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 grew up on the East Coast, and moved to the West as an adult. The first time I pulled butter out of the fridge, over here, I outlout went “this is the wrong shape”.
i went the other way: moved from the west coast to the east and every time i pull out a stick i wonder who stretched my butter
? I have both of those butters in my fridge rn and I'm on the West Coast side... ? The more common size of butter I've ever had in my fridge tho is the long boy too, like???
