Norwegian Butter Shortage

[Allan]

One of the more bizzare stories I've ever heard, but according to reports, Norway has run out of butter, with people paying around 4 times the normal price via auction websites.

 

A "Russian entrepreneur" has already been caught trying to smuggle 90 kilos of butter into Norway, over the border from Sweden...

 

Diet craze leaves Norwegians starved of butter

 

(Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.

 

Norwegians have eaten up the country's entire stockpile of butter, partly as the result of a "low-carb" diet sweeping the Nordic nation which emphasizes a higher intake of fats.

 

"Sales all of a sudden just soared, 20 percent in October then 30 percent in November," said Lars Galtung, the head of communications at TINE, the country's biggest farmer-owned cooperative.

 

A wet summer which reduced the quality of animal feed and cut milk output by 25 million litres had already limited supplies and the shortage has led some pundits to suggest the world's eighth-largest oil exporter offer some of its plentiful fuel supply in exchange for butter.

 

"Norwegians are not afraid of natural fats, they love their butter and cream," Galtung told Reuters.

Butter is now selling on Norway's top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13 (8.28 pounds), roughly four times its normal price.

 

Just weeks before Norwegians will be expecting to eat plenty of buttery traditional biscuits and other homemade Christmas treats made with love and the liberal inclusion of dairy products, residents of the world's second-richest per-capita country can't even hope for help from a friendly neighbour who is rolling in butter.

 

Top dairy producer Denmark lies just across a narrow sea channel, but its stores of creamy butter will be kept out of the country by the high import duties of Norway, the only Nordic nation that does not belong to the European Union.

 

Still, the problem has certainly provided the Danes with a good laugh over their richly buttered breakfast toast.

Morning TV show Go' Morgen Danmark amid much hilarity offered a paltry 1,000 packets of butter on Wednesday to help ease the pain.

 

Norway faces butter shortage

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

"Sales all of a sudden just soared, 20 percent in October then 30 percent in November," said Lars Galtung, the head of communications at TINE, the country's biggest farmer-owned cooperative.

 

Is this another Code stat?

[Hazel Motes]

"We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat."

[Trucker Paddy]

EUR1 a pound of dairygold on my local convenience store this week, fill your boots Code

[Paulie Dangerously]

Last tango in Oslo

[zigackly]

If any Norwegian ladies are reading this, I've got the butter for your muffin.

[Guest TK-421]

First that massacre and now this. A really bad year for Norwites everywhere.

[Strontium]

Last tango in Oslo

 

 

I came into the thread to tag it with that, dammit!

[Code]

How this have even become a story I'll never know.

 

There is one brand of this kind of butter they have sold out from Tine, people are mainly taking the piss with this I hope even if its all over every newspaper in Norway.

 

Talk about having problems, here we have the rest of Europe on the verge of collapse and the one problem we have in Norway is that we are out of one special type of butter that are used for christmas cookies or whatever they use it for, personally I've never ever bought it.

 

It almost makes you ashamed to be a Norwegian, but I'm not surprised only last year there was set up a help line for thsoe who could not get the right type of meat for their christmas dinners because there was supposedly a shortage of that as well.

 

God help us the day some real problems should occur.

[TheHowieLama]

What about that nutterbutter at the summer camp?

 

Horse meat tastes like dog without the garlic butter.

[Code]

What about that nutterbutter at the summer camp?

 

He has been declared insane or paranoid schizofrenic if you like and cant be hold accountable for his actions.

 

He will not end up in jail but at the azylum.

[TheHowieLama]

He has been declared insane or paranoid schizofrenic if you like and cant be hold accountable for his actions.

 

He will not end up in jail but at the azylum.

 

They never are.

[VladimirIlyich]

Is this the origin of 'butter wouldnt melt?'

 

I wouldnt be so keen to eat so much of it when you live in the land of the Polar Bear.

[kop]

The whole story is a joke. I was in the store today, loads of butter there. Didn't buy.

[Code]

Exactly, when I went yesterday the only butter sold out was Tine "Ekte smør" and the problem was it had not been delievered.

 

Its pathetic really but it also tells a story about how lucky we are to live in this country at the moment.