Today I was at a grocery store and they had the butter behind the counter along with other dairy products. I asked for cheese, they gave it to me, then I asked for the butter and they said, they will physically accompany me to the cashier with the butter when I’m ready to pay.
Today I was at a grocery store and they had the butter behind the counter along with other dairy products. I asked for cheese, they gave it to me, then I asked for the butter and they said, they will physically accompany me to the cashier with the butter when I’m ready to pay.
@sopjap I'm really curious about the details of how this came about: what are the dynamics that make local production not profitable or at least not on the required scale? What keeps local butter out of urban supermarkets? Has there been any study on dairy and dairy processing etc?
@rochowanski @sopjap I’ve resisted commenting on this butter thing for as long as I can. Look sunflower seed oil is cheap and ridiculously cheap here. Just use that instead. Problem solved.
@glevonian @rochowanski Omg how do you think sunflower oil is the same as butter is beyond me. I don’t use butter to cook dude, that would be out of my price range. I use butter for bread and toast and baking!!
@sopjap @rochowanski I put it on toast. Actually prefer it to butter (and even olive oil, which is my usual butter replacement).
@sopjap @rochowanski For context, I consider noodles, rice, and bread the same food.
@sopjap @glevonian It reminds me of ~10 yrs ago when the agriculture advisor of the EU delegation in Tbilisi expressed his shock that Georgia, "the home of khachapuri", imported most of its wheat. I was thinking "how long have you been advising the Georgian govt on rural development?"