Norway Butter Shortage

[Toast]

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An acute butter shortage in Norway, one of the world's richest countries, has left people worrying how to bake their Christmas goodies with store shelves emptied and prices through the roof.

The shortfall has been blamed on a rainy summer that cut into feed production and therefore dairy output of milk by 25 million litres, but also the ballooning popularity of a low-carbohydrate, fat-rich diet that has sent demand for butter soaring.

With butter sold out in the shops, Thomas Willoch had to get butter by other means.

"When we visited Germany some days ago we bought butter," he said.

The shortfall, expected to last into January, amounts to between 500 and 1,000 tonnes, said Tine, Norway's main dairy company, while online sellers have offered 500-gramme packs for up to 350 euros .

That's over $100 USD for a stick of butter!

There's even a butter smuggler!

Last Friday, customs officers stopped a Russian at the Norwegian-Swedish border and seized 90 kilos of butter stashed in his car.

Poor Norwegians might have to start using margarine.

[Netphorian Gadabout]

Am I the only one who thinks its hilarious Toast is reporting on a butter shortage?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Pumpkins23836

Am I the only one who thinks its hilarious Toast is reporting on a butter shortage?

[Toast]

ELK RUN HEIGHTS, Iowa --- Black Hawk County sheriff's deputies are looking for a thief who slipped away with a truckload of margarine.
The spread, about $50,000 worth, was packed into a semi trailer bound for the Target Distribution Center in Cedar Falls.
It apparently arrived early, and the truck driver left the trailer at an Elk Run facility on Plaza Drive to wait until the warehouse had space, said Capt. Rick Abben with the Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office. Another truck was slated to pick it up for the the last leg of its journey.
But sometime Saturday night, a driver hooked up the margarine trailer and drove off, according to the sheriff's office. The theft was discovered Sunday and reported to authorities.
No arrests have been made; the incident remains under investigation.


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Shit just got real.

[Elvis The Fat Years]

its not hard to make butter.

but butter makes me hard.

[duovamp]

Not so fucking hot now, are you Norway?

USA! USA! USA! Our contry's the size of a fucking continent! Come at us bros.

[Rickpat12]

Originally Posted by Pumpkins23836

Am I the only one who thinks its hilarious Toast is reporting on a butter shortage?

came here to post this. HAHA

[Dead Frequency]

Originally Posted by duovamp

Not so fucking hot now, are you Norway?

USA! USA! USA! Our contry's the size of a fucking continent! Come at us bros.

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[Trotskilicious]

nothing says america quite like bigfoot

[slunken]

i had to take my hat off

[duovamp]

Laugh all you want, but fuck you we got Big Foot.

[Trotskilicious]

man thems some big ole turs ain't thay look how small that man is

[Dead Frequency]

Lol!

[Dead Frequency]

I wonder why they never incorporated monster trucks into the US military.