{"id":39161,"date":"2021-11-23T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/new-zealand-cheese-lovers-forced-to-eke-out-supplies-as-prices-jump"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T02:51:09","slug":"whey-too-expensive-new-zealand-cheese-lovers-forced-to-eke-out-supplies-as-prices-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39161","title":{"rendered":"Whey too expensive: New Zealand cheese lovers forced to eke out supplies as prices jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Range of issues blamed for spike in cost to $20 a block, including inflation, Covid-related supply issues and high milk prices<\/p>\n<p>Facing decades-high cheese prices, cheddar-loving New Zealanders are being forced to chase specials, downgrade their flavour expectations, or abandon the blocks entirely in favour of grated substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of inflation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/03\/yuletide-logjam-how-supply-chain-woes-could-ruin-christmas-for-australian-shoppers\">Covid-19 supply pressures<\/a> and high milk prices was sending prices for hunks of cheddar through the roof, with blocks ranging from $11 to over $20 a block.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/new-zealand-cheese-lovers-forced-to-eke-out-supplies-as-prices-jump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Range of issues blamed for spike in cost to $20 a block, including inflation, Covid-related supply issues and high milk pricesFacing decades-high cheese prices, cheddar-loving New Zealanders are being forced to chase specials, downgrade their flavour e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,383,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food-drink-industry","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39182,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions\/39182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}