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“Although consumers have traded down to less expensive private-label versions of coffee, peanut butter, syrup and chips, butter is a different story. Once people have tasted better butters, they don’t want to go back, said Lydia Clarke, co-owner of two Southern California cheese shops that sell specialty butters from brands including Rodolphe Le Meunier, Maison Bordier and Ploughgate Creamery. ‘You realize, ‘I can cut other things out of my life, but I cannot cut this butter out,’ Clarke said. ‘The world is on fire. We have butter and cheese.'” Bloomberg (Gift Article): The Latest Little Luxury: Fancier, Fattier Butter. (I mean, mediocre butter is pretty good, too.)

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