Shiland's butter plea
Shiland has made an emergency food appeal to Gamat…for butter, because a serious shortage is hampering Shilets' Christmas preparations. GH Gamat Dairies has refused the request for help.
An GH spokesperson told Hveðir.lg that the company does not trust itself not to run out of butter at home if it decided to export a sizeable block to Gamat.
Shiland's media are reporting that people are attempting to circumvent the butter shortage by offering huge sums of money. Half a kilogramme of the baking essential was sold online in Shiland recently for SHK 300 (Enieo 27).
The problem is not said to be stopping Christmas preparations in the Mottnar area, where people are simply crossing the border into East Shiland to buy butter — but other parts of the country are not so fortunate.
There are several reasons for the ‘crisis’ in Shiland; the biggest being the country’s strict agricultural production quotas, the fact that authorities did not expect home baking to be so extremely popular this Christmas, and the fact that prolonged wet spells this summer reduced the productivity of Shilet milking cows.
The large Utrish dairy Alia is also not willing or able to help, it has been told of plenty of people in Shiland asking their Gamic friends and family to send them butter in the post.