you wanna know something that fucks me up when i think about it. what really fucks me up. that the west coast of the us has different butter than the east coast. like it’s an entirely different shape. when i learned that my brain metaphorically exploded. something as fundamental and constant as butter is completely different based on whether you grew up in oregon or south carolina. where is the divide. why doesn’t anyone talk about this. oh fuck i’m thinking about the east/west butter divide again i gotta calm down
i’m from massachusetts. when i first learned that not only is the bottom butter common in the western part of the us, but it’s the only butter that some people know, i lost my goddamned mind. i had never even SEEN any butter other than the top butter until i bought some at trader joe’s and was like what the goddamned hell is this. now every time i see tj’s butter in my fridge i have a minor exestential crisis. that first time i googled the history of butter. east coast butter is called elgins and west coast butter is called west coast stubbies. i need to stop talking about this because it makes me fall into a butter-fueled spiral if i think about it for too long
I’m from ny and I’m fucked up that west coast has irish shaped butter as standard but salt potato land doesn’t except this one expensive brand
In Denver we’ve always had the longer, skinnier butter. A few years ago, the local stores started bringing in the shorter, fatter butter. People complained. A lot. We have the skinny butter again.
I have never seen the short butter in my life.
When I moved to the West Coast from the East Coast, I was briefly convinced that I was getting less butter for my money and the stick looked blunt and weird.
Since being forced back East, I now feel like my long butter is weirdly too long, despite growing up with it.
