Diet craze and butter

The soaring popularity of a fat-rich fad diet has depleted stocks of butter in Norway creating a looming Christmas culinary crisis.

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.

Butter is now selling on Norway’s top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13 (8.28 pounds), roughly four times its normal price.

In Romania, a normal piece of butter is somewhere under 2 euros and most of the products are only close to butter. Actually I don’t know if they are contain real butter as most Romanians prefer margarine, cause it is cheaper. Also the climate is hotter than in Norway so I think that the demand for fat-rich products is weaker.

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