EVERYTHING IS BETTER WITH BUTTER

​It is not that easy to keep up with tariff stories so I  might be very out of date by the time this goes out. I just wondered about butter. If Irish food exports were subject to tariffs which made them cost prohibitive then would this mean there is a glut available at source? Would we need to bury the butter in the bogs again to preserve the glut for the mean times… can you tell I obsess about this food? It brings back memory from childhood about my parents taking an organised bus trip from Portlaoise to a place in the North called Jonesborough in Armagh in the 70s. I remember boxes of butter coming back. Obviously worth travelling great distances as a group on a bus for this food. I guess the price was prohibitive at the time south of the border. I can’t say if this was a once off or a regular thing. But notable now when I dwell on the same desire to find good food. It seems too easy to get food but there is effort involved in the valuable stuff! The question I have today is how far will you go to get it? 

​Anne Maher