Friday, August 7, 2020

Tumblr Thread: The Cultural Confusion of a Stick of Butter


Here's a good reminder that the way your country does things isn't necessarily the way it's done everywhere. We can see how this person would have a bit of an issue over the use of a stick of butter in a recipe. Tumblr can be home to some culture clashes, or a place for learning, like this Tumblr thread on the USA explained.

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Food - emilianadarling holy fuck you guys after years of being vaguely confused when I came across the measurement "a stick of butter" in recipes, today I learned that in the United States they sell butter in these skinny stick things: SWEET UNSALTED) NET WT. UKDA 4 02 BUTTER (113 g) PACKED DY PLANT 22 DWEET UNSALTED USDA NET WT. 4 0Z (113 g) BUTTER ME PACKED BY PPLANT 27031

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Text - it is literally a stick of butter. A STICK OF BUTTER. i have literally never seen butter sold this way. each stick one only amounts to ½ a cup of butter AMERICANS PLEASE UN- DERSTAND THAT MY WHOLE LIFE WHEN I SAW THE PHRASE “A STICK OF BUTTER" IN RECIPES I WAS IMAGINING THIS:

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camomile - island SALTED FARMS Butter 454 g/1lb.

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Text - THIS IS THE ONLY “STICK" I'D EVER SEEN BUTTER SOLD IN. I THOUGHT Y’ALL WERE THROWING FUCKIN’ POUNDS UPON POUNDS OF BUTTER INTO THINGS HOLY JESUS THE WORLD MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE NOW FUCKIN CHRIST. oddballwaterfall I love little foreign confusion things like this Source: emilianadarling

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