Smuggling Butter Swedes (Norway's butter shortage continues)

Two crafty Swedish men have been arrested in Norway, accused of smuggling 250 kg of fresh butter across the Norwegian border and attempting to sell it for £25 a packet to those butter starved Norwegians.

Norway has been without fresh butter for months, which Tine Dairies have blamed on lazy cows and fat cows (low production of milk - and people using up all the butter for high fat low carb diets).  The shortage is also due to the lack of other diaries being able to enter the norwegian market as Tine Dairies have monopoly.  Bah humbug.

Currently, the butter shortage is causing issues with getting hold of spread for Christmas - and people are taking to buying butter on the black market or making it themselves.

The Local's article quotes police officer Lars Letnes of the Nord-Trøndelag Police District as saying: “They allegedly sold the coveted butter packets in Beitstad Steinkjer before they drove north along the county road 17. Then they were stopped by a police patrol, which found 250 kilogrammes of butter in the small van.”

Because the butter was not declared at customs, it is deemed illigal and will be sent to be destroyed by the authorities.

Oh, dear, can you imagine the horror of 250 kilos of priceless butter being destroyed, watched by a group of butterless Norwegians?  Pure terror. 

Read the whole article here

you aint getting none of my milk for your butter obsession.  I'm on strike.

 

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It directly effects on Price elasticity demand.

[Jann Coles]

You could just use cheap crisco like the Americans! Ha ha