Buncha greasy politicians.
Absolutely WONDERFUL stuff!
Health Benefits of Grassfed Cow Butter:
https://draxe.com/grass-fed-butter-nutrition/
The only brand equally as delicious is a cultured butter made by Organic Valley.
All the screaming from the Left about fascism. This is an example of textbook fascism. A private industry in bed with the government, and no doubt making political contributions, uses the government to kill competitors. That is textbook fascism . And by the way, once that Kerrygold butter; it's worth its price, which is about 2x that of regular butter.
I’m gunna have to try that stuff next time I make kaesespaetzle.
Kerrygold is a guilty pleasure.
You can buy that Walmart for a decent price. Good stuff.
It’s not illegal butter. It’s undocumented!
Here's the best deal on butter. Great product, great price
The Wisconsin dairy lobby has a well-deserved reputation for things like this being hidden in law.
The wiki page for Margarine tells some of the story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine
But if you do a search for Margarine Act of 1950 (yep, Truman signed such a thing) and see the many articles, you will find that margarine had quite a battle to become readily available in the U.S. And the Wisconsin dairy lobby held out the longest of any state...until 1967.
Looks like Kerrygold ran afoul of one of those obscure statutes.
LOVE Kerrygold. I cook with Land O’ Lakes, but for toast? Kerrygold in the tub. Exquisite!
Back in the early-mid 60’s, cardiologists told their heart attack patients to skip butter for margarine. (we know better now). Oleo was outlawed because Wisconsin was the #1 butter producing state in the U.S. and they wanted to protect the industry.
My family used to frequently drive from Chicago back to our native Milwaukee. Once you came within 10 miles of the border, there dozens of stores with “OLEO” signs. It was considered polite to bring a few pounds of oleo to a Wisconsin relative with heart problems. LOL!
I buy Kerrygold at Trader Joe’s.
On the other hand, when you go to a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Wisconsin, you get REAL butter with your biscuits, NOT “Better Spread”, due to similar laws deprecating margarine and other non-butter “spreads”.
The Irish folks can just slap an “Irish Gold” or some such on the label to get around the rule.
If you haven’t tasted Kerrygold, I can assure you it is definitely worth the drive across state lines. It’s pricey, but worth every penny.
Absimundo...tasty and BUTTERY...
puts most all others to shame. Maybe the occasional artesianal
pounds from the farmer’s market is better
I keep several cartons of the stuff in case Costco gets a wild hair and drops it.....
And yeah, I suspect they are protecting their own dairies.
I’m sure our servants in Washington could fix this with a judicious application of the commerce clause.
Shades of the fifties:
My parents used to smuggle oleo from Illinois into Wisconsin in a 54 Buick Roadmaster. Us kids would watch out the back window for the coppers and warn Dad when we saw one. If the copper came up behind us the high speed chase over hill and dale would be on. Gunfire, jacked up engines, tight turns at insane speeds, it was glorious! Like smoky and the bandit.
Ok, it was more like we smuggled a case or two per year and we were pulled over by the coppers only on those occasions when we had no butter in the trunk. But it was still exciting to an 8 year old.
Didn’t Wisconsin at one time also require that margarine be colored pink?
Is it wrong for me to get hungry after clicking on a butter thread?
A spokeswoman for Kerrygold said they’re looking at ways to comply with Wisconsin’s ridiculous labeling requirements.