@gemlog
In Russia they've been doing it since 2014 when importing quality food from EU became problematic or too expensive for the less wealthy to afford. Volume of course also got reduced up to %25-40%! 😱
The most funny thing was with cheese — quality cheeses are relatively expensive to make so local producers attempted to do something to reduce the price, most often by replacing animals fats with vegetable ones.
@gemlog
Of course they couldn't call it cheese anymore, but they still have to label it somehow and they came up with "cheese-like product". It became a running joke in Russian political Twitter, how cheese-like product gets sold to human-like creatures 🤣
@fsan
I've always thought you have quality dairy in Argentina so maybe they do it for different reasons, in Russia they do it solely to reduce the costs. Rumours have it, they have started importing copious amounts of palm oil, and it's not even food grade — the one usually used to make paints and stuff like that.
I'm not sure all of it is entirely true, but it's always a wise idea to stay away from the cheapest of food products in Russia 😱
@gemlog
@m0xee @gemlog it's not a matter of having diary but rather the cost of diary.
The average wage has collapsed.