Yoghurt has always been political on the Continent. Just witness the fuss any time a giant French dairy conglomerate threatens to buy out a giant Italian dairy conglomerate, or vice versa.
Only now, however, has the whey-laden goop been weaponised. Rioting Greeks, too impoverished by their nation's financial collapse to make bombs out of milk bottles and petrol like the rest of us, are pelting their politicos in delicious (Greek) yoghurt.
The latest high-profile victim, deputy development minister Socrates Xynides, was this week seen cowering behind a police car drenched in the very same stuff beloved of upwardly mobile mums and part-time bacteria incubators in the UK.
Right now The Grocer's Athens correspondent is calculating whether a period of heavy promotional activity is to blame for this sticky period in the cradle of democracy.
But what of exports? Will stocks of Greek yoghurt at Waitrose dwindle to the point where its own shoppers are rioting in the aisles themselves? A nation needs answers. In the meantime, readers currently booking their holidays to Kefalonia or Corfu are advised to pack some extra wet wipes in case the yoghurt-lobbers target tourists.
Only now, however, has the whey-laden goop been weaponised. Rioting Greeks, too impoverished by their nation's financial collapse to make bombs out of milk bottles and petrol like the rest of us, are pelting their politicos in delicious (Greek) yoghurt.
The latest high-profile victim, deputy development minister Socrates Xynides, was this week seen cowering behind a police car drenched in the very same stuff beloved of upwardly mobile mums and part-time bacteria incubators in the UK.
Right now The Grocer's Athens correspondent is calculating whether a period of heavy promotional activity is to blame for this sticky period in the cradle of democracy.
But what of exports? Will stocks of Greek yoghurt at Waitrose dwindle to the point where its own shoppers are rioting in the aisles themselves? A nation needs answers. In the meantime, readers currently booking their holidays to Kefalonia or Corfu are advised to pack some extra wet wipes in case the yoghurt-lobbers target tourists.
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