Is nothing standard?

[alexist]

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

Comments

[anam-uk.livejournal.com]

I assume that its supermarket butter. I only saw catering pats in LV, but it was the ubiquitous land o lard stuff. Its just not as good as kerrygold you know ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kent/]

I don't know WTF the second picture is of, but it's not butter. BUTTER IS YELLOW.

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the color coding system of margarine and butter. It helps keep the parve and dairy from getting mixed up.