YA and I switched from margarine to butter a long time ago. It was a hit to our budget at the time so I’ve spent years keeping an eye out for butter on sale. I have absolutely no brand loyalty to any kind of butter, unless you count the seriously fancy hand churned butter that I get a Kowolskis every couple of years.
I’ve also been lucky enough to have two friends who have worked at dairies. My friend Tim worked at one of the big names for years and he would regularly be able to grab a pound or two of butter from their “free shop”. Right about the time he retired, my friend Rita moved to the same company and now part of my solstice gift every year is a gift bag of butter. Such wonderful friends.
Because of how I acquire some of my butter, I don’t always know what I have in the fridge. Last week, I opened up a box of butter and was surprised when eight little wrapped bars fell out. Instead of four ½ cup bars, there were eight ¼ cup bars. As a baker who goes through quite a bit of butter, I laughed out loud. I didn’t know anybody packaged butter like this. I do occasionally need a half a stick of butter but it’s pretty rare and when I do, I just cut a whole bar in half. Not a reach.
But I suppose there may actually be a need for these half bars since somebody somewhere when to the trouble to manufacture and package these things???
Butter or margarine? Any brand loyalty? Would you appreciate half bars?
Trail Baboon 