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did have to look up the Norwegian Butter Crisis Of 2011.......

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis

 

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The crisis prompted a variety of responses from individuals and organizations in Norway and neighbouring countries. A Norwegian newspaper sought to attract new subscribers by offering them a half kilogram of butter, while students auctioned butter on the Internet in a bid to raise funds for graduation parties.[14] A number of individuals were apprehended by the authorities for attempting to smuggle butter across the border,[15] while Swedes posted online adverts offering to drive butter to Norwegians at prices of up to NOK 460 (€59; £50; $77) per packet.[16] Danish dairy businessman Karl Christian Lund sought to drum up demand for his own butter by handing out thousands of packs in Kristiansand and Oslo,[1] while Swedish supermarkets offered free butter to Norwegian customers to entice them to do their shopping across the border.[17] On the Swedish side of the southeastern border at the Svinesund, stores reported selling twenty times as much butter as normal, with nine out of ten buyers being Norwegians.[18] A Danish television show broadcast an "emergency appeal" for viewers to send butter and gathered 4,000 packs to be distributed to butter-starved Norwegians.[7] Danish airports and ferries crossing the straits between the two countries kept a stock of butter in their duty-free stores.[19]

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