• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

    A stick of butter which was only half-eaten, and so there is half remaining.

    If “stick of butter” is the part which is confusing, it might be helpful to know that calling it a stick suggests this individual may reside in the eastern United States.

    In the Eastern states, butter typically comes in thin stick-shaped bars, in comparison to the fatter bars in the Western states (and most of the rest of the world)

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        11 days ago

        The small child in the story who tried it, discovered that eating pure butter is actually terrible, and abandoned it in her mother’s bedcovers.

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          11 days ago

          that makes perfect sense actually. I think i was confused by the aparent (to me) focus on finding it in the bed, instead of on the “stick of butter” and “half eaten” part. :)

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        11 days ago

        not so mich in in Australia, the stuff in tubs here is synthetic butter aka margarine, or a butter oil frankenstien mix to make it more easiky “spreadable.”

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          10 days ago

          oh uh well then idk

          as a vegan the butter i use is “fake” butter (although i can’t believe that), maybe the “real” animal butter is not in tubs that often