Vancouver Sun- Thieves made off with $200,000 worth of butter. A Christmas Day butter heist in Ontario is not the first time in history that sticky fingers have made off with the high-priced dairy product.
Vancouver Sun- Thieves made off with $200,000 worth of butter. A Christmas Day butter heist in Ontario is not the first time in history that sticky fingers have made off with the high-priced dairy product.
I’m ready here in the Muskoka’s…eyes open…wallet out.
Proving once again, there is no honor among criminals
Government intervention in markets at its finest.
When a crappy protectionist policy makes a dairy product pricier than fentanyl or a crate of smuggled Glocks, or a 1000 ft. of copper wire, of course butter pirates are going to lift it.
Besides climate change has made it so that you can leave your stolen treasure in the back shed and it won’t melt. Plus you are pretty much guaranteed a wonderful long winter of mom’s sugar cookies. Watch for the great vanilla heist of January 2022.
“Inflation may be to Blame?”
NO
Canada’s high priced dairy cartel would be my first one to blame. Prices have been very high for a while now.
I’m seeing a conspiracy unfolding…..first they released some syrup from the strategic reserve…..then they steal some butter….
next it’ll be flour and eggs…..
Keep your eyes peeled for a series of hot plate and frying pan smash and grabs at Canadian Tire
Be on the look out for some bloated, smiling, hung over criminals
Happy New Year
Oh, ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
That was really good!
When can we expect to see pancakes being sold on the street corners along with the weed and crystal meth?
If any makes it to my local flea market … I’m a buyer.
Don’t blame me. If Joe Bidnh and PM Poopy Pants want to turn our economies into lawless, post-Soviet black markets … then I’ll play by those default rules.
$200,000?
Soooooo, 7 lbs?
My freezer’s contents are currently worth 50k or so?
I’m roasting a chicken tomorrow, and will baste it with what is essentially liquid gold.
Happy New Year!!
DON’T STEAL !!!
The government hates competition.
No, it wants its cut. IRS wants the proceeds of crime to be included on tax returns.
Mike, so does the CRA. Back in the day, I was taught that income of any sort was to be reported; the presumption was that Rev Can (as it then was) had a firewall so illegal gains reported for tax purposes would not get through to the Mounties or other agencies. Can’t say I believed it, but did make a point of saying to the clients as they signed the form that “by signing this you are affirming that you are reporting your total income from all sources worldwide”.
Perhaps the stuff is difficult to obtain in large quantities in January as is required by the chocolate industry in preparation for Valentine’s Day, later St Paddy’s and even later, Easter and too slow to make in large quantities that is required. Here’s how it’s made by a chef:
https://youtu.be/jDq269e6w_c
P.S.
I once helped out a farmer’s wife the old fashioned way. In the month of July when the cows yield the most milk due to their eating fresh grass, the farmer’s wife collects milk and separates cream from the milk for several days. The cream is placed in a churner and churned in an up-down motion for at least one hour, in batches. The result, as seen in the video, has to be further squeezed of its liquid and then compressed, as seen in the video. Typically, the butter is for home and family and frozen in one pound quantities.
We used one like this.
https://img0.etsystatic.com/070/0/6551414/il_fullxfull.818966546_2lw4.jpg
This was the kind they had at the farm. Let’s say that my arms got a good workout that day! It’s hard work!
https://www.bargainjohn.com/product/butter-churn-5/
I’ve made butter that way, with heavy cream and a kitchenAid mixer. It’s very good.
A caveat , though, about that remaining “buttermilk.” It isn’t really. That is, it’s not particularly efible/drinkable and of course doesn’t have the wonderful tang that any buttermilk that you’ve ever tasted has.
Right. They threw away the squeezed out butter ‘milk’ if I remember correctly. I was too polite to say anything but honestly the butter tasted a bit like what the cows ate– grass, it was like tasting ones’ lawn. As for the consistency, okay, color, dark but okay, but way too greasy, imo but if one grew up with it one would miss it, I suppose. It was a precious thing. Often the farmer’s wife would give a few pounds away as gifts to precious and appreciative relatives or friends.
I remember that we made butter in elementary school.
Of course, one cannot be so adventurous these days.
What??? There isn’t enough maple syrup in Government Storage for the Mob to go after??? The Mob has demeaned themselves to filching dairy products to keep their financials in the black???
I’m guessing there will be cheap butter in ethnic corner stores across Ontario. Which ethnicity is still to be determined. Back in the day it would have been Italian.