beer Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Fat-happy Norwegians seem to have eaten themselves into a corner, and that corner is bereft of butter. A popular fat-rich fad diet sweeping the country is turning into a butter shortage that could affect Christmastime baking.Reuters reports that the butter shortage is due to a "low-carb" diet, wherein dieters take in a higher amount of fat."Sales all of a sudden just soared, 20 percent in October then 30 percent in November," Lars Galtung, the head of communications at TINE, the country's biggest farmer-owned cooperative told Reuters.Coupled with ridiculous human tendencies to do what everyone else is doing, Norway's wet summer has reduced the quality of animal feed, which in turn lessens the milk output and thereby makes it harder to produce as much butter. Norway might even start trading oil for some of the greasy yellow goodness.With the country's butter slowly leaking away, auction websites are getting in on the game, with a 250-gram piece going for a starting price of $13, about four times higher than usual. Neighboring Denmark is chock-full of butter, but high import taxes in Norway means no outside butter aid.(source)Related article:While Norway is reeling from a severe butter shortage, causing some to try to smuggle the stuff in across the border and others make a killing on the black market, Swedes can relax in the knowledge that their Christmas baking is safe. A Russian man was caught on Friday trying to bring 90 kilogrammes of butter over the Swedish border to Norway without paying the custom duty.(source)This is insane... butter trafficking? imagine some guy in a street corner with a sign "Sex for YOUR BUTTAAA" :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanon Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 MAN, is this stupid!!!!A fat diet?! :wtf: :wtf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. i wonder if Norwegians have ever heard of, you know, that thing called exercise? or those strange things called vegetables? W00T 1,000 posts lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beer Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 W00T 1,000 posts lol.:cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 April Fools in December? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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