Norway out of butter

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By Paula Duffy on 2011-12-12

Norway is experiencing a shortage of butter that is being attributed to a weight-loss program sweeping the nation as well as a wet summer that affected the quality of animal feed.

Norway's citizens are enamored of a diet that preaches that higher fat intake while limiting carbohydrates on a daily basis is the path to weight loss. As a result, butter has soared in usage to such an extent that butter is unavailable in certain regions of the country.

It has reached a stage that headlines are popping up in the country's newspapers. Finnish website Helsingin Sanomat reports now that the shortage has spread to Finland.

Norwegian grocers are rationing the sale of butter and it has only added to the panic that traditional Christmas treats are in danger this season. To combat that, Norway's citizen bakers are buying from what government officials are calling a "black market" of butter.

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http://www.huliq.com/10061/norway-out-butter-black-market-sales-soar

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Barbra says "No!'

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Sounds more serious than Britain's lard crisis a couple of years ago. nt

[LuvNewcastle]

4. Dairy farmers should be doing well these days.

I love butter and especially cheese, but it's getting difficult for me to afford either. Of course, I don't know what they're expenses are now.

[Lars77]

5. This is weird, i havent been home to Norway since April but..

I dont understand why they just cant import from the other countries. Oh well, i guess life will go on.

We made it through 22. July so we can´t lose our shit over a butter crisis