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Food Tag

Wisconsinites who enjoy Kellygold Irish butter have been forced to venture across state lines to buy the gold foil packaged dairy goodness. Butter protectionism in the Dairy State has made this foreign butter illegal. An obscure regulation turns "ungraded butter" into contraband. Since Kerrygold isn't produced in the good ole U.S. of A., it's not graded and hence, illegal. Selling illicit butter bears a fine up to $1,000 and a possible six-month stint in the slammer.

Fast food joint Wendy's has a new social marketing strategy that's both hilarious and effective. I mean, we're blogging about it, right? The strategy is simple -- roast the dissent. During my daily internetting yesterday, I saw this, which is seems to be tweet zero:

If you haven't hoarded enough Reddi-wip to get you through Christmas, you might be out of luck. America is in the midst of a nationwide whipped cream shortage. The culprit isn't the cream or anything dairy related, but a shortage of nitrous oxide.