I usually buy the Woolies home brand butter to use in cooking and was surprised the other day to find none available on the shelves.

They had replaced it with a brand called Hillview.  Same price as the home brand.

Was surprised when I opened it to find the butter was white and not the usual yellow colour of butter.

Looked at the label and was surprised to see it is from the USA.  Ingredients are just cream and salt but wonder why a different colour.

I am not complaining as it seems a good product and the taste is . . . . . . well, just butter.

It always stuns me how the world changes. As a kid part of my growing up was on a dairy farm where we sent cream in to get made into butter.  I did a school excursion once to the Gympie Butter Factory and still remember the big wooden 56 lb butter boxes that were sent all over the world.

I vaguely recall that it is because the dairy cattle are all feedlot raised so are grain fed.  They do not graze on grass or other natural vegetation.

I didn’t even know the Woolies butter was from NZ.  Been buying it forever.