone fills it back up by pushing more cheese into it from the other side.

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