Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoCheesing it upslrpnk.netimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up1272arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1264arrow-down1imageCheesing it upslrpnk.netTrack_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
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
minus-squareArthur BesseAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-28 months agohttps://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
minus-squarewildbus8979@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoQMSP/FPAQ isn’t government owned though.
minus-squarePrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoThank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that “vintage” originally meant “wine harvest”.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months ago 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese
See also:
QMSP/FPAQ isn’t government owned though.
Thank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that “vintage” originally meant “wine harvest”.
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.