America's Secret Underground Cheese Bunkers

[@mj12383]

I like to imagine that while he was in the kitchen, wrapping tin foil around a hat, his wife was just like "Yep, that's my husband."

[@patrickmullins8472]

I think she knew what she was getting herself into. 😂

[@leonsullivan3490]

Nah they never know the true extent of a crazy veteran, I can still surprise my wife with stuff I do/say after 25yrs of being married 🤷🏾

[@meawreg]

us old souls call it "tin foil".. these new kids call it "aluminum foil"

[@patrickmullins8472]

@@leonsullivan3490 must keep things fresh though lol.

[@jero37]

​@@meawreg Well tin is actually really expensive now.

[@jeremiahcocanougher1338]

I'm a former alcoholic of 14 years . The crazy thing is ice cream was and still is the only thing that curbs my urge to drink. I've been alcohol free for 15 months now. Im currently installing a septic system listening to basically you're entire channel. Thank you for your service and your awesome content!!

[@jeremiahcocanougher1338]

Meant to post this one on the last video lol

[@jasonhargis5598]

Congrats on 15 months of sobriety!

[@sarahwallace1103]

I would also eat a shit load of ice cream if I was out doing a septic system in this heat

[@dantheman9167]

I just quit smoking, and milk curbs my cravings. Good for you on quitting drinking

[@donnastokes-manning6175]

Way to go.

[@DutchTraveler]

As a Dutch, I approve of the American cheese protection program.

[@randyslegacy99]

Even if most is Cheddar or cheddar derived and not Gouda?

[@Im_MarkS]

As a fellow Dutch man i concur 👍

[@jic1]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket There's a ton of processed cheese in Europe. In fact, it was invented in Switzerland over a century ago. I'm sure there's as much Dairylea, Laughing Cow, Primula, and the like eaten in Europe as 'real' cheese, maybe even more.

[@hobowithashotgun3438]

I appreciate you Dutch, and your contributions to cheese.

[@redtalks4425]

As a American, I politely say fuck you with all disrespect 😂.

[@paulaweaver6508]

My grandma got government cheese; government peanut butter; government spam; government coffee(WWII, Korea, Vietnam eras military coffee) which was Folgers coffee in hugh tins); government flour; and government sugar. My grandma got it because she was elderly and raising some of her grandkids (her daughter passed while the kids were little) and grandma got extra stuff because she was a WWI widow. My grandpa (her husband) served during WWI. Grandma got so much she shared with my parents. Dad and grandma would get in a bartering discussion over the coffee. Lol. Dad and mom bought other groceries to get the coffee. Lol. PS my grandma was getting government food from the 50's through the late 80's. Thank you

[@crimsonhalo13]

Now do Canada's Strategic National Maple Syrup Reserve. :) There was even an epic heist a few years back that involved thieves breaking in and stealing thousands of gallons of syrup.

[@Saanonymous80]

Wasn't that done by switching water into the drums of syrup?

[@nissan300ztt]

I was just posting this. A little to late. But yeah its real. Its dumb. LOL.

[@randyslegacy99]

Although, have two provinces nearly come to blows like NY and VT did when NY also made the Sugar Maple the state tree😊

[@simhyun1702]

i am a canadian and i approve

[@MGPRaleigh]

That's a country that doesn't use freedom measurements if I'm not mistaken... Oh Canada... Get your own fat electrician...

[@rogeraldrich2533]

I was of lawn mowing age when Regan's cheese hit the elderly. For one glorious summer, five pound blocks of cheese were currency, I was paid in cheese, I traded cheese, I loved that cheese that tasted exactly like my elementary school cheese sticks.

[@grandpaweber2097]

Not your usual content, but interesting and funny all the same. As a cheese lover, I approve 100%

[@the_fat_electrician]

I appreciate that!

[@mikehatton7908]

I had stopped, only to say the same. It was certainly refreshing to see something a little (but not too) different. Greetings from across the pond to you both. EDIT; I would also like to echo the gentleman's sentiment regarding one's eternal adoration of all things cheese.

[@neverlistentome]

​@@the_fat_electrician This may have legitimately changed my world view... Wow.

[@dobermanownerforlife3902]

I already have high cholesterol. My chest would explode just smelling one of those bunkers.

[@justanothersortalonelyguy7925]

I'm a fellow cheese lover myself I was unaware that this was all due to deep psyop. It is good to know that instead of being secret organizations like the Illuminati we have secret organizations in Wisconsin pushing cheese.

[@Pjwilliamson55]

The underground storage facility in Springfield MO really does exist, my daughter used to work there. The temperature was great all year long lol

[@Hogscraper]

Growing up in the 80's we actually got that cheese once a month because we were poor and, oddly enough, I definitely remember it being better than the cheese we got at school.

[@mikeyz1080]

Definitely was... The school cheese was rubbery ...also the government peanut butter was amazing... The jelly was meh and powder milk was a special level of horrible though...lol

[@dundonrl]

Take that powered milk, and make hot chocolate, it was awesome to drink! @@mikeyz1080

[@abc-coleaks-info]

@@mikeyz1080the milk looked grey!

[@christopherconard2831]

A few years ago someone actually traced the chain from farm to school cafeteria. Much of it was too low quality to feed to prisoners. Some of it wasn't acceptable for pet food. But somehow okay for public school students.

[@georgewhitworth9742]

@@christopherconard2831Sounds about right for public schools...

[@KnucklesAndBig]

"El Dorado is real and Uncle Sam made it out of cheese" has got to be one of my favorite lines from this whole channel

[@CJFellowServant4288]

It goes hard too

[@Oinkasaurus]

As a dairy farmer who knows alot of the industry higher ups on a personal level, Derek is absolutely like that. He drives around Chicago in a red Stingray Corvette because of course he does. Fun Fact: my dad was the deciding vote on the "got milk" campaign when it was pitched from DMI to the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) saying "it might be silly, but what have we got to lose at this point?" PS: there are absolutely freighters full of cheese sunk to the bottom of the ocean, it happened alot between 98 and 06 because it was easy to "fix the loose math" that way.

[@jzapien1377]

I don't know what to do with the I formation I've been given and I am uncomfortable with it.

[@atlanticancameos5131]

I feel as If I shouldn't know this

[@JMarchel]

That's a lot of lies in one comment.

[@atlanticancameos5131]

@@JMarchel it’s all true just ask Derek

[@SovereignShooter]

What is your unbias professional opinion on humans drinking milk? Iv been reading things about it over the years and there is conflicting research stating humans should not even be consuming it. Do you know about the health cons\benefits to it? I know we get a lot of propaganda from government, big pharma and all other sorts of things but curious to hear what you might know on this subject.

[@gkiferonhs]

Don't go dissing Government Cheese. If you were poor folk you could get some of that cheese every month and it was damn good cheese. I wish we could openly buy it today.

[@bobbidudley2362]

They ran out, they don't give this out anymore

[@paulbraun4820]

Helped hand out govt cheese once as a boy scout in the 1980s. Two semis pulled up and people could pull through in their car and get the handout. What started as 1-per-car quickly turned into how-many-do-ya-want because the goal was to empty the trailers. Our prize for helping was a case of 12-5lb blocks per scout, so I got 1 and my brother got 1 (literally 2 dozen blocks). My mom froze most of it and we found the last brick in 2008 when her freezer died. It wasn't bad Cheese. Like dry Velveeta.

[@birdlovespaint]

Indeed. It was a thing back then .

[@josephhyland8904]

One of my neighbors got some of that and shared it with us. It wasn't bad cheese.

[@miguelrivero317]

Back then government cheese was the move.

[@bullpupgaming708]

I'm just trying to imagine what 120 lbs of cheese looks like lol

[@mcinteer19]

“It wasn’t bad cheese. Like dry Velveeta.” It isn’t cheese, and it certainly wasn’t good.

[@benm8973]

This is one of the best KZbin videos I have ever seen. It has everything. Crazy TRUE conspiracy theories, leaked documents, shady politicians, and even the dairy Kabal... I love you

[@the_fat_electrician]

I'm glad you liked it lol 😆 ☺️

[@caseyrsummers]

There's actually an underground cave system a couple of miles away from my house in super rural Tennessee, it was originally carved out by a huge underground pot growing operation but has since been purchased by a cheese company. I've explored the cave system myself and it's pretty massive.

[@caseyrsummers]

The original pot growing operation was only found out by authorities because the man that owned the cave was illegally stealing electricity from a neighbor and the neighbor had the local electric company investigate it lol

[@mikeyoung490]

In wnc a guy I new had a grow house at his home not a cave but had 4 mothers and cloned 100 of each in stages the best pot ever one hit and you were tost got caught because his power bill was 2800 bucks a month

[@fakshen1973]

@@caseyrsummers "Run silent... run deep." Of all the things to try and save money on, they wanted to tap power from somewhere else. Electricity needs to run on a wire and that wire is going to lead straight to your operation. They could have put a towable diesel generator on site and then have a spare in case the first one fails or needs servicing (tow it to a mechanic to be serviced). I don't do any funny sh.. myself... but if you spend 2 minutes thinking it through, you're going to realize that stealing power or doing anything else that's going to draw heat is NOT the way to go. The cave system is about genius because there's nothing detectable from the air like visual or thermal signatures indicating a grow operation. Leaching power from your neighbor like you're stealing cable TV? That's just dumb.

[@nimzzor]

This isn't entirely true. They did see a heat signature when flying over.

[@1noduncle]

Does the cave still smell like blue cheese?

[@thomashauguel6811]

If you grew up poor in the 70s/80s you've likely had government cheese at some point, and you know IT WAS AWESOME! It was the perfect cheese for grilled cheese sandwiches, and if you were hungry when you came home from school you just cut yourself off a big piece and snacked on it until mom got off work and made dinner...which usually consisted of a dish that included the government cheese. I miss the stuff. 😢 (But not the poverty!)

[@Cormyre]

Right? I have still never found something that quite scratches the "poverty nostalgia" itch of the fuggin' grilled cheese sandwich that this cheese created. I've had better? Sure, you can create some nightmare/dream-fuel grilled cheeses with the glut of cheese available now, but nothing touches that bastard.

[@pamelaforth7820]

Actually, the cheese was part of government surplus (surplus food) to the poorest of the poor. We went on gov surplus in 1958 or 60, when the autto workers went on an extended strike. IMO the peanut butter sucked but the cheese was like the big blocks of Velvita and the flavor was to die for!

[@calbaier]

My grandma called that gnawing cheese. If I was hungry, "go get some gnawin' cheese."

[@AdmiralGray1911]

The cheese was good, but the thing I miss the most was the canned beef. Once back in the early 90s we traded a bunch of cans of the terrible peanut butter to another family (they loved the stuff) for their canned beef (which they hated) I thought we had hit the jackpot and everyone was a winner.

[@goaway3717]

As I recall some of it was in the schools as well. At least I think that's what some of the markings on some of the refrigerated school food supplies said that I was tasked with hauling from the walk-in fridge to the kitchen for the lunch ladies to use when I was in High School in the mid 80's. They made mac & cheese with it as well as several other dishes.

[@GreaverBlade]

Love this format of "conspiracies that actually happened and can at least be made funny". Hoping for more like this in the future!

[@danielle2451]

Yeah I need more of these rattling around in my brain

[@justinchamberlin4195]

As a Wisconsin resident and cheese fanatic (but I repeat myself), I am 100% on board with the United States Strategic Cheese Reserve. But I have to say...1.5 billion pounds doesn't seem like enough. That's only, like, a week's worth of cheese for every single person in the country (having had two lactose intolerant friends over the years independently pop a few Lactaid pills and then tuck into an entire cheese pizza, we're definitely not getting their shares). What the hell do we do when it runs out? A reserve of 100 billion pounds gives us some breathing room in a disaster scenario that I can live with.

[@badjuju2721]

I agree, we need to expand the cheese supply by several orders of magnitude!

[@jameskirkpatrick5569]

Also we could definitely go full send and make multitudes of types of cheese.

[@Mrhalligan39]

1.5 billion pounds is only 5 pounds per American, that’s far too little to be ready for a true disaster scenario.

[@mgeiger2341]

​@@Mrhalligan39Waffle House: Amateurs.

[@ajumbo7762]

@@Mrhalligan39 Five paltry pounds? What are we gonna do for lunch?

[@SalKorosin]

As a former temp worker, stacking blocks of cheese in the cheese caves was probably the easiest job I had, even got a bonus in the form of bags full of cheese sticks

[@spartin1173]

Cool free cheese

[@Rhov9]

I just love that we, as a country, even have CHEESE CAVES 😂 that is just the funniest, most unexpected but also COMPLETELY expected things we would do. People say our power is our military or technology. But I think our power lay in the *cheese* 🧀 💪 😂😂

[@coppertopv365]

😎 Cool!

[@obsidianry0546]

Fun fact! Theres still "Got Milk" posters in reception battalions for Army Basic Training

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

I’m like 90% sure I saw them in Marine Corps Boot Camp too. But I can’t remember lol.

[@chrishulett4370]

In the eighties my dad worked for a limestone mining company in Quincy, IL that had a huge underground refrigerated/frozen warehouse that had train tracks running into the caves. I remember touring the warehouses one time and seeing seemingly unending rows of containers and I asked my dad about it and he shrugged and said, "that's government cheese" I was really puzzled why there was so much cheese there, as well as large batteries the phone company stored for back up power for land line phones. Seemed like strange things to put in the largest "refrigerator" I had ever seen.

[@demomanchaos]

I know those caves, driven past them a few times and I am pretty sure my brother used to work for that same company.

[@Aaron.Reichert]

that sounds pretty insane for a thing that is real

[@EdwardBryant-d3z]

The fact that the US owns 3/4 of a Megatonne of cheese and we still get shitty MRE cheese is astounding Also, the weight of our cheese is approximately equal to a sixth of the combined weight of the US Navy

[@greg4501]

That's what they got. 1.5 billion of mre cheese😂

[@milo8425]

You take that back, MRE cheese is a SAINT

[@nolansprojects2840]

@@milo8425well this just got interesting

[@workablob]

I like MREs. I worked at a windows factory and had these large wooden boxes with hot lights inside and chicken wire on the top to warm up the vinyl in the winter so that it didn't become brittle. I used to throw the MREs on it. Mmmm. It got the cheese monkey off my back.

[@Mrvl1234]

MRE cheese with Jalapenos is great. It's the peanut butter that blows donkey dicks.

[@timehaley]

I remember seeing the government cheese clearly labeled "not for sale for profit" on sale at the commissary (commissary = grocery store for military members). When I asked the head guy at the commissary about it, he told me nobody was taking it when it was free, but at 25 cents a block they couldn't keep it stocked. lol You can't make this stuff up.

[@chrismaverick9828]

As someone who is in retail I can say the mentality of the populace is crazier than people want to admit. Free is suspicious but Discounted is awesome.

[@bogustoast22none25]

It works a little like this: “Free cheese, but I don’t need cheese. What can I possibly make with cheese?” “Discount cheese? Someone fucked up and now they need to sell it cheap to keep the company afloat, his loss, my savings” I don’t know why my brain works like that, it just does, okay?

[@infinitydreamzz]

There is a story about how they convinced Greeks to start eating potatoes 200 years ago. When the new food source was introduced and was given freely no one was interested. The then ruler of Greece put armed guards around the stockpiles who were ordered to turn a blind eye to ppl stealing the potatoes. People thought the potatoes must be of great value to be guarded so they start stealing them and thus the potato was introduced to the masses

[@chaosXP3RT]

"Free cheese? I can buy better cheese at the grocery store for $1.00" "Cheese for ¢0.25? This is the best deal ever!"

[@ML-sc3pt]

​@@chrismaverick9828 exactly this. Anything free people assume is worth less than 0 aka a risk to self However slightly above and the consumer just believes its just unpopular or the business is desperate for cash

[@QLofLandfill]

So I'm in a strategic public relations class and literally doing a paper on this thanks to you😂 when I mentioned it to my teacher he proceeded to tell me about the maple syrup reserves we have in Canada. Apparently we have the same deal because if the maple syrup industry ever collapsed so would the entire province of Quebec😂😂 anyway figured I'd attempt to keep the ball rolling on insane government bunkers here

[@RoseNZieg]

tell Canada to export it. sharing is caring.

[@colincopland3665]

In other words, today I learned that sweet, sweet concentrated tree blood is single-handedly keeping the Quebecois financially afloat!

[@RussellWarshay]

Now do Canada’s strategic maple syrup reserve.

[@the_fat_electrician]

I almost brought that up lol

[@brandonhiggs88]

We actually do and a few years ago alot of it was stolen. No even joking look it up

[@kyle360123]

Wut

[@brandonhiggs88]

@@kyle360123 yes dude look it up we have a 55 million pounds of maple syrup and a few years back some stole alot of it I know it sounds like a joke but it's real Canada supplies the maple syrup in the world. There's actually a Netflix documentary on it called Dirty money

[@lethalfelix]

@@the_fat_electrician oh please do a video on that, this kinda stuff is hilarious

[@rybaneightsix5085]

This has become one of my favorite channels. Not only is our deadpan hilarious host hip to the crooked shit our government does, he gives great reviews on all the cool stuff we wish we could have in our garage-armory. It's the modern revival of Mail Call.

[@ryanlanca9927]

You know, that's actually really accurate come to think of it. Mail Call repackaged with today's sense of humor.

[@richardmeredith69]

More like stupid stuff then crooked

[@darkjill2007]

How do we get this idea to trend in chat. Your absolutly right. A net postive modern reinvention of Mail Call. Its not exactly the same but it has the same engery. He needs a office cargo container and a surplus Hmmwv for set decoraction.

[@CJLiveFromTheOutdoors]

Spot on!

[@YMS09D]

Holy shit, You're right!

[@cmsx1016]

I have a dairy allergy and though its severity has decreased recently, that last bit about people eating it regardless is spot on. If im gonna die by eating some macaroni and cheese then at least Ill die doing something I enjoyed.

[@leroyjenkins4811]

That’s the thing though. For most people a “Dairy Allergy” isn’t deadly. Meaning, it isn’t going to kill you. You’ll just get severe intestinal distress most of the time. If you’re lactose intolerant, they make pills for that in the form of Lactaid. Even if you forget to take the Lactaid, cheese is so good you don’t mind spending a little extra time on the toilet. “Man, this cheese is gonna completely wreck me but I don’t care. Now pass me a slice of that pizza!”

[@infinitydreamzz]

Eating it because it's supposedly so good and necessary for humans. Not because of the enjoyment. Btw, there are vegan cheeses, some are bad but some are very decent, same as vegan milks. Some are undrinkable but some are actually quite good in coffee, shakes etc, so you don't have to die over nothing

[@steveg8102]

I watched this before bed and now I can't stop thinking about the implications of nuking the strategic cheese reserve.

[@jordanvangundy975]

1:11 given the fact that the cheese cave exists to give the survivors of a nuclear exchange something to eat, there’s a VERY good chance that the strategic cheese reserve is a nuclear target

[@lightingthelatenight9942]

Cheese cave sounds so cursed lmfao

[@jordanvangundy975]

@@lightingthelatenight9942 in nuclear war, everything is blursed

[@PhaseCannon]

You mean there's a DAIRY good chance?

[@jordanvangundy975]

@@PhaseCannon I didn’t but now I do

[@jakejascob]

Fun fact to subvert the cost of operating, building and expanding the cave part of the Springfield MO system is actual used for commercial purposes as a ware house and distribution center for Velvetta, Craft, and Miller-lite. It's call the Missouri Underground on Google. The cave is large enough to fit 18 wheelers inside and I have delivered and picked up there multiple times in a truck.

[@theengagedfew]

Me too. One time, I hauled a load of Kraft cheese to a Walmart DC in Shelbyville TN. For some reason, Walmart and Kraft got their wires crossed and, after waiting for a day, I got paid to take the cheese back to Springfield.

[@wishfull3nigma]

I went to the cheese caves in MO several times when over the road. It was always kinda awe inspiring driving through those caves.

[@tryphazzard2771]

There's bike races down there... it's big enough those races don't mess with their work.

[@dmacarthur5356]

I drove into the big one in Kansas City. It's unimaginably huge.

[@jamesk0ua]

Over the years I put multiple phone systems in that cave in Springfield. 18 wheelers drove in and were parked inside, We used our bucket truck to cable the insides over great distances. The distances to some of the phones was so large that we exceeded the length of cable that the systems would work at. We had to get "repeaters" to make the lights work on the 1A2 systems. It is like a city underground. It is really something to see. I haven't been back there now for almost 35 years but I have vivid memories of that place.

[@JDTN1985]

In a similar story, the origin of Cheetos, and eventually Doritos, is also due to the US Government stockpiling powdered cheese and not knowing what to do with it after WW2. They eventually sold it to Frito-Lay at a huge discount who used it to make two of their most popular products.

[@bullpupgaming708]

In short, the US Govt has a horrible habit of over-stockpiling shit that it has absolutely no idea how it's going to get rid of...that is the ultimate "Hoarder" episode that doesn't exist lol

[@TheAttacker732]

@@bullpupgaming708 Kind of, but not really. In wartime, it's not an inherently bad idea to prepare for worse circumstances than you're currently experiencing. In the US case, that tends to mean building up enough material & ordnance to slug it out with a pantheon. On the assumption that our production ability may be ground to a halt next week.

[@arthurmoore9488]

@@TheAttacker732 More like it's easy to forget how much we go through in wartime, and then after the war's over you have these massive f***ing industries you don't want to collapse all at once. Like how the US is ramping up to produce 1 million rounds of Artillery per year because we realized if we shipped everything Ukraine needs we'd run out. Except, once the war ends and we refill our reserves, WTF are we going to do with all the excess production? The easy answer is to slowly ramp down while storing it.

[@100GTAGUY]

Relatively new channel veiwer here, i just gotta say I not only enjoy learning a thing or two from ya but your presentation style and variety of topics you cover is just awesome! You lowkey remind me of one of my favorite teachers from middle school, Mr. Mendenhal was a kick ass history teacher that'd even kept the slacker/clown kids engaged and interested in the subject. Hes got the same kinda teaching style you do, which is why ive been hooked on your content. Right down to the profanity used in context, adds a lil extra passion to the topic at hand and keeps people intrigued. Its kinda cool finding a "new" channel to explore, that simultaneously feels quite nostalgic to me.

[@Doc_Cyco5150]

Apparently I’ve come full circle in life. I grew up eating government cheese and now I’m an owner operator trucker and regularly pick up loads of cheese at the Kraft caves in Springfield MO 😂

[@bandit5875]

They got alien cheese in there? Tell us your secrets - I know you’ve got a level 5 clearance. 👀

[@Zedeezia]

​@@bandit5875that intergalactic cheese. 🤣

[@Paul-vi9gh]

Can we all just take a minute and acknowledge that if he loses any more weight he's just going to have to be called "The Electrician"? Looking good my man!

[@douglasyoung4636]

The built Electrican

[@Michael-ex8lk]

Nah, just change "fat" to "fit".

[@Pyroteknikid]

Clearly he is not eating enough cheese.

[@thehelmethead4883]

The swol electrician

[@matasa7463]

He's turning into his final form, a beefcake military enthusiast.

[@airpods3198]

It has been such a pleasure watching this channel grow from 60k to where it is now faster and faster. I've watched every single one of your videos and treasured every second of them which is not something I can say for literally almost any other channel on youtube

[@pacman4089]

0:47 " This is going to infect your thoughts" he was right this is my roman empire

[@mrbrianc]

I remember my grandfather getting it when I was a kid, and it made it on to almost every sandwich we made. Pretty sure every household in America had one of those wire cheese slicers just for those blocks of cheese.

[@chrismaverick9828]

Metal handle, metal roller, piano wire..... Now that I think about it, it's almost like the FRED's on the old ration cans.

[@Jeff.78]

Both of my grandparents on my mother's side have been gone for over a decade...I still have that cheese slicer.

[@redpilledcovfefe]

EXACTLY WHAT WE HAD!!😂

[@AllanHazen]

As a truck driver, I have delivered to the caves in Springfield, Mo. multiple times. The caves are big enough that trucks can drive inside them.

[@AllanHazen]

@JB-pu8ik not that I know of. I brought cheese into them around 2016.

[@MrWrong96]

I have been in them caves too, the first time I went there I legit thought it was a government facility holding ultra secret things but it’s pretty dope, a little tight but pretty dope and chilly

[@eddiebeaty8150]

There's one of those in Lee's Summit, Mo ​@@JB-pu8ik

[@jaytrashwade1-1]

Have you seen an underground cavern paintball field named Jaegar's Paintball at the caves you drove deliveries too in Springfield, MO?

[@AllanHazen]

@jaytrashwade1-1 nope, sound like it would be a fun place to play paintball though.

[@Saanonymous80]

Radioactive tsunami of nacho cheese? Still probably safer than the Gas Station Sushi I ate last week.

[@SilverState99]

That shit probaly gave you either a tapeworm, a brain parasite, or most likely both.

[@TommyMcElwrath]

Veteran and Springfield resident here. The "Springfield Underground" is legit and it is MASSIVE. Work right next to one which is underneath a rock quarry. The miles of tunnels is actually unclear, even to some who work in them.

[@landenschooler6726]

As a college student, I got food commodities....and this cheese was part of it. It was really good! It made fantastic grilled cheese sandwiches!

[@Ima_Shark]

You mentioned the cheese ‘holding facility’ in Springfield MO and I just about died. My husband worked in Springfield Underground (not with the cheese) and I have personally seen all of this cheese. IT’S NO JOKE! 😂 2 buildings (caves) are for “good cheese” and one is for cheese about to expire. What happens when the cheese expires you ask? It is sold back to the government! Love this video. I had a good laugh. Keep it up Nic. Love your stuff.

[@Ima_Shark]

…and now I expect a knock on the door for spreading “misinformation” 😅

[@Grace-ms7un]

😢 and then the army has to eat it.

[@tyenora]

Living in Springfield is wild tbh, we have so much weird shit here that we never even think about on a day to day basis.

[@kyotra]

TIL Springfield Underground is a thing.

[@Lowvym]

Now, I want to know what the government does with the expired cheese after they purchase the cheese from the government? Am I getting this right? The government is buying expired cheese from them self?!?!

[@BrutusMaximusAurelius]

Hats of for using that Matt Foley clip. Absolutely one of my favorite SNL bits.

[@the_fat_electrician]

Chris was the best to ever do it!

[@darinkubin2596]

I'm in Spfd. I used to weld on their rock crusher in the Underground. It's wild down there... There's so much more storage down there than just a cheese mountain. Good work sir. Keep it up

[@77mcmarine]

This has been bothering me for years. Whenever I look at post-apocalyptic society movies, I was like, "How are y'all hungry? Find one of the cheese bunkers!!!"

[@thublit]

40 years ago the wife brought home a dole out from some kind of program for pregnant ladies and kids. Had one 5 pound block of cheese in drab cardboard container from a government source. It was american cheese and had aged into some of the best cheese I have ever had. Wish I could get it now.

[@leroyjenkins4811]

That was some good cheese, wasn’t it? I’m almost 50 and I still remember the taste of those grilled cheese sandwiches my grandma made with it. I couldn’t have been no older than 10 or 11 years old but I still remember that cheese. Nothing like it. It’s a shame we can’t get it anymore.

[@coastal9181]

I loved it and would buy it from anyone who would sell it. Still remember it was Salty.

[@genejeffries2888]

Oh the government cheese fucking rocked.

[@motofunk1]

Was it made using corn oil?

[@chaosXP3RT]

As someone from Wisconsin, this doesn't seem that crazy to me. But it does come as a huge relief that all our precious cheese is protected!

[@ronjones-6977]

California cows are happier. (The DMI ads told me so.)

[@mcinteer19]

They took your dairy and made “pasteurized process cheese product,” not cheese! As someone from Wisconsin you should be outraged!

[@LordOceanus]

@@mcinteer19 Its American cheese. Its gone through some extra steps but it started as milk and became true cheese at one point.

[@stevenloar7260]

All the curds you can eat

[@chris52209]

​@@mcinteer19american cheese is still cheese dont get it mixed up with the plastic shit

[@JintoLin]

This video describes why this channel is amazing. Talking about the most weird and obscure events through out history that you need to remind people this is not a movie plot and the ones with power in the GOVT are brainless or maybe incompetent is better word here

[@Thee_Sinner]

Couple months ago, my Dr told me my cholesterol was getting too high and I needed to change my diet. At the time I was drinking a lot and my go-to drunk food was microwave nachos. I stopped drinking cold turkey. I couldn’t stop the nachos. It was literally harder for me to quit cheese than alcohol…

[@MrFlarespeed]

Its cheese. Who would ever willingly stop eating cheese. Even if you hate some types, theres so many varieties and so many ways to prepare it that almost everyone has a type or way they like.

[@trikstari7687]

... BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE

[@5n4k3d0rk]

Cheese triggers the same pleasure centers in the brain as hard drugs.

[@sukaenacornelius9285]

I live in Spain, and am from Iraq. I didn’t really mind cheese in US. But I do know for a fact it was a reason I would break out in acne and blemishes. Same with bread. In my home, we eat ALOT of cheese, taste better here in Spain🤭

[@NefariousKoel]

@@sukaenacornelius9285 I discovered, from a physician and my own trial & error, that everyone has a balance between protein and carbohydrates needed. If your ratio of carbs-to-protein is too high, it can cause acne outbreaks. I couldn't figure out what was going on for many years of eating minimal meat but mostly bread, grains, potatoes, etc. After I switched my diet back to more meat, the outbreaks started going away. It's different for different people, and I apparently require more protein than most. Perhaps it was the constant meat & veggies I had as a kid, growing up, and then the sudden change in adulthood. Wish I was informed of this magic ratio thing much earlier.

[@dkjphills79]

I was trying to think back and remember examples of cheese on things and immediately thought of school lunches. All sports teams got bag lunches with cheese on them, you had pizza Friday, cheese burger Wednesday, Taco salad with cheese, French fries with cheese, soft pretzel with side of cheese, and the list goes on. If you did a quick search Google says there are more that 11,000 schools in America... all eating cheese on an epic scale. Crazy story.

[@jlordmaximus]

Oh man do those blocks of cheese bring back memories. There was those weird cheese cutter devices with the thin wire that would cut you a slice of drastically varying degrees of shape and thickness, ranging from a millimeter to three quarters of an inch. And that's if it even got all the way through, sometimes it was easier just to give up and settle with half a slice of half inch thick. Those times you got an appropriate slice of the right thickness felt like championship moments.

[@BeerDave]

Hahahha... absolutely! I forgot about the cheese cutter thingy

[@kyledabearsfan]

I have a cheese wire like that lol I don't get to use it often but it's still fun in a frustrating way when I do lol

[@heresthething....4685]

Government cheese made the best grilled cheese sandwiches.

[@Pyromeds18D]

Buahahahaha I still have my cheese wire. 49 years old, I've had to replace the wire twice. Small gauge high E guitar string works the best

[@FUNZO1975]

​@@Pyromeds18D Thank you.

[@Emjay_blackdogranch]

Haha I love your obsession with beavers😂. My daughter cackled at the parachuting beavers today

[@GoldPicard]

I've delivered and picked up at both the Springfield, MO Underground and the smaller facility in Carthage, MO and let me tell you being in a truck that's 13'6" tall it's kind of weird having 30+ feet of ground above my head not only that but also having enough space to maneuver my 70' vehicle. Oh and the Springfield Underground also has dedicated railroad service to it.

[@autumnc7215]

It's a massively huge complex under the city that a lot of people don't realize is under their feet.

[@silverjohn6037]

So that's where they'll build the giant transforming robot when the time comes? Now all we need is a cheese powered reactor;).

[@TheCoyote808]

Had a buddy show up for one of those loads with three other drivers. Dude has bad claustrophobia and they stuck his truck in the middle of their group heading down into the Springfield site. Dude started having panic attacks during the drive in. They made it to the dock but he froze when told him where to put his trailer and one of the other drivers had to back his truck in for him so they could get everybody loaded up. So even though those tunnels are FREAKING HUGE, some people just can't live without the feeling of open air around them.

[@TheCrazed1]

I knew that Kraft has a major storage facility in the underground for their Springfield plant but I always thought that was short term storage. I didn't know there was long term government storage there as well.

[@GoldPicard]

​@Coyote808 if that's how he was at Springfield or Carthage where the roofs are at least 40 feet high I wonder if he'd even be able to get past the doors of the KC facility because every video I've seen shows a roof only 14 foot high...

[@stevenhargett2491]

I remember blocks of cheese being delivered to my Grandparent's house when I was a kid. Never knew why, but now I do. This channel is awesome!

[@andybovee827]

As a poor kid in the 80s, I absolutely loved government surplus cheese. It was the best!!

[@dustinpribble1546]

Yup, as an over the road truck driver I've actually been inside the Springfield Caves as well as, i believe, a Cave hoard in Kansas city or that general area

[@Bodie2020]

That was absolutely the best cheese I have ever eaten. Everyone I know who remembers eating loved it. My parents used to buy it from families who got it.

[@fernandorosales2418]

I used to trade a guy a bottle of jack Daniel's for his government cheese. That stuff was soooo good.

[@marcd2743]

@@fernandorosales2418 And by "a bottle of Jack Daniels" you mean your Vienna sausage. If times were tough, it wasn't gy.

[@TheNaturalnuke]

@@marcd2743ain’t ever trading to Top 😔

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

At least the government is doing something right. They make good cheese. I wonder how many kids went home and asked parents if they could be poor so they could get the government cheese? I wouldn’t put it past them!

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

I had to explain Gubba Mint cheese to a German and a few Aussies a few times. Their reactions were just the kind of "Interesting" you get when people are in between laughter and genuine interest.

[@aking-plums6985]

Daft question mate, what is Gubba Mint cheese?

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

@@aking-plums6985 Wish I could tell ya

[@aking-plums6985]

@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree Hi mate, is it that bad?

[@jamesgoff7270]

Its slang for government cheese

[@aking-plums6985]

@@jamesgoff7270 Cheers mate, I definitely missed that one!!! In the immortal words of Moss from the IT Crowd "Egg and my face were in alignment"

[@shadygingergarage]

I've delivered loads (not the cheese) to the caves in Springfield, MO. It is a MASSIVE facility. MILES of caves all outfitted for 70ft tractor trailers to maneuver within. It was originally an underground rock quarry that was later repurposed.

[@Michael-ex8lk]

Why raid area 51 when you can raid the strategic cheese reserve instead?

[@100GTAGUY]

​@@Michael-ex8lk id rather get probed by aliens than a 5lb block of cheese personally haha

[@ASoberBear]

The absurdity of this entire project is something so stupid that only our federal government could possibly have come up with it. No one whose own money was on the line would ever attempt this…

[@LOBricksAndSecrets]

When Botis Yeltsin visited the United States and saw a fully stocked supermarket, he learned that there was no way the Soviets could have won the Cold War

[@jsquared1013]

The latter part of the story might be apocryphal, but the version I heard included him believing it was a psyop/potemkin village type of thing (i.e. a fake setup to trick him into thinking the US was stronger than it really was), so off the cuff they took him to a second supermarket a little bit further away so he'd see that it wasn't a one-off propaganda piece, that they're all like that and each city has a bunch of them.

[@rick_b8s]

09/16/1989 - Boris Yeltsin and a handful of Soviet companions made an unscheduled 20-minute visit to a Randall's Supermarket ... On 09/21/1959, Nikita Khrushchev visits a supermarket outside San Francisco, causing a media frenzy. Khrushchev’s security forms a protective wall around the Premier as customers swarm him and photographers climb grocery displays to try to get a shot of Khrushchev inspecting American produce, deli meats and frozen dinners. --- HOWEVER --- The Supermarket USA exhibit at the 1957 Zagreb International Trade Fair was an eye opener for Khrushchev, Tito, and countless other comunist regime officials. "In the hands of the Americans, supermarkets weren’t shops. They were weapons of counter-revolution. As Nelson Rockefeller put it: “It’s hard to be a communist with a full belly.” --- www.theneweuropean.co.uk/cold-war-supermarket-yugoslavia/

[@billmanning1089]

Speaking as one who DOES have a "dairy allergy" , I can safely and honestly attest that YES, I do in fact eat that damn cheese anyway!

[@persnikitty3570]

Not sure if you know, but lactose, or the milk sugar, is consumed by bacterial strains used in the making of semi-hard and hard cheeses. This makes those a bit more tolerable. Soft cheeses, or your very fresh table cheese, will most likely cause deep regret while contemplating Life, the Universe and Everything. This from a hobbyist curdnerd, a hobby which pays for itself in sales.

[@billmanning1089]

@@persnikitty3570 there's a difference between Lactose Intolerance and Dairy Allergy. In an allergy, you're actually allergic to the proteins found within the dairy product. Cheese still contains these proteins.

[@Joeseph113]

This is perfect. I just had several of my UK coworkers in town 2 weeks ago for an event and they loudly bemoaned the cheese on EVERYTHING here and couldn't understand why we would do this to our food. Link So Sent!

[@mcfarofinha134]

why wouldn't we do this to our food?

[@OldishGoalie]

I'm sorry, I don't understand the words "pizzas with way too much cheese on them". That's like honest politicians... They do not exist!! 😂

[@SilkiesPb]

Keep diving down these rabbit holes. I’d watch a straight hour of this!

[@benm5913]

Strategic resource management is cool. - Every log guy ever.

[@jtreed3296]

It is 100% true and I'm proud to be one of the millions of truckers that feeds the Federal Cheese Reserve

[@Galaar]

Thank you for your service.

[@sapotec2k]

In 2010, the California Dairy Advisory Board created an ad campaign centered around a fictional rock artist named WHITE GOLD. These commercials are EPIC!! They bang pretty hard: "One Gallon Axe" and "Is it me, or do you love my hair?" and ESPECIALLY the entire 22 minute long rock opera "Battle for Milkquarious". I would LOVE to see the Fat Electrician's response to these videos. They are currently available here on KZbin. I had completely forgotten how awesomely, horribly brilliant they are. You could single handedly reignite the madness that is WHITE GOLD!!

[@roymuerlunos2426]

So what you're saying is that if the Fallout series becomes a reality and we're trading caps as currency, it's backed by ingots of cheese

[@the_fat_electrician]

there shoulda been way more cheese in fallout

[@arsenalxa4421]

I had a coworker who would eat a two pound block of cheese for his breaks. It's a wonder he was never backed up with as much cheese as he ate on the regular.

[@darkalleyrambler8520]

As someone who can and quite happily had done so at times, I always find the getting backed up comments equally mysterious. Just what does cheese do to you poor souls?

[@dfreeman16s]

​@@darkalleyrambler8520 those are the lactose intolerants. Aka commie swine.

[@gmailquinn]

​@@darkalleyrambler8520 I agree

[@1anthonybrowning]

The body gets use to it. If suddenly cut off things might get a little loose.

[@cryamistellimek9184]

Oh… he might be me.

[@xFrankie107x]

Had a rough day at work yesterday but this video reminded me there are always cheddar days. I’ll see myself out.

[@aditter1]

Shoveled shit for 18 years growing up on our dairy farm in Wisconsin. Best childhood in the world. One days once all the slave labor (my 2 brothers and myself) moved off the farm for paying jobs, then one day the herd was sold. My father stated that the neighbors who bought some of cows they could always tell which ones where ours, because they like to stand in the aisle and be petted.

[@jodiemirowski2980]

This is, by far, one of the greatest educational videos that you have done!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@the_fat_electrician]

Glad you think so!

[@DirectorNeumiller]

Been a fan since the start and you still have not ceased to entertain, educate, and make me groan at the dad jokes! Keep up the awesome content creation!

[@ethanspringer8190]

I love that you opened with this has nothing to do with the military and proceed to deliver one of your greatest videos yet🤣🤣🤣 I love everything you do!!!

[@brolohalflemming7042]

There is a military angle. Just send it to Ukraine. How they launch it, and how far they launch it is their problem. Although I'm sure the DMI will be happy to sell consultancy services to the US government. Weaponised cheese is the future of warfare!

[@1ElonFan]

There is no small dairy farms left in rural america just a handful of larger farmers with huge herds...

[@jordanbendia2139]

This video was beautiful. As a cheese addict i love the idea of cheese becoming a currency during the apocalypse

[@renly_VA]

As a kid growing up in Springfield and having field trips into said caves. I'm so glad people are finally learning about these 😅

[@spartin1173]

But did y’all get free cheese to take home with you after? Because otherwise its a completely wasted field trip

[@Parasite76]

I drive past Springfield underground several times a week. It’s a really cool place and they are doing a massive expansion. Go Cheese !!

[@jaredray7034]

If we subsidize cheese…… Then why the heck do I still have to pay three dollars for extra cheese at Pizza Hut??!!

[@michaelclark587]

As a tax paying American, I would like to know who was paid to cut the cheese. 😂

[@Deucalion289]

Gives a whole new meaning to government cheese.

[@the_fat_electrician]

wait till you see the whole vid lol

[@gdubya83]

I saw a Lay's or whoever pick your flavor contest parody and someone did a meme of Gub'ment Cheese

[@lairdcummings9092]

It's the very definition of government cheese - and the origin.

[@pyeitme508]

@@the_fat_electrician LOL!

[@anthonymcnatt3799]

Wtf😂

[@JH-we1qc]

Man the wisconsinite in me is happy my fave youtube channel posted back to back dairy related videos.

[@the_fat_electrician]

LOL 😆 🤣

[@joshcorris]

I was definitely not aware of this until I saw this video! I'm teaching an animal nutrition class at present and have included a link to this video in my lecture on the dairy cattle industry!

[@heatmizer-jim6762]

You never fail to simultaneously inform me factually, and make me laugh uproariously! Love these GREAT vids!

[@homiedaclown4381]

As soon as I saw an 11 minute Fat Electrician video, I knew some crazy shit was gonna happen

[@MuzzleThump]

Last weeks video was about ice cream, this weeks video is about cheese…really putting the fat in TFE huh? 😂

[@the_fat_electrician]

absolutely

[@TraderDan58]

I’m a truck driver and I’ve been to the underground storage facility in Springfield. It’s pretty cool. 😎

[@txusmc69]

I showed my Vietnam vet SeaBee neighbor your 1st SeaBee video. He liked it and said it was accurate lol.

[@the_fat_electrician]

That's awesome!

[@cdvoices]

Someone needs to pitch the idea of a 'tsunami of cheese hitting areas around the bases after a nuke attack in WW3" to MeatCanyon.

[@johngault7329]

As a kid in the 80s, my aunt got government cheese every month. It was the best cheese ever..

[@Lendorien]

Good lord. Every once and A while a video comes out that makes me glad I watched it. I vaguely remember hearing about government cheese. I had no idea that's what it was.

[@hailstormtrenhaile114]

Love your videos. I really liked your video on the experimental grenade launchers and also the times when America lost its cool on Christmas. I bet you can create another video like these, but all the times the United States military had to improvise. I know you have done a lot similar to this, like the Vietnam War trucks, PT boats and the Howitzer bunker buster. Just an idea and keep doing what you best.

[@jdoggybizzle]

I am watching this now from one of the underground caves in Carthage MO with a load of cheese in my rig.

[@TruckSenpai]

As a trucker I can confirm the existence of cheese filled caves and yes they’re cool

[@deltavee2]

6:16 The little girl's scream in "the guy loses arms" commercial is priceless.

[@Duckboyee]

The cheese caves sound like a level in a weird fps game.what would the Chinese think if they were invading and they just found a bunker door that led to a room full of 50 or so million pounds of cheese?you are the best 😂

[@armoredcoreexile]

I'm stuck in line at a short staffed Arby's, and this is the greatest thing I could have enjoyed while waiting fifteen minutes just to ORDER.

[@mrexists5400]

The only time that "too much cheese" is a bad thing is when I'm not eating it.

[@t.michaelbodine4341]

It’s pretty remarkable. It puts into perspective how genuinely wealthy this country is. We have a fucking strategic cheese reserve.