How the U.S. Ended Up With Warehouses Full of 'Government Cheese' - HISTORY
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In the early 1980s, the US government distributed some 300 million pounds of pungent-smelling processed cheese that had been produced with federal funds.

Capitalism is completely rational, do not ask about the over-supply of milk that threatened to collapse the dairy industry - and the best solution to that was apparently turn it into cheese and store it and then... I dunno dump it in the ocean?