News and views from the Lard crisis. Really.
I know this isn't really a book-related topic, but I couldn't resist. I read in this week's issue of Newsweek that there's a lard shortage in Great Britain. This is apparently due to the fact that when Central and East European nations joined the European Union in May, their production standards weren't up to the strict EU standards. The new EU members had to rely on old members for cheap cuts of pork for making sausage and salami. With all the cheap cuts going out of England, there wasn't much left for making lard.
So what's a British pie maker to do? Fortunately, lardcrisis.com is here! Read the complete coverage of the lard crisis as it unfolds! Check the lard locator for supply-sightings! And, best of all, now you can meet all your lard wear needs!
So what's a British pie maker to do? Fortunately, lardcrisis.com is here! Read the complete coverage of the lard crisis as it unfolds! Check the lard locator for supply-sightings! And, best of all, now you can meet all your lard wear needs!
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My sister is in the process of moving from Norway to England. Because Norway is not part of the European Union, I figure that lard supplies there should be plentiful. I've suggested to my sister that she could make a killing by smuggling suitcasefuls of lard into Oxford and selling them on the lard black market to desperate British bakers. I have visions of a trenchcoat lined with thick, squishy, white bars... I don't know whether she'll take me up on this indisputably brilliant suggestion or not. Lard is almost entirely odorless, but the customs beagles would probably sniff it out anyway. The irony there is that if Norway _were_ an EU country, the customs regulations for bringing lard from there into England would be less strict. But, if that were the case, then Norway too would be lardless, so the whole idea would be moot.
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