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Europeans are having a cow

So what you ask?  Well it is not a cow in the traditional sense of a grilled piece of steak or a burger or a rib.  No sir.  Recent news would suggest that they are literally in a tizzy about not having enough butter to go around.

Apparently consumers want the real thing and not margarine or 'I can't believe its not butter' butter.  So Betty is trying to buy some real butter to make the batter better.

But Betty is finding prices doubled in the recent months and that makes Betty bitchy.  Turns out the cows are not chewing their cud fast enough to generate enough cow juice aka milk to then transform into butter.

So perhaps they might be thinking of not having a cow (on the plate) but to let the heifers roam the pastures for a while longer in the hope that the added milk yield would yield them some butter.

The folks east of them (politically called the middle east) are doing one better.  They as in the kings of Qatar are flying in the bovines (literally) from northern Europe (maybe causing some supply demand stress on the continent) to provide for the locals desire to get their fix of dairy and other byproducts.

Wonder if the cows flew business class - after all they were flying to Qatar for business - but getting milked in the bargain.   Utterly Butterly Ridiculous.

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