GERMAN “OX-BUTTER ”
The Berlin newspaper Vossischc Zeitung recently complained bitterly that any rogue can deceive and rob and swindle Germans il he only puts on a sufficiently bold front. The latest instance is thus described : Ox-butter ? The reader will probably rub bis eyes in wonderment, at such a designation —as we ourselves did. Pardon, gentle reader, oxbutter is to be had. At the weekly market in a suburb of Berlin it was duly painted on the price-board, and at 4s 4d the pound ! The wondrous problem tempted us to probe the affair to the bottom, and, behold ! The “ox-butter” was disclosed as a compound consisting of 95 per cent, of very ordinary tallow, the remainder being every-day margarine. Another surprising feature in this miserable affair is that for the last month a flourishing trade has been done in this “oxbutter !” We are entirely at a loss to explain how so pitiful a joke has been permitted to be made on the poor wretches who stand waiting for hours in bitter weather for a quarter of a pound of butter, and we demand that there be an end'of this jesting.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1553, 20 May 1916, Page 4
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189GERMAN “OX-BUTTER ” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1553, 20 May 1916, Page 4
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