The More You Know ★
The More You Know ★
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"Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese"
"Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese.
Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country’s 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese.
How we got to this point is a long story, and it starts during a national dairy shortage in the 1970s. "