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Re:Norwegian butter crisis (2011) by digi_owl on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @06:48AM (#9575474)
> The crisis was not really a great disaster and at the time there really were not a lot of people calling for deregulation.

Yep, it just fit the opposition party line of EU good, independence bad. And the press jumped on it as a "look how shitty our nation is" story.

Never mind that the previous months had seen the very same press lauding a high fat diet...

In the end it was pretty much a media created tempest in a teapot.

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Re:Norwegian butter crisis (2011) by tormeh on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @07:10AM (#9575551)
I didn't follow the mainstream press at the time and didn't even notice it happening. Had no butter problems at all. I only noticed it after the fact, because relatives talked about it.
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