Lard Crises
According to The Times:
LARD may be unfashionable but there is a national shortage which is threatening supplies of Christmas cakes and mince pies.
Even Yorkshire pudding could be missing from this weekend’s Sunday roast.
Many supermarkets have been out of lard for the past two weeks and traditional pastry cooks have had to scour corner shops for a pack.
There has probably never been such a rush for lard since wartime rationing or the austerity years of the 1950s.
And it is all the fault of those eastern Europeans buying up all our fat pigs - and here is an example from further east of their love it:
BBC NEWS | Europe | Ukraine celebrates 'festival of lard'
Ukrainians celebrated their love of pork fat at the weekend by consuming a giant sandwich filled with 40 kilos of the "delicacy" called salo.