National Butter Day - November 17th

National Butter Day brought to my mind this tongue twister from 1899. Has anyone else encountered it? There are a number of variations.

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter;
“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o’ better butter
Will make my batter better.”

Then she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit o’ better butter.
 

Land O'Lakes butter $6.49 lb at Kroger or $4.79 for the Kroger brand. Wow. I bought 4 lbs (holiday baking, donchano) at Aldi a few weeks ago for $2.85 lb. Don't know how much it is now.
 
Was a time when I was eating a pound a week on my own if not more. “Running out of butter is like running out of air” I once posted on Facebook. I know because when I went on a dairy free diet we no longer needed to buy butter but once a month at the most. Now, I am eating it again, but sparingly.
 
I still have a pound plus one stick of store brand butter in the freezer. One stick in the butter dish. These are from when butter was under $4.00.

Got another bottle of olive oil and have been starting to use that in place of butter in some ways. Like frying eggs and making a roux. I hit a sale on Colavita 34 oz bottle for $9.95! I never fry at high heat or deep-fry, so olive oil works for me.

I have read for a few months now, that olive oil and most other oils will become scarce this winter.
 
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Fyrefox said:
National Butter Day brought to my mind this tongue twister from 1899. Has anyone else encountered it? There are a number of variations.

Betty Botter bought a bit of butter;
“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o’ better butter
Will make my batter better.”

Then she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit o’ better butter.
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That speech is actually used to train auctioneers, to help them develop and perfect their chant.
 
Lee said:
Butter here in Canada is now $7.19 and that is not a typo.

One store has it on sale today for $4.49.....there will be a stampede! And I'll be leading the line.
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WOW! usually by this time of year (holidays coming), butter prices have dropped almost everywhere. i found it at Lidl for $2/lb... you had to buy 2 lbs. shoprite is still just a few cents under $4.
 
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