Ever wonder why U.S. agriculture gets such huge subsidies for things like corn and wheat? It turns out it's because we're trying to smother Nazis under flour drifts and build a corn bridge from London to the Black Sea. At least, that appears to be the contention of Disney animators in 1942.

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This video illustrates the might of American agriculture with increasingly nutso analogies, ranging from a loaf of bread the size of Red Square to a Great Wall of Butter. That's right, we've got amber waves of grain and they're pointed at YOU, Adolf!

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