Strategic Cheese Reserve: What Should the Government (or failing that, a transient co-operative of monied anarchists) be Hoarding and Strategically Dumping to Ward off Opportunistic Price Hikes in the

I was a little miffed the US did not deploy its strategic cheese reserve to depress dairy hikes over the last few years but no use crying over unspilt milk!

Steel

wokeness

TIL Canada has a strategic maple syrup reserve

Ironic, using maple syrup reserve to get out of a sticky situation...

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The other day I learned that cheese is the most stolen type of food in the world.

dairy believe it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/31/man-arrested-over-theft-of-22-tonnes-of-cheese-from-neals-yard-dairy

Least or most necessary? Strategic Wine Reserve
https://www.ft.com/content/cf693188-bbe9-4196-b028-1e2e154d596d

We were too late for eggs, but with tariffageddon on the horizon, and the global nature of printing, maybe libraries ought to be stockpiling books?

Have you...been to a library?

Yeah -- they seem to be under siege by busybodies who want them to have fewer books!

Strategic Rice Reserve Unleashed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSlesThHpE

Stockpiling SSRIs and antipsychotics

we're eating well tonight boys

At work I have a stockpile of powdered milk, because the shared fridge is plagued with milk-stealers. No-one else wants powdered milk because it's an acquired taste, so no-one steals from me. And no-one accuses me of theft because I'm above suspicion. No-one can accuse me of stealing the milk. I am like Great Britain during the height of the British Empire. I sit apart from Europe, safe behind the White Cliffs of Dover, with my navy protecting me, aloof from the world, with my stockpile of powdered milk.

But its availability waxes and wanes seemingly in inverse concert with baby milk formula, presumably because it's made in the same way. Curiously there doesn't appear to be a powdered milk / baby formula stockpile anywhere in the world, which is odd because it keeps for ages. But perhaps keeping huge amounts of powder is an explosion risk, I don't know. Or perhaps in the event of apocalyptic emergency the governments of the world would have to make the pragmatic choice that babies are just a waste of resources that could be given to healthy people of working age. Such as myself! Screw you, kids.

I always imagined in the 1980s that the United States had a huge cocaine stockpile in case of World War Three. Military rations used to include amphetamine tablets, but nuclear war would have had a much higher tempo, so soldiers would have needed stronger stuff. But again, powder is explosive, so it would have been dangerous to have a cocaine stockpile. Imagine fifteen million tonnes of cocaine just exploding after a nuclear strike. I have no idea what effect it would have, but cripes. Just the thought of it. A huge cloud of radioactive cocaine. Seductive, but deadly.

I have vague memories of eating powdered milk from a jumbo, generically designed, possibly govt issued package. Maybe the advent of shelf-stable forever liquid milk made powdered milk uncool, and they dumped them all in a algae-laden lake to make the world's most disgusting smoothie?

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