Mon Dieu! - A Crisis in France

[packman]

France’s much-loved croissant au beurre has run up against the forces of global markets.


Finding butter for the breakfast staple has become a challenge across France. Soaring global demand and falling supplies have boosted butter prices, and with French supermarkets unwilling to pay more for the dairy product, producers are taking their wares across the border. That has left the French, the world’s biggest per-capita consumers of butter, short of a key ingredient for their sauces and tarts.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/french-butter-melts-away-from-shelves-as-global-demand-soars

[elleng]

1. Finding butter for the breakfast staple has become a challenge across France.

[ornotna]

2. Plenty of French butter in the stores here

I can send a couple of sticks if gets really bad.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Maybe Wisconsin dairy farmers can send France a care package. nt

[sprinkleeninow]

5. Last nite on 60 Minutes (?) Crown Prince of Qatar

interviewed. Showed bunches of cows coming off freighter ships delivered to Doha, I think, from Calif., Wisconsin and PA. They're making agricultural land out of the desert. 🐮🐮🐮

[Irish_Dem]

7. Very interesting. Wisconsin cows will not be thrilled with desert.

The sheik better get some grass and hay....

[sprinkleeninow]

9. I sorta kinda heard. What I gathered is (with all their 'dough')

they're gonna transform desert into farm, agricultural land to accomplish having dairy products.

[sprinkleeninow]

10. "Money talks, nobody walks!" (Crazy Eddie) New Yawk, New Yawk

"Today only, FREE STEREO!"

[Don't mind me. Giddy! 🤗]

[Irish_Dem]

11. Wow, that is going to be a very interesting project.

Probably they will recruit some graduates of the midwest ag schools.

[pansypoo53219]

8. there is a cheese surplus.....

[GulfCoast66]

4. I just returned from a magical 3 weeks in France

The reports of butter’s demise is greatly exaggerated.

Croissants and even Pain Chocolate were available in great quantities!

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Visited France in the 70's after the U.K.

Magical it is.

Was not inexpensive for that time either.
My mom asked, "Was it worth it?" I replied, "Every penny!" We got married only a couple years before and we're not of wealth.

Glad we went then. Life takes you crazy places.
"Seize the moment."