American butter is shit tbf
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That French guy was just trying to butter them up.
Butter from tropical South Pacific countries is high in salt. It help with replenishing minerals your body loses due to sweating.
So is butter from Brittany.
It would keep better with the heat too
Too long didn’t read
you didn’t miss anything, just someone sharing their made up story
Are people possibly confusing what people call butter here - margarine - and butter? Store bought butter tastes the same as fresh churned farm butter…
…no, it doesn’t.
The secret is the west coasts.
The french guy was talking about butter from Bretagne. West coast Irish butter is amazing. West coast Scottish butter is amazing.
Know why? Because it absolutely pisses down with rain almost every fucking day in west coast Atlantic areas, the grass grows like triffids and the cows eat themselves silly
Quite simple
I choose to believe it’s their mutual hatred of England that makes their butter taste good.
I shall be adopting “like triffids” into my everyday vernacular from now on.
what on earth is a triffid?!
Day of the Triffids a well known book.
(Heavy influence on 28 days later)
It’s a fictional plant that grows fast
Why are Americans so into Irish butter? It’s ok, but just about the same as British butter. French and danish butter though are completely different. It’s fermented.
I see Irish butter in nearly every US grocery store; I’ve never seen French or Danish butter but I’ll keep an eye out for it, sounds interesting.
Président is in Walmart near me, beats that green and silver Irish butter imho
Président for french. Lurpak for danish. At least those are the brands that we get in the UK.
President is from the atrocious Lactalis megacorp (it might be the world’s largest milk corporation). You generally want to avoid their products.
Na, it’s too good to avoid.
It certainly isn’t. I have no idea what gave you that idea.
Butter from Normandy in particular.
With salt! The “demi-sel” makes any toast even better.
I was just about to say, IMHO of course, that French butter, in general, is not as good as Irish. However regional productions, like the highest quality creameries from Normandy are ever bit as good as the best Irish butter.
There is excellent butter in the United States. Even some of the most sought after butter in the world by top chefs. Animal Farm Creamery butter to name only one.
If you’re buying crap butter from the grocery store, you’re going to get what you pay for. That is true almost everywhere.
Animal Farm Creamery butter
Equal to French butter. Maybe even more equal.
Swiss butter FTW!
A good example why nationalism and pride about it makes no sense. Most people had no choice in where they are from, and had no influence on something like this. Having pride in something you did not influence and had no choice in is really weird and kind of narcissistic.
This is why it gets toxic and dangerous easily. We see similar issues with fans of sports teams, even though the fan has literally nothing to do with the team.
reminds me of JP Sartre: by disparaging the jews, the anti-semite instantly puts himself into a superior group without having to actually do anything.
Nationalism works the same way. “I belong to THIS socially constructed group! We do such great things!” as if they built the community from the ground up and weren’t just thrown into a world with systems already in place independent of them that helped produce the things they’re proud of…
Like sure community is a thing but at a certain point doesn’t it get quite arbitrary what you take credit for? and doesn’t that also mean we have to take credit for all the bad things too? every Palestinian would become Hamas and every American a drone pilot. those are precisely the reasons I am not patriotic and i dont find “shut up, frog” jokes funny. “just” tribalism? “just” a wee cheeky bit o fash in the mornin?
This is about butter, not nations. The nations are merely places in which the butter resides.
Literally about a nation. Literally says national pride.
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The Irishman misunderstands
Having pride in something you did not influence and had no choice in is really weird and kind of narcissistic.
what
When someone says “I’ve been sober for a year” and a commenter says “I’m proud of you, OP”, is that narcissistic?
No, it’s an instance where what people say is not what they feel: The second doesn’t comment on their own pride, but is expressing something like admiration. At the most, pride in being friends with such a fine chap who would manage to be sober for a year.
Mostly, though, it’s just a fixed phrase of encouragement and praise, unrelated to the actual words used. The fixed phrase could be “cowabunga!” and it’d mean the same.
Not the same. A more apt version using your comparison would be someone saying ‘I’ve been sober for a year!’ and the other person (who still drinks, but perhaps cheered them on now and again from the sidelines) says either ‘You mean we’ve been sober for a year!’ or ‘Yes, and it’s all thanks to me!’ - never mind they didn’t actively step in to help, or try to go dry themselves.
What the complaint you quoted was objecting to are people claiming full part of something they had no control over and no (or not much) involvement in, just to make themselves feel more important.
Yes we as a social species like to share in accomplishments, and that’s fine! But there is a line, that unfortunately gets crossed quite a lot, where people start to feel that they themselves were involved in the accomplishments of others, and that’s not so good. To paraphrase an above poster, we didn’t win the Super Bowl.
And also, some things people take ‘group pride’ in aren’t accomplishments at all. Being born in a specific place, for instance, or having a specific skin color. Or even just trying to share credit with every inventor/creator/whatever of the same gender. It does all tie back to our instinctive tribalism, but that doesn’t make it a good thing.
Not the same. A more apt version using your comparison would be someone saying ‘I’ve been sober for a year!’ and the other person (who still drinks, but perhaps cheered them on now and again from the sidelines) says either ‘You mean we’ve been sober for a year!’ or ‘Yes, and it’s all thanks to me!’ - never mind they didn’t actively step in to help, or try to go dry themselves.
That’s literally not the claim being made by these people in the OP taking pride in their community’s accomplishments though.
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its just an ancient tribal instinct. oh, you’re from the squirrel bones tribe? pssh, your berry bushes are shit. rat skull tribe have best berry bushes, and we have stream. squirrel bones tribe have no stream and bad berry bushes
Your sportsball team is shit. WE smashed you!
We!?! Really bob? Pretty sure you passed out and pissed yourself that night…
speciesism >> nationalism
Also in this case it’s kind of a great example of how positive nationalism and pride quickly turns negative. The US has more dairy farmland than any other country, im sure there is plenty of fancy boutique butter. It’s a pretty weak premise, almost certainly drawn completely from negative stereotypes.
If the guide who was saying that about butter was not wearing a scarf around his neck and smoking a Gauloises, he needs to lose his French license.
Dude, it’s just butter, wtf.
TIL the french make butter.
? Every country makes butter?
Of course they do but I’ve never thought about french butter but I’m sure they think its the best there is just like everything else french.
Wat doo yoo sink we put on ze baguette?
Ham and a nice triple crème.
Sure it’s fair to have differing opinions of where the best butter comes from but Ireland likely has the oldest.
Kerrygold 🥰
I definitely recommend going to the Butter Museum in Cork which is essentially a Kerrygold museum.
Yep. If you know, you know.
You don’t think it’s gonna make a difference, but once you eat a stick of it, you’ll know.
I recommend making Hollandaise sauce to really emphasize the butter!
Trying to figure out if this is a bit or truly worth the hype. I was about to go shopping tomorrow. Gonna make scones, so I need butter.
It’s worth it. Make sure you have everything you need, including tools, utensils, and dishes, before you start though. It comes together very fast and you will not have a spare second to go grab something.
Add a dash of cayenne if the recipe doesn’t include it, otherwise I find the creaminess coats the palate too much and makes it taste too samey.
they’re making scones, not hollandaise sauce
Correct. Lol
Others already replied - but it’s not a bit. Kerrygold butter is of a noticeably higher quality. I can’t go back.
(I’m not sure I would put Hollandaise on (sweet) scones, so I’m hoping I didn’t misread and you were just asking whether Kerrygold was worth it haha)
It’s truth. Expensive truth, but worth it when you have the money
You eat it by the stick?
My aunt in Yorkshire always used to say “butter makes everything better, including margarine”
I mean, butter is nice, but eating it by the stick? I scrape some onto bread, or cut off a small slice to fry something in, or maybe mix it into a cake.
But eating a stick of butter?
Well you have to deep fry it first.
This guy acting like he doesn’t butter snack
Please stop. Us Americans are fat enough…
If you want to make Homer’s patented out of this world moon waffles you do.
How the fuck do you spread it?
Slice off a pad and pop it on a plate, then microwave it a little.
I don’t know if that’s how you’re supposed to do it, but it sure as hell works.
What kind of high class bs … lol
Contrary to popular belief in the US, butter does not require refrigeration. Just needs a covered dish.
Only salted butter, as far as I know. The salt keeps it preserved. Unsalted needs to be either used promptly or refrigerated I’m pretty sure?
Huh … til
What’s the hottest it gets where you live in the summer?
'Murica, land of air conditioning (regular 90f+ weather).
I don’t personally keep butter out like that as I do not own a toaster. Or a dining table. Or air conditioning to adequately handle hotter than 90f (cheap landlord at apartment complex plus upper floor apartment).
I recommend a butter keeper / butter pot to on the counter. They’re designed to use water to seal the air out. Butter will keep for a week or two without any quality issues if you exchange the water in the butter pot daily.
Though these are an inverted system, so if your living space is consistently warm enough to melt the butter, it may not be a great solution.
