[URL]http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/12/07/diet-butter-norway-idINDEE7B60JL20111207[/URL]
[release][B](Reuters) - The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.
[/B][B]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.
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"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.
[U]Butter is now selling on Norway's top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13[/U], 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.[/release]
This reminds me of the [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1139711"]previous substance crisis.[/URL]
Danes laugh, we are not exporting to the norweigns because we are waiting they are surrendering their 180 year revolt against us.
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;33640179]Brb buying butter and moving to the Nordic country's to end the butter famine and get very very rich.[/QUOTE]
Norway would that scheme work, butter think up a new one to increase your profit margarine.
A diet...
By eating fat...
[video=youtube;r2xDJPc-yaM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xDJPc-yaM[/video]
i miss my real butter.
its christmas soon, and our traditional christmas food requires alot of butter.
[QUOTE=Baldr 2.0;33640179]Brb buying butter and moving to the Nordic country's to end the butter famine and get very very rich.[/QUOTE]
Then rub the butter all over your body and have Norwegian chicks lick your body.
Give us some oil and I may give some butter.
What in the hell?
Butter is almost all saturated fat, you should be cutting it out of your diet, not increasing your intake of it.
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Rate me box forts, mixed up better with margarine. :v:
Fad diets are stupid. Go on a real diet ffs.
I don't eat that kind of butter so luckily I've managed to survive for a while now. The rest of my family didn't make it.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;33640432]What in the hell?
Butter is almost all saturated fat, you should be cutting it out of your diet, not increasing your intake of it.[/QUOTE]
Butter is tons healthier than any shitty artifical margarine. And tasty. And it's not like you'd normally eat enough butter for the fat in it to have any real effect on you.
Margarine is healthier than butter because margarine barely has any saturated fats as margarine comes from vegetables and plants, while butter is filled with saturated fats as it comes from animals, and your body has much more trouble breaking saturated fats as those have double or triple bonds between carbons.
Edit: bollocks, I messed saturated and unsaturated up.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;33640432]What in the hell?
Butter is almost all saturated fat, you should be cutting it out of your diet, not increasing your intake of it.[/QUOTE]
For christmas cakes you surely need butter.
Its not really a crisis i my family. Think some people overreact.
Like everyone can live without butter for a few months.
[QUOTE=Lazore;33640981]Its not really a crisis i my family. Think some people overreact.
Like everyone can live without butter for a few months.[/QUOTE]
Obviously not.
It would be hilarious if this somehow started the trade wars we are supposed to eventually have.
I'll mail some butter to my Scandinavian brothers.
None shall be without butter this holiday season! Huzzah!
[quote]Like everyone can live without butter for a few months.[/quote]
NO.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;33640613]Why does the artificial part of margarine make it bad?[/QUOTE]
because ~chemicals~
because jerking cow tits and fermenting the juice and then churning it into butter is so much more natural
I eat butter, much better than that shitty margarine... eugh... also it hasn't made me fat
so anyone who thinks butter is bad and unhealthy is wrong
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;33640679]I don't think you folks realise that fat diets are incredibly effective. Someone I know lost 12 kilos in two months.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, the Low Carb High Fat diet is extremely effective for losing weight, and it's a lifestyle you can easily live with, unlike many other low-fat diets where you often tend to gain weight after you've lost it.
The diet seems to be very popular in scandinavian countries. Me and a lot of people I know have lost weight by eating food high in fat and low in carbs. So before you facepunchers start criticizing it by reasoning with "durr you can't eat fat to lose fat", maybe you should do some research on LCHF.
Danes handing out butter to needy Norwegians
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[QUOTE=Contag;33642090]because ~chemicals~
because jerking cow tits and fermenting the juice and then churning it into butter is so much more natural[/QUOTE]
The reason why I prefer butter over margarine is because margarine tastes and smells like crap.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;33640425]Give us some oil and I may give some butter.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.butterforoil.com[/url]
Wow I should buy all the butter and [i]moove[/i] it over to Norway so I can [i]milk[/i] this crisis for all it's worth.
Didn't know HL3 was getting presented on Norway.
who needs fucking butter?
We can make our own.
Oh wait! We don't live in that time anymore. We're being controlled to not make our own stuff anymore.
Back in the old times, everyone made butter out of milk.
Government control.
And of course.
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My fellow Freemason brothers.
[QUOTE=Bordercrosser;33642194]Indeed, the Low Carb High Fat diet is extremely effective for losing weight, and it's a lifestyle you can easily live with, unlike many other low-fat diets where you often tend to gain weight after you've lost it.
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It's strange if you think about it since carbohydrates are the biomolecules the body has the easiest time transforming into energy.
Eating fat doesn't make you fat, although most of the world doesn't seem to understand this yet.
Same thing with cholesterol. People still think if you eat cholesterol then it will raise your blood cholesterol levels.
So.... Sweeden and Norway. We got whatcha need... For the right price!
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