In Germany at the moment and the supermarkets are full of butter marked as Irish. Picture attached of Kerrygold, but there are also a few brands here we don’t have at home.
Not sure what the story is, but the label clearly states Irish Butter made from Irish milk.
The EU stamp on the back suggests that the origin is Germany.
Should I be outraged? Is this cultural appropriation? I might have to go to the town hall and request a permit to protest.
by Tzardine
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I’m triggered
Shipped in bulk containers and packaged in Germany? If it’s shipped in 100s or a 1000 tonne loads all the cardboard boxes to stack these must end up being a decent weight added and shipping by container ship or tanker costs less when it’s just product maybe
Salt
Grass fed with a higher fat content.
No German for “original”?
Or Butter?
If it has irish parents and was raised in ireland
“Irish” means a higher butterfat content. It’s softer, more flavourful, and has more natural color (which usually also comes with the cows being grass fed).
I travel internationally a lot, and it amazed me at first how there’s almost a cult following of our butter, especially Kerrygold. That is until I tried foreign butter. So it wouldn’t shock me to hear other countries using a label like that to attract people.
I am so happy that you can find Kerrygold in nearly every country. If only we could also have our milk or strawberries when traveling.
I can’t get it in Canada 🙁
Kerrygold Irish Butter is made in Mitchelstown with Irish Milk. It’s shipped as pallets of 20kg blocks to Germany. Pressed into small retail packs. So basically just repackaged in Germany.
Irish cows?
It’s like *produce of ireland* beef that’s actually from Brazil, just packaged here
The irish government should seek appellation on the term.
It’s got electrolytes.
D’ya fancy a bit of Irish in ya ?
Its not Irish butter if it isn’t made in the French state of Irlandé.
Kerry gold is the only way.
Anything else is pure shite.
In a rural Australian town, I bought Kerrygold today. IE 2107 EC. This the real stuff
Moo
If is irish milk it can be processed anywhere and be called irish butter. Is best to produce within the country you sell for dairy. Also the salt content should be max 2% i think (where the french is above 3% for example unless is demi sel then is 0.5 to 3%).
Are ye doin a bit of butterin’ are ye. Isn’t that fuckin’ mighty!
Irish butter has an unhealthy relationship with alcohol and pays extorionate rates for its csr insurance.
The stamp suggests that the milk is from Germany: “DE – NW” is North Rhine Westphalia. It certainly looks like false advertising then if they also say its made from irish milk.
You can probably ask Kerrygold for comment.
Proper butter
I can heartily recommend a trip to the Butter Museum in Cork, where you will receive enough information to answer this and plenty more questions you never knew you had about Irish butter… https://thebuttermuseum.com/
Ain’t dairy like Irish dairy.
Same butter, different packaging. It seems different countries are really set on what kind of cube shape their butter needs to come in.
From the stamp “Frische Weidemilch” I’d infer that the milk is shipped here (Irish man in Germany here) and then made into butter. Would make the most sense logistically I imagine. There’s a definite difference in taste between the Irish butters and their German counterparts.
Better bitter butter
They’re usually grazing on grass for most of the year so I think it makes the difference.
It’s quite yellow? Must be the special grass and dearth of infra red/ultra violet.
Yeah shipped in bulk as Kerrygold is not part of the dairy testing to rate the best products as all stages of the butter making process can’t be checked. There’s a report published about it every year.
Very German thing all together
It has to have at least one grandparent born in Ireland.
Who’s taking the pasteurised bulk milk to France? I mean Germany.
It’s a traceability code.
So the butter was sent in bulk to Germany and then portioned and final packaging applied in Germany.
Over 80% of kerrygold butter is exported internationally.
The butter itself is always made in Ireland though.
Be careful with that German gear, the packaging colour is inverted so the gold one is unsalted and the silver one is salted. “What the fuck is wrong with this toast??”
The biggest difference between the “Gold” packet Kerrygold in Ireland Vs Germany, is that the German version is unsalted.
Kerrygold is not actually from Ireland? WTF???
And here I was eating only from Kerrygold all my life, thinking “mmm this is some delicious Irish dairy stuffs with the fresh, Emerald Isle moo moo cowmilk from some untainted farmland in Connaught.”
The DE in the circle is an identifier of the place it was last packed or processed. It might be Irish butter that was bought in bulk and then packed into consumer sizes in a German plant.
We get it here in Texas no more bitch “buttery”spread for us only Kerry’s is the best yeehaw.