Cheesing it up

Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 277 points –

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

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

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Thank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that "vintage" originally meant "wine harvest".

Etymology

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.