In France they're asking -- where's the butter?

At the weekend, French daily newspaper Le Figaro published a long how-to piece on baking and cooking without butter. The article was emblematic of France’s current butter crisis, where demand has overtaken supply, resulting in the price of the dairy product skyrocketing by 60 percent in one year and dairy sections of some supermarkets screaming empty.

From France 24.

Marseilles is in a quandary, and Bordeaux is up in arms;

Butter is not reaching them from Gallic dairy farms.

Ministers are worried that their own portfolio

Will be taken from them for a lack of oleo.

“Bon Dieu!” The bakers cry out, cuz their pastries all are dry --

Parisiens spurn the croissant and instead eat ‘la french fry!’

Avignon’s deserted, and Grenoble is aflutter,

As the desperate citoyens go searching for some butter.

Macron’s going crazy, asking Merkel for a hand

In bringing barges full of ghee into his restless land.

It won’t be long before they once again storm the Bastille --

Chanting “Down with margarine -- we want the stuff that’s real!”