By Anthony Aleman
I can’t believe there’s no butter! France is currently facing an enormous butter crisis, a shortage of butter that has shops and people in dismay. Bad weather, which has lowered the supply of cow feed, decreased exports from leading butter producer New Zealand, and the new diet trend of cutting fat and substituting with butter, after all it’s margarine-ally better.
According to the BBC the cost of 100 kgs of butter (a little over 220 lbs) has increased from about $527 to just over $791 since January early this year. That in churn means supermarkets in France will have a short supply of butter, luckily civilians of France have started stockpiling their butter when the decline started to become obvious.
These puns are rather ridiculous, but the issue is no laughing matter. The french famous pastry treat, the croissant, requires a lot of butter to make. According to WeekendBakery.com on their croissant recipe, 40 grams of butter are needed for a batch of croissants. But it’s not just croissants that will start to go under, all pastries featuring butter such as garlic butter, chicken kiev, puff pastry, Butterscotch… those favorites and many more will be facing a decline in produces in France.
Will this crisis see an end? Due to more Asian countries starting to enjoy
western foods and constant other variables affecting France’s ability to produce butter, one can only think… what if America ran out of cheese?