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Vacationing in France as I write (but still reading HN). It was a surreal moment when our French family called before our departure asking if we could pack a jar or two for them!

I guess I won’t fully understand until a peanut butter shortage hits the States. We nonetheless took their request seriously :)

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I remember the butter crisis in Norway a few years ago. Just before Christmas, and everyone wanted to bake their families' traditional cookies. But no butter. Quite a horror show! My mom was in Denmark at the time, and bought like 20 packets back to Norway to distribute among friends haha.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis

I dunno how famous this was within Norway, but the Norwegian butter crisis is mainly known within my circle of friends because of a video called "A Butter message to the USA!" by a Norwegian comedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub0GzU56YMA

The different pronunciations of "refridgerator" and the threat to break into your house and eat all your butter in front of you and your family had me in tears the first time I saw it :D

The Danish were all over that, saying Norwegians now spreading the butterless plague to Denmark as well by hoarding all the butter supplies

Just latching on to a top comment for exposure.

About a month ago, Business Insider put out a cool little video on french dijon mustard and why it's so expensive / hard to get. Fun little watch.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nVOhHo0puE

If I may ask, which non-French dijon mustard did you bring them? As a dijon-lover myself, I just wonder what the closest match, or an acceptable substitute, to French dijon would be (I'm in the U.S.).

Grey Poupon (French Dijon) was readily available at our local grocery store in DC. I assume the incentives to divert the supplies from the US to France aren’t quite there yet.

Dijon mustard is an essential sauce ingredient for many dishes

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