If you don’t know Kerrygold or any imported butter is illegal to sell in Canada our dairy industry is very protected so I just got back from Amherst and picked up $100 worth of butter I’m so excited to start baking my croissants with this.
by carlena777
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Just wondering- how does this butter differ from what you can get in Canada?
Good haul! Just this morning I was wondering if I could find a way to go down and buy some of that butter.
can i be your friend and neighbour please, ahahha. the isigny butter is sold at some shops in st lawrence market in toronto but they cost an arm and a leg.
This is the most Canadian thing I’ve ever read.
Excellent work!
I just baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies w/Kerrygold. Best. Cookies. Ever.
Well the maternity leave sucks but this made me grateful to live in the US, I won’t take my butter for granted again 🤣
Why don’t they sell kerrygold in Canada? 🤔
The things I’d do for some Kerrygold up here in Canada !
That’s great! I’m going to Canada to buy some wine.
Ppl like to shit on the US, and rightfully so for our health system and employment rules, but our food system makes for unbeatable prices on meat and dairy.
Never enough Kerrygold!
Lived in Canada for 23 years snd I’m just finding out that this is why I can’t find good butter at the grocery store😂
Haha I do the same too ! I buy kerrygold and the Aldi Irish butter. Sad we literally have a dairy cartel over here.
D’Isgniy is my favorite atm! Happy baking!!
Haha! This is amazing. I’m quite certain you guys have a President Canada location, and I’d be a bit surprised if Beurre D’Isigny didn’t also have some local workaround.
See if you can find beurre sec or beurre de tourage, both of which come in 84% fat (standard blocks are great too @ 82%!)
Beurre is crack!!
So you’re the butter bandit who caused the sudden shortage of Kerrygold in western New York…
I can understand the hustle. Kerrygold is gold.
Fun story: I was at a holiday dinner with family, and my family member put Kerrygold out on the table as a part of the spread. I thought it was cheese. I cut a thick slice of it, put it on a cracker, and ate it. Realized what happened a few chews in. Had to commit, you can’t spit out Kerrygold.
Worth it for the superior Canadian baking, I say! Now, what delectable treat are you planning to use all that glorious butter in? Asking for a friend who might also “smuggle” some… 😉
Next time I highly recommend finding some el presidente too! Or Amish rolled butter
And some smirnoff vodka to calm your nerves
The fact that you snuck it home will improve the flavor dramatically. 😂. Contraband butter and booze from Northern Ireland had similar appeal.
I’m in Canada and recently, my friend from the US came to visit me (we met on Reddit actually!) and she was pretty shocked to learn we didn’t have Kerrygold butter here, like, at all. I always knew it existed and thought it was weird I couldn’t find it, until I googled why.
She happened to have half a stick of butter with her that she left for me, now I wish I didn’t know what I was missing.
As a fellow Canadian I love this and also need to know what you said to the border patrol to smuggle the delicious gold in!
Butter Smuggler would be a great band name. Either that, or a phrase I wouldn’t want to look up on urban dictionary.
Canadian butter is TERRIBLE this past year or two .does not spread right, melt Right or even taste good anymore:(
Plugra butter was on a Buy One Get One sale for me the other day. I may have bought 20 pounds.
Tho you should look into the commercial suppliers. Gordon’s, PFG, and sysco have commercial outlets that normal people can shop at. Great savings.
Mind sharing what store (hopefully a chain thats also on the west coast) you got the Icelandic butter at?
That’s funny because I go to Canada for the French butter
Smjör is the best butter I’ve ever eaten. Better than Kerrygold, hands down. I ate that stuff with a spoon by itself in Iceland. I still dream about it. Great stuff.
I hope you aren’t the husband who takes the butter into the bathroom
Well, that’s some quality butter
I dunno where you live but I’m in Alberta and almost certain i have seen all of these butters in Calgary before. Even the French AOP stuff, which is great BTW.
Dairy industry? More like cartel. Any excess milk is also thrown out to keep prices up. It’s disgusting.
In saying that it is NOT illegal to sell imported butter or dairy. Costco was selling NZ butter not too long ago and you can buy French butter in some farmers markets albeit quite expensive.
The 35-page Kerrygold lawsuit says Kerrygold butter, sought after for its rich flavor and creamy texture attributed to grass-fed cows, is falsely advertised as “Pure Irish Butter” given that the sticks contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), man-made chemicals known to be harmful to humans and the environment. Per the case, PFAS persist and accumulate over time, and are harmful even at very low levels.
According to the suit, defendant Ornua Foods North America intentionally describes the products as “Pure Irish Butter” to drive sales and increase profits among health-conscious consumers who reasonably believe the products are free from artificial ingredients and harmful chemicals.
Just a pro tip for anyone wanting to go get your own butter: just because you have to declare it doesn’t mean you can’t bring it back. Canadians can buy most groceries in the states. Check AIRS if you’re unsure, and declare that you have groceries at $$ amount. They may want to look at your receipts. Most groceries are duty free, and even those that aren’t, border guards will *rarely* pull you in to pay, unless you’re acting weird.
-Canadian who lives on a border town and uses Kerry gold for all baking