I can understand why it is so expensive. It is because duty on Dairy products is so high to discourage people from buying it so that they will buy domestic produce instead. Why buy Clover, Kerrigold or Lurpak when you can buy the home-made variety? Trouble is, there isn't an alternative. Dairibord doesn't produce butter, neither does Suncrest Creameries. I cant find any Farm butter. The Dairy industry were whingeing that it was cheaper to buy imported milk, making their production costs high. So now, we can buy Dairibord milk cheaper but has this improved their product? It is still sour and watery, sometimes lumpy and reconstituted. The yoghurt is too tart, the cheese rubbery and tasteless. With all these market advantages, surely Dairibord can now be competitive and produce reasonably priced butter that isn't rancid and other dairy products that are edible?
Maybe the demand isn't there. Maybe its only those with their bum in the butter who are getting cheesed off. I shall just have to make my own........
