America has a record high stockpile of cheese at 1.385 billion pounds
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https://www.wxyz.com/news/america-has-a-record-high-stockpile-of-cheese-at-1385-billion-pounds
(WXYZ) - America's stockpile of cheese is at its highest in more than 100 years, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
According to a report on cold storage from the USDA, America has 1.385 billion pounds of cheese in its stockpile, the highest since records started being taken in August 1917.
The report found that the East North Central region of the United States has the highest stock of natural cheese for American and other cheeses, with 339 million pounds of American
cheese and 374 million pounds of other cheese.
According to the Washington Post, the cheese stockpile is so high because there's too much milk on hand for processors, and milk is more easily stored as cheese. Combine that
with school being out and cows being more productive, you get the record number.The lowest stockpile of cheese came in 1918, according to the USDA, where there was just over 23
million pounds of cheese.
Had to fix a few typos in the article, odd
why do americans need so much cheese? i wouldn't feel safe walking around there knowing anyone could have cheese.
Some good news for once.
to defend themselves obviously
It's not. America has had massive stockpiles like this before, and most of the time they end up being destroyed, or given out to programs that simply dispose of them. If you really wanna see some existential horror, look up how much milk, cheese, and corn America destroys yearly.
My company stores cheese in some of our facilities. It's in the hundreds thousands of tons at the facilities that do store it. A lot is made in American with good majority from foreign imports coming from Canada usually Goat Cheese.
Sorry my right to cheese offends you
it's getting to be a real problem, we have so much cheese we've had to start storing it in the oval office
No wonder I keep getting cheese on my burgers, even when I ask for no cheese specifically.
I feel like they might be bulking out the numbers a bit. How about we get a non-American to count it, because to the rest of the world, this shit isn't cheese:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107029/686a94b4-a077-44d6-b2a9-abb3cd1d759c/image.png
It is not allowed to be called cheese in the US either, its processed cheese, processed cheese food, or processed cheese spread according to FDA regulations.
"Cheese"
The only way to stop a bad person with cheese is a good person with cheese
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Hey now, cheese is no joke.
If the average price of cheese is $10.69 and the USA has approx. 628,225,400kg of real deal cheese in it, then that cheese in bulk is valued at probably $6,715,729,526.
So just the stockpile of cheese is worth nearly $7 billion dollars and may keep rising. That cheese stockpile has more value than the nominal GDP of some 60 other countries in the world.
And lemme tell you, if the political situation fucks your business like that, you won't be able to cheese your way into getting the money for all that cheddar.
Should sell it to China, which has had a massive boom in cheese demand in the last few years, to pay off the US debt?
It's been a while since a FP news thread made me laugh this much
It's for our backyard barbecues. We also need extra cheese when burgers are on the grill!
You are like a little baby. Where I'm from, we're practically made of cheese.
cheesus christ
Relevant, apologize for potato quality but I can't find a better video:
https://youtu.be/FkbdbRjMX2Y?t=2m13s
How do you stockpile cheese? wouldn't it go off pretty fast?
that's when you call it "aged"
You haven't seen nothin' 'till you've bought "Sandwich Slices". Waxy texture and they don't even melt, but they're 30% cheaper than Processed Cheese.
you goddamn liberal sissy...
I for one salute America for having THE most delicious thing on Earth in extremely high quantities!
IIRC, Trump wanted to bring back GI Cheese. When their were tariffs and a long stockpile like this in the 80's, Reagan did the same.
In America we have Portable Cheese Wheels that we use as shields.
Sheogorath be proud.
The more I think about it, the more I'm positive that Trump is in fact Sheogorath.
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