/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53298359
Cheese.

Nono, that's not entirely a joke, the Agricultural Act of 1949 has the US Gov support farmers by buying their surplus crops in order to keep them alive, but for dairy farmers this posed a problem, because the gov couldn't keep milk... except as cheese. So they made government cheese, and we have vaults FULL of it. What's more, this act is still in effect, so dairy surplus results in more government cheese. If they just started giving it away, it'd drop demand for cheese... which would make dairy farms fail and rely on the gov resulting in more gov cheese so they can't do that.

So instead, we end up with government sponsored pushes to buy dairy and use cheese like "Got Milk?" and the like.
Quarter Pounders with cheese? Stuffed crust pizza? Cheesy fries? Cheese stuffed everything? American culture prompted by government cheese.

Now you know.