Butter Quality

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 3

Butter Quality

Sir, —I have recently, received this letter from a friend in England, who tells me: “The strange thing is that people over here don’t like New Zealand butter. They say it doesn’t taste like butter,, and they prefer Danish or English. I have been told that it is quite unlike the butter you eat, and that it has to be mixed when it gets here for trade reasons. .Probably no-one in New Zealand would like it, either! We do have it, and our milkman cannot understand why—he would not touch it himself. It would be very interesting to know more about this.” This is rhther disturbing news, and it would be interesting to hear other .opinions. —Yours, etc., JOAN GUNZ. July 30, 1958. [The director of the Dairy Industry Information Service (Mr C. Burnard) said that the generalisation ‘‘that people over here don’t like New Zealand butter” was palpably incorrect. New Zealand butter usually brought the second highest price of any butter sold in the United Kingdom and 146,200 tons of it were imported into the United Kingdom last year. Danish butter, a short-keeping, lacticflavoured butter, not unlike New Zealand farm butter, was preferred by some people and 87,000 tons of it were imported into the United Kingdom last year. On the other hand, in the south of England, consumers prefered New Zealand butter.]