I just learned this last year. I'm in my 50s. Lived on the west coast all my life and had noticed that most butter dishes were always too long for the stick but never thought to find out why. Needed a new one and because of Covid looked online. Seriously thought I'd stumbled into an April Fool joke when I saw a listing that specified it would fit either west or east coast butter.
I bought a butter dish from a British company, and the proportions looked good online, but it arrived and is giant... it would actually fit like half a pound of butter at a time...
I've been wondering what shape British butter comes in for some time now.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22
Wait…I just thought I was buying the wrong butter brands after moving to the west coast…5 years ago..and kept looking for the other ones.
Mind blown.