every fourth package of butter was proven to be fake in Russia
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instead of butter its soap that has the color of butter or sometimes plant fats which have been hardened and are cheaper to source than actual butter (which is the prerequisite for it being sold at all, wouldnt make sense to sell something that is more expensive than butter)
also smetana has been counterfeited
Russia has extreme prices on basic food products and this lures in people who fake it
sometimes a package of bread has been a sea sponge used for washing yourself but it had been painted and shaped as a piece of bread