Too much rain made bad grazing for cows, low production of milk, no imports because of protectionism, tabloid journalism made idiots freak out, hoard butter, and pay ridiculous prices.
Just a reminder how things can go to shit when it is “regulated”.
I’m pretty sure we only had a butter crisis because people decided to hoard it because they thought we would run out of butter, and because of them we ran out of butter
Ah, the year I learned how to make butter
It wouldn’t have been a “crisis” if it hadn’t coincided with christmas. We bake a lot for christmas…
I made my own butter during that “crisis”, just to try it.
Only 1 type of butter ran out.
We still had 49 other types to chose from, and supply was great for those.
This story is a perfect example of how we cannot trust that we will always be able to import whatever food we need. As we speak we are heading into a time of wheat shortage since Russia and Ukraine produce a lot of the world’s wheat. Finland is much smarter than us, as they have huge emergency storage of wheat (and medicine). We stopped doing that in 2003….
Like most shortages in industrialized nations it was caused by hoarders.
Most people lacked butter, while a few sat on several kilograms each.
From what I heard it was lowered production combined with increased demand from things such as keto diets exploding.
Also the news scared people by saying things like “might not have enough butter for everyone for Christmas.” Then idiots freaked out and bought all the butter.
Yeah, that was bad. Worse than the gastromat crisis of 2019.
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Too much rain made bad grazing for cows, low production of milk, no imports because of protectionism, tabloid journalism made idiots freak out, hoard butter, and pay ridiculous prices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis
Ahh, good times.
Just a reminder how things can go to shit when it is “regulated”.
I’m pretty sure we only had a butter crisis because people decided to hoard it because they thought we would run out of butter, and because of them we ran out of butter
Ah, the year I learned how to make butter
It wouldn’t have been a “crisis” if it hadn’t coincided with christmas. We bake a lot for christmas…
I made my own butter during that “crisis”, just to try it.
A n ice summary of the whole incident:
https://satwcomic.com/too-little-butter
Only 1 type of butter ran out.
We still had 49 other types to chose from, and supply was great for those.
This story is a perfect example of how we cannot trust that we will always be able to import whatever food we need. As we speak we are heading into a time of wheat shortage since Russia and Ukraine produce a lot of the world’s wheat. Finland is much smarter than us, as they have huge emergency storage of wheat (and medicine). We stopped doing that in 2003….
https://www.nrk.no/norge/xl/hva-skal-vi-spise-hvis-grensene-stenges_-1.15914672
Like most shortages in industrialized nations it was caused by hoarders.
Most people lacked butter, while a few sat on several kilograms each.
From what I heard it was lowered production combined with increased demand from things such as keto diets exploding.
Also the news scared people by saying things like “might not have enough butter for everyone for Christmas.” Then idiots freaked out and bought all the butter.
Yeah, that was bad. Worse than the gastromat crisis of 2019.
Now don’t ask about the Gastromat crisis of 2019.