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Today's discovery: West of the Rockies, butter is the wrong shape!
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/landolakes/27231/ has a pic of Western butter. Weird.
Eastern butter is this shape:
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/324357/2/istockphoto_324357_food_sticks_of_butter.jpg
(Non-Americans: A stick of butter is a standard measurement in the US--1 stick is 4 oz, and they come in packs of 2 or 4.)
Wackos. It's not enough to call Hellmann's mayo Best Foods ;) This would totally confuse me. European butter did my head in at first--it comes in 250g blocks. I'm used to eyeballing butter for most cooking, so I had to adjust when I moved. Ounces and spoons are marked on the label for US butter but not European, too! (some brands have 25g segments marked, but they're quite close together so it's easy to be off.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter has dimensions, but they screwed up: Eastern butter IS packed 2x2. (Someone mis-copied from Cook's; I'm a subscriber and checked the original.) Some margarine is packed flat, though
http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/landolakes/27231/ has a pic of Western butter. Weird.
Eastern butter is this shape:
http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/324357/2/istockphoto_324357_food_sticks_of_butter.jpg
(Non-Americans: A stick of butter is a standard measurement in the US--1 stick is 4 oz, and they come in packs of 2 or 4.)
Wackos. It's not enough to call Hellmann's mayo Best Foods ;) This would totally confuse me. European butter did my head in at first--it comes in 250g blocks. I'm used to eyeballing butter for most cooking, so I had to adjust when I moved. Ounces and spoons are marked on the label for US butter but not European, too! (some brands have 25g segments marked, but they're quite close together so it's easy to be off.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter has dimensions, but they screwed up: Eastern butter IS packed 2x2. (Someone mis-copied from Cook's; I'm a subscriber and checked the original.) Some margarine is packed flat, though
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Bizarrely, even though North American butter is normally light coloured, Quebec still has a law saying margarine has to be white so it won't be confused with butter! Margarine is normally coloured really yellow in North America.
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