It's a result of Jimmy Carter's dairy subsidies. There was a Planet Money episode about it, and the origin of the phrase "government cheese":
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/episode-862-big-government-cheese
They're preparing for the Dragonborn. He will need all 1.4 billion pounds of cheese to heal mid fight.
Ok who’s been messing with their Skyrim console commands?
You should see South Dakota's strategic cabbage chamber.
Idaho has potato caverns
I thought, "1.4 billion pounds of cheese can't be a real number, right?" Turns out, it kinda is. 1.4 billion pounds (actually generally 1.45-1.5 billion) is the amount of cheese the USDA stores in cold storage warehouses across the US. And indeed, much of that seems to be in caves in Missouri. But any particular cave probably only stores a few million pounds, although getting specific numbers is rather difficult.
Okay, see, if this were most of what the government did; I'd happily pay taxes.
I'd pay extra and ask how I could help. I'd be painting american flags on shit, instead of saying 'smash the state'.
That's just my emergency stash. I try to keep at least two week's worth of cheese there at any time.
Said the dragon of their hoard.
You're welcome to have a ton or two. Tell 'em I sent ya
A moon-sized pizza to feed the Devourer of Worlds and save the Earth that way.
All they're doing is making earth's crust cheese stuffed.
Or it’s the government propping up Big Dairy
It was, but I do believe they've sold off a lot of it by now
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That's just the weekly stash
There’s a bunch of these huge warehouse-like caves in Missouri, some are more natural, but many have been developed. They are super valuable because of the natural climate consistency.
An example near Kansas City: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubTropolis
I replied with this lower down then figured it might as well be a top level comment.
Here is a great YouTube video that explains not only this cheese cave, but the reason it even exists and then where we get the phrase "government cheese" from and the whole government program of propping up the dairy industry.
Wait until you see Iowa's yogurt lagoon.
Missouri isn't the Midwest but you are correct in that we store our uprising cheese there
Ever wonder where the phrase "government cheese" comes from?
Not this, it comes from the free blocks of Velveeta style "cheese" the us government would give low income families in the 1980's
Wisconsin is invading next week
Can you in metric?
635,029,318,000 g
This is my retirement plan. When the time comes, I'll hide in the vast caves and eat cheese the rest of my existence.
I would empty that place in an evening of "just one more slice and I'll go to bed"
Make believe they're home for a captured south European spy.
Diabetes 3
I'd like to order an XL New York triple cheese pizza please... ummm, make that 2.
Being fat and full of cheese. Bliss.
They're planning on selling a lot of cheese...
Giving everyone either horrible constipation or violent diarrhea.
El queso del gobierno
If they start trucking in cornchips and jalapenos...
Cheesy plans
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