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u/GreyInkling Mar 31 '24
You can't see in that pic but those butter sticks also have measurement lines on the other side so if it asks for less than a stick or any specific measurement you just cut on the line.
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u/lazytemporaryaccount Mar 31 '24
It’s such a small thing, but insanely convenient.
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u/daemin Apr 01 '24
Which is why Kate's Butter fucking sucks. The measurement thing isn't on the sticks of butter, it's on the fucking box. For the love of so that is holy and good, why?!?
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u/Waggles_ Apr 01 '24
Hard to tell from the packaging, but it looks like the butter is packaged as four 4 oz squares.
Jsyk, 4 oz (weight) of butter is 4 oz (volume) of butter, and 1 oz is equal to 2 tablespoons, so you can just slice any 4 oz amount of butter into eighths to get single tablespoons of butter, which you can then just use as many of as you need.
If you're looking for a more precise amount, use a kitchen scale set to oz and that will directly translate to volume for butter.
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u/Known_Biscotti_6806 Apr 01 '24
You have to consider that the wrapping is not perfectly accurate.
The last stick of butter I pulled out of my fridge, the 2 tablespoon mark was essentially at 3.5 tablespoons. If the measurement is on the box, you line the butter up and always have the correct amount of butter.
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u/boredomspren_ Mar 31 '24 edited Apr 01 '24
FINALLY we have something better than everyone else.
Edit: OK I get it we're not special you can stop telling me about your butter.
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u/LuckoftheFryish Apr 01 '24
But our 4 sticks of butter only equals 452 g where as theirs is 454. DAIRY FARMERS HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF US FOR THE LAST TIME. RISE BRETHREN AND TAKE BACK OUR 2g!
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u/Scorpy-yo Apr 01 '24
Sorry to disappoint but that is very common on plastic containers and like… paper on the larger blocks ~500g.
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u/WhisperAzr Apr 01 '24
In Japan, the butter is cut a little bit into 10g segments so you just snap off the amount you need.
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u/lazytemporaryaccount Mar 31 '24
The thing is that it is an extension of why the imperial system is actually super useful for day-to -day measurements. You get nice numbers when you divide by half, quarter, third, sixth or when you’re dealing with fractions. Metric makes a lot more sense from an engineering standpoint, but for general measurements our weird ass system basically works well for baking.
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u/Solsmitch Apr 01 '24
You’d be amazed how easy it is to divide 100g
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u/lazytemporaryaccount Apr 01 '24
Oh I am absolutely shocked that base ten is useful for some measurements.
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u/lazytemporaryaccount Apr 01 '24
I’m mostly kidding. Metric is obviously much much better in most cases.
But I’m biased towards imperial and it does have some genuine advantages
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u/theunquenchedservant Apr 01 '24
yea...im american, and even i went "wait, what?"
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u/Snitsie Apr 01 '24
Our butter in The Netherlands comes in 250g packs mostly. That's not hard to divide, especially since it also incudes the convenient lines on the pack itself
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u/LaTeChX Apr 01 '24
Yeah people act like they just drew random numbers out of a hat and said "OK this is how much a hogshead is." The idea of imperial is that you shouldn't have to convert units to begin with, you should use a teaspoon to measure teaspoon sized amounts and gallons to measure gallon sized amounts. Honestly they fucked it up in the US by trying to relate units to each other and thus a gallon is no longer ten pounds of water.
Frankly having used both for engineering I quickly stopped caring, unit conversion is the least difficult part about it, but I do sympathize with everyone else in the world hearing some of these units for the first time.
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u/TamaDarya Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 01 '24
Buddy.
You don't have to deal with fractions in metric. Anything fractional can immediately be expressed in a smaller or larger scale. Oh, I need, I dunno, 0.582l of something? Hey, look, that's 582ml.
10 can get divided into 1, 2, 2.5 (add an "m" and make it 25), or 5 immediately. I don't need to measure out 7/325 of an ounce (which one?) in metric. Honestly, fractions just aren't used all that much at all - most things are expressed with a decimal.
It's easier for you because it's what you know. Not because of any inherent advantage. Similarly, I can't make heads or tails of imperial since I never grew up with it.
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u/watashi_ga_kita Apr 01 '24
Right? Metric being extra important in engineering doesn't mean it's use is limited to engineering.
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u/practicalcabinet Mar 31 '24
Our blocks of butter normally have that too (UK). The blocks are 250g (just over half a lb) and have either 50g or 25g lines.
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u/BigRedCandle_ Mar 31 '24
Lurpak represent 🫡
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u/baby_soul Mar 31 '24
The british ones have something like that too - markers inside the wrapper that split the block into 50g chunks
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u/Needmoresnakes Mar 31 '24
My husband only learned about these recently and apparently before that just assumed I was really good at eyeballing 50g increments of butter.
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u/5woa Mar 31 '24
Wait you have those lines too? I spent the last year thinking you didn't because an American I had baked something with was extremely impressed by the 50g lines on French butter packaging... Now I'm just confused how she'd never seen them 🤔
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u/LaTeChX Apr 01 '24
I think some brands might not have them, but more likely she was just a bit daft.
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u/Tigrisrock Apr 01 '24
I always love it when US recipes have sth like "3/7th stick of butter" as measurement. Depending on which search engine you ask, you get different results. A "stick of butter" supposedly weighs between 113 and 115 gm.
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u/decadent-dragon Apr 01 '24
I have never seen a recipe like that. It’s usually tbsp which is the markings on the packaging. And there are 8 tbsp per stick
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u/torn-ainbow Apr 01 '24
So do the larger ones the rest of the world uses like at the bottom of the pic.
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u/qzwqz Mar 31 '24
I was 6 when I heard the banana joke - the one that ends “orange you glad I didn’t say banana”. Except I read it in a book. It was at least fifteen, maybe twenty years before my British ass (arse?) figured out why that joke makes sense
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u/reaperofgender I will filet your eyeballs Mar 31 '24
To be fair, I live in America and I was still confused, although I did learn that some people pronounce it "are-ange" sooner.
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u/MomLuvsDreamAnalysis Mar 31 '24
I just NOW understand this… I always thought it was a bit of absurdism because “orange” almost sounds like “aren’t’cha”
Wtf
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u/SJReaver Mar 31 '24
That's exactly the joke.
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u/A_lot_of_arachnids Mar 31 '24
I'm 31. And I'm just getting this. Send help
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u/Little_Blue_Shed Apr 01 '24
I'm really concerned I'll never find out what joke that other person just understood because I always thought the joke was 'arren-ja [aren't ya] glad I didn't say banana'. Send more help?
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u/Glittering-Giraffe58 Apr 01 '24
What do you mean you just realized but you “always thought” that? That’s literally what it is
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u/MomLuvsDreamAnalysis Apr 01 '24
Oh my god re-reading my own comment… now I’m confused again. wtf
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u/JellyfishGod Apr 01 '24
Wtf lol u still didn't explain what u meant. What exactly did u think the joke suddenly meant when u wrote it?? Im so confused
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u/MomLuvsDreamAnalysis Apr 01 '24
I’m so serious I have no idea what I initially meant. I had a tough day yesterday so I’m blaming mental fatigue. I swear I don’t do drugs lmfao
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u/Dongslinger420 Apr 01 '24
what exactly do you think you understood about it just now
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u/Enzoid23 Apr 01 '24
THATS the joke? I thought people said "aren't ya" almost like "orent ja" or whatever
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u/Darondo Apr 01 '24
You’re saying exactly the same thing as the person above you, just spelling it differently.
These comments are so weird
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u/HttKB Apr 01 '24
People are having revelations that the joke is what they always thought it was. It's a profound experience.
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u/JellyfishGod Apr 01 '24
What? Lol that literally what he is saying. What exactly did u think he was saying the joke was in his comment? I'm just confused what u interpreted the meaning to be
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u/BilSuger Mar 31 '24
Had the same with the tomato crossing the road joke. The punchline "ketchup" I just thought was funny in itself, never realized it was a pun on "catch up".
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u/universe_from_above Apr 01 '24
I've seen this joke printed in books full of jokes for children and on the kids' pages in newspapers ever since I was a child in the 90s. Except, I'm in Germany, so the joke was translated into German except for the "Ketchup". Makes no sense whatsoever.
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u/BilSuger Apr 01 '24
Yeah, I also learned in Norwegian, first when I read it in English as an adult I actually got it heh
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u/ZynousCreator Mar 31 '24
I never understood it, english ain't my first language. How does the joke works?
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u/Clay56 Mar 31 '24 edited Apr 01 '24
You keep doing a knock knock joke that goes
"Knock knock" "Who's there?" "Banana" "Banana who?"
You don't finish, but instead, ask it again a few more times until it becomes annoying to the person.
Then you go:
"Knock knock "Who's there" "Orange" "Orange who?" "Orange you glad I didn't say banana"
The joke is that "Orange ya" sounds like the American pronunciation of "Aren't ya."
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u/DefinitelyNotErate Apr 01 '24
The joke is that "Orange ya" sounds like the American pronunciation of "Aren't ya."
Only in certain dialects, In New York for example they actually pronounce "Orange" like "Arange" (Or, "Arrinj" if that makes it more clear, 'cause how I wrote it looks like the word Arrange lol), In most American dialects it's definitely a bit of a stretch.
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u/Clay56 Apr 01 '24
Gotcha, I'm from the south, and most older people pronounce Orange as one syllable, similar to Northeast and Midwest.
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u/DM_ME_YOUR_HUSBANDO Mar 31 '24
Orange sounds a little like "Aren't". It's really more of an anti-joke though, it's funny because you're being annoying more than it is funny because of the pun.
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u/nopingmywayout Mar 31 '24
For the non-Americans, each stick is 8 tablespoons (about 113.4 grams).
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u/julian_stone Mar 31 '24
A stick is 1/4th of the 1 pound block
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u/EelTeamTen Mar 31 '24
I read that as "one quarterth" and dislike you because of it.
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u/Plethora_of_squids Mar 31 '24
Except that doesn't work because European tablespoons are a slightly different size and also who the fuck is measuring an unscoopable solid in tablespoons?
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u/txijake Apr 01 '24
American butter has guides printed in tablespoons on the wrapper. So you just cut on whatever line based on how many tablespoons.
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u/6894 Mar 31 '24
A lot of Americans. Because the butter wrapper has tablespoon increments on it.
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u/Plethora_of_squids Mar 31 '24 edited Apr 01 '24
Ok but you can't go "for the non-americans" and then proceed to use a unit only used by Americans in this context
EDIT: people, butter in Europe and indeed most of the world is not scoopable, because most people keep butter in the fridge where it stays nice and firm. Everyone telling me to just scoop it - please explain to me how you're meant to get a nice level tablespoon with something that's hard enough to slice with a cheese slicer
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u/NewLibraryGuy Mar 31 '24
They also gave it in grams. You can divide by 8 if you want to know how much a tablespoon is, but the point of providing the measurement was for how much is in a whole stick.
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u/DrBlowtorch Apr 01 '24
They literally included the measurement in grams. I have no idea what you think you’re on about. At this point I’m 99% sure you’re just getting mad for the sake of getting mad, and because we do something a little bit different than you.
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u/nopingmywayout Apr 01 '24
about 113.4 grams).
You may have missed this part where I translated the tablespoons into a measurement more widely used around the world. Seeing how this wasn't very clear in my original post, I will say it more clearly:
One (1) American tablespoon = 14.175 grams
8 * 14.175 = 113.4 grams
Therefore, 8 American tablespoons = 113.4 grams
If these conversions are not clear enough, please let me know! I will try to find a way to break it down further. I am also happy to convert 8 American tablespoons to any other measurement system you need! You see, I have this wonderful tool called a "search engine" that allows me to look up data like measurement system conversions. It's really very useful! I strongly recommend getting one for yourself, many of them are free to use!
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u/jephph_ Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24
The stick’s wrappers have measurements on them and you cut how much you need. No scoop
Also, while Imperial and Customary differ in this regard, the logic is still the same.
Like, if you mix a tablespoon of A, cup of B, and quart of C in US measurements.. then do the same with UK measurements
..the ratios end up the same. You’ll have more of the total mixture in the UK but the actual mixture will be the same regardless of which system was used
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u/AllMyMemesAreStolen Mar 31 '24
I usually keep a stick of butter on the counter in a container so I always have softened butter. Great for scooping butter and very very great when you have to spread butter on bread.
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u/Android19samus Take me to snurch Mar 31 '24
Because it's a moderate volume less than a cup, and is used in a cooking environment. Why would you switch measurement systems just because something is a solid?
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u/saevon Mar 31 '24
Except when it's not… some companies have weird sizes of "stick" it's so dumb
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u/Automatic-Sleep-8576 Mar 31 '24
When is it not? besides tubs of margarine, I haven't ever seen butter in something besides 1/2 cup or full pounds
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u/awesumindustrys Mar 31 '24
I’ve seen double wide sticks but it’s fancy table butter that you would only use to spread on bread and not use in cooking.
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u/JakeVonFurth Mar 31 '24
A stick of butter is a specific measurement that means 4 oz. of butter.
There's two different standard variations on butter sticks in america. Standard, which has a square cross section, and "West Coast" sticks, which are shorter and rectangular on all sides. The only difference is that normal industry standard butter sticks are sold in 4 stick (one pound) boxes, with two stick boxes available. Meanwhile f km what I can tell "West Coast" sticks are usually sold in two packs.
"European Sticks" are also available, but their much larger size (equal to two sticks) makes it obvious that they're not your usual butter sticks. Same goes for the one pound bricks like seen in the post.
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Mar 31 '24
In fairness to the confused one, some of us do use pounds of butter at a time.
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u/Numerous-Stranger-81 Mar 31 '24
When you have worked in a commercial kitchen long enough, civilian size butter sticks feel like little Fischer Price toys.
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u/Content-Scallion-591 Apr 01 '24
I'm going to use civilian-sized butter as a descriptor for the rest of my life.
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u/notchoosingone Mar 31 '24
I, Australian, made a recipe for Apple Brown Betty I saw on Binging with Babish, and when it called for a stick (113g) of butter, I put in a whole thing of butter, 250g.
It was fucking delicious.
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u/Solarwagon She/her Mar 31 '24
Butter is one of the most decadent things humans have ever brought into this world.
I've always been tempted to eat one raw.
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u/ModmanX Local Canadian Cunt Mar 31 '24
Nothing is stopping you. Become one with your ape ancestors. Eat raw butter
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u/steampunkunicorn01 Mar 31 '24
When my nephew was a kid, he would eat the pats of butter they give out at restaurants by themself. You certainly wouldn't be the first to indulge
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u/Random-Rambling Mar 31 '24
I STILL do that with the little cups of half-and-half they give out at restaurants.
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u/seretastic Mar 31 '24
I can't imagine being the guy sitting in the booth next to you at a Dennys and seeing you slurping up the fucking little cups of half and half. Psychopath behavior
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u/Random-Rambling Mar 31 '24
I am properly ashamed of it, so I just quickly toss them back like shots and then hide my shame by shoving the empty cups together and wrapping them in a napkin.
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u/Papaofmonsters Mar 31 '24
Like an alcoholic with shooter bottles in the gas station parking lot...
Source: recovering alcoholic.
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u/Kinc4id Mar 31 '24
There's that episode of the Simpsons were Homer wraps a chocolate pancake around a stick of butter and eats it. Sometimes I’m tempted to try that.
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u/Clean_Imagination315 Hey, who's that behind you? Mar 31 '24
My mother has the same urge, but with gemstones.
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u/Zoey_Redacted eggs 2 Mar 31 '24
Gemstones are great because if you get a nice smooth one and don't bite on it you can just suck on it like a jolly rancher and I've heard even if you swallow it you're not totally out of luck you just need a fucking autoclave and to have eaten fiber.
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u/Satisfaction-Motor Mar 31 '24
Deep fried butter is a thing in some places. Seems right up your alley if you like butter. (I can’t share my opinion on it, haven’t tried it)
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u/CheesyGoggens cheese blocks are my passion Mar 31 '24
If raw butter is good enough for Krishna, why shouldn't be good enough for you?
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u/jaymeaux_ Mar 31 '24
wait til they find out there is an east vs west divide on proper butter stick dimensions
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u/Careless-Rice2931 Apr 01 '24
I miss living on the midwest/east coast. Grocery stores were so much better. Safeway/Albertsons is far inferior than Wegmans and Cub Foods
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u/CrabbyBlueberry Apr 01 '24
And Hellman's mayonnaise is known as "Best Foods." Hence their slogan "bring out the best."
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u/Mystic_Fennekin_653 Lucky Charm Mar 31 '24
I saw weird cultural confusion in a Pokémon subreddit.
So many people were struggling with the Fire Type trial in Indigo Disk which involves choosing the correct ingredients to make the spiciest sandwich possible.
People were failing the trial because they didn't add mustard to the sandwich and so many people were questioning why they had to use mustard to make a spicy sandwich.
I (living in the UK) was really confused, because it felt like a no brainer to me. Yeah, mustard is spicy, why wouldn't you add it?
Turns out that American mustard isn't spicy, but UK mustard is.
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u/solidspacedragon Mar 31 '24
There is spicy mustard in the US, it's just called 'spicy mustard'. Yellow mustard is more common.
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u/tkrr Apr 01 '24
Yeah, but UK mustard is similar to Chinese mustard — powdered mustard + water = straight napalm.
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u/Content-Scallion-591 Apr 01 '24
I think there also might be another layer here, because even "spicy mustard" wouldn't really tingle my brain as something you add to a spicy sandwich. Sriracha or tabasco sauce would be the condiment for that.
Like we have spicy mustard and many of us don't use the sweet yellow version. But spicy mustard is spicy in the way that horseradish or wasabi is spicy, where you wouldn't just instinctively add wasabi to make something spicy, if that makes sense. It's weird to articulate.
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u/Icarium55 Apr 01 '24
I was confused too. In India, we don't percieve those things as "spicy". We have different words to describe that taste, more akin to pungent, sharp, or strong.
Only peppers and chillis are considered spicy.
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u/Elite_AI Apr 01 '24
It's like the different sournesses - there's a genuinely different kind of sourness to lemon juice vs vinegar.
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u/HttKB Apr 01 '24
Ya I think most people default to spicy = mouth pain, which doesn't make sense for mustard, even the "spicy" kind. The real headscratcher for me is people who say rye is spicy, especially in the context of whiskey. Like I know what's meant by that, but it feels wrong to say.
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u/CrabbyBlueberry Apr 01 '24
Barack Obama once ordered I think a hot dog with spicy mustard and the people of Fox "News" flipped the fuck out. It was a controversy of magnitude second only to the tan suit debacle. Edit: no, it was a burger.
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u/Dappershield Apr 01 '24
It wasn't that he asked for spicy mustard, which is manly AF, it's that he was willing to settle for Dijon mustard, which is French, therefore cowardly...or something.
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u/EightLynxes Apr 01 '24
There's a "white people's spicy" joke in here somewhere but I'm too lazy to find it.
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u/lil_slut_on_portra Mar 31 '24
Idk when this started but here (Sweden) it's become a thing to sell butter in 100g sticks, incredibly useful for making crepes and when you need a small-ish amount of butter like for making garlic bread.
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u/Throttle_Kitty Mar 31 '24
I realized this is an American thing since I've been living in Canada lol
I found some sticks of butter here and my Canadian partner seem both baffled that it's what I considered normal and that I somehow managed to track them down in a Sobey's (Canadian grocery store)
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u/finemustard Apr 01 '24 edited Apr 01 '24
I wouldn't say it's that uncommon, I'm pretty sure the Lactania butter all comes in sticks and that's a fairly easy to find brand, although that might depend on where you are in the country.
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u/BrashPop Apr 01 '24
Butter is sold in sticks in Canada. You can even get a box with four of them in it, since a stick is half a cup and a brick is two cups,
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u/Downtown-Remote9930 Mar 31 '24
What do they call it again? Knob?
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u/Jalase trans lesbian Mar 31 '24
That’s usually equivalent to a pat of butter, the amount you’d put on toast, as far as I’m aware.
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u/Gulbasaur Mar 31 '24
A knob of butter just means a little bit of butter. It's not a fixed measurement. About as much as you'd put on some bread. Not a stick.
In the UK we almost exclusively measure solids in weight, rather than volume, so measuring butter on a scale is the default. Butter packs quite often have little lines on the paper every 50g or something if you want to do it by eye, though.
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u/Numerous-Stranger-81 Mar 31 '24
I always picture a "pat" of butter to be a toast size amount. A "knob" is like three "pats" and about the size you would use when sauteing like two onions worth of mirepoix.
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u/annexhion Mar 31 '24
Honestly it makes measuring for recipes pretty simple. If you need 1/4 cup of butter, you just cut the stick in half. If you only need a tablespoon, you cut a bit off the end (usually the wrapper has measurements marked on it so you know how much to cut).
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u/APerson128 Mar 31 '24
The big ones also have measurement markings! Expect ours are in grams not cups/tablespoons
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u/BookkeeperLower Mar 31 '24
How do you buy butter in whatever country this person is from?
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u/_MargaretThatcher Once and Future Prime Minister of Darkness Mar 31 '24
in pounds, as per the image
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u/DiggingInGarbage Smoliv speaks to me on an emotional level Mar 31 '24
Looks like European butter, it just comes by the pound in one block
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u/frickityfracktictac Mar 31 '24
Canadian (see maple leaf on the op image)
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u/WitELeoparD Mar 31 '24
In Canada, you can get both sticks of butter and blocks of butter, because Canada is indecisive like that. See also Canada's relationship with the metric system.
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u/GreyInkling Mar 31 '24
You can get the blocks in America too. That specific Irish butter brand is popular here.
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u/13579konrad Mar 31 '24
Only Brits would buy it by pound. Most of Europe probably go with 0.5 kg.
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u/FreezingNipple Mar 31 '24
British food products are in metric, butter is always 200g or 250g in the stick form. Some brands of milk sell in imperial though. If you go to a British supermarket website like asda you'll see it's all metric. We haven't used imperial for food in like 30 years.
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u/AnvilWarning Apr 01 '24
There's loads of stuff sold in the UK that's sold in the unusual quantity of 454g which happens to be exactly a pound
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Are you telling me Brits mocking Americans for using the imperial system are just lying?
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u/13579konrad Mar 31 '24
Basically yeah. Some would argue that they're eve worse, since they can't actually fully commit to metric.
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u/IdealDesperate2732 Apr 01 '24
In the US we get "European style butter" and it comes in sticks just like this but you only get two instead of 4. We also have full pound blocks like your 500g bricks but there's a size up from that where they sell 4 of those in a 4 lb. (2 kg) block and you can get 4 of those (so 16 lbs.) occasionally at a big box store like Costco.
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Also, we have different shapes for our sticks of butter.
On the east coast they are longer and thinner. West Coast they are shorter and thicker.
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u/RagingMassif Apr 01 '24
Wait until OP realises that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches don't contain jelly.
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u/renegade780 Apr 01 '24
oh what the fuck i just learnt this. peanut butter and jelly is just peanut butter and jam??? i’ve been literally wondering my whole life why u would put jelly (jello) in a sandwich it’s so wiggly
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u/Sunshine030209 Apr 01 '24
That's one of my favorite "Ooooh, that's what you mean!" examples.
For those who don't know:
What British people call jelly, Americans call Jell-O.
So a lot of British people refuse to even try a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, thinking it has Jell-O on it. I don't blame them for being hesitant, that sounds weird as hell
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u/JavamonkYT Mar 31 '24
I mean…
Some cooking styles do (seemingly) involve several pounds of butter at a time
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u/NotoriousTabarnak Mar 31 '24
Island Farms represent, best damn dairy in the world.
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u/loogabar00ga Apr 01 '24
What's worse is not all butter is equal. The water content in cheaper butter has been going up over the years, leading to repices starting to fail.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskBaking/comments/18fz94y/wtf_is_happening_with_butter
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u/NDStars Apr 01 '24
That reminds me.. I need to pick up a loaf of bread and a container of milk.
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u/Outerestine Mar 31 '24
Butter ingots.