The US' Butter Size Border
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2021
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Brain: you seriously wanna waste 6 mins learning about butter?
Heart: Meh
Well technically it's Prefrontal Cortex to cerebellum.
@Spatza What does god have to do with the context of butter?
@@cyrusthegreat7030
I guess he is a bot
@Spatza what does this have to do with anything?
@@kimjong-un5570it’s definitely a bot
"The US' butter size border" that's either a very big butter or a very small border.
@Laquelectro butter
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I legitimately had no idea that butter came in short, fat sticks in other states. My entire universe is shaken.
In Canada, our butter comes in 1lb 2.5"X2.5"4.5" bricks wrapped in the same sort of foil paper that chewing gum comes in
@@cameronwebster6866 Yeah, but you also have milk bags, so we take your dairy non-sense with a grain of salt. Stop trying to be special, Canada.
@@magrue Hey, milk bags are more efficient on plastic, most of the plastic is in the jug you keep and just a little in the bag which is shipped.
I eat them hole or whole. Take that as you will
@@magrue Russia, Estonia, Argentina, and a few other countries also use bagged milk.
Years ago, I bought this thing called a Butter Buddy used for buttering corn. The only problem was, I live on the west coast, and it was sized for Elgin butter. For the longest time, I had no idea butter came in other sizes, so I just assumed you were supposed to soften the butter and just shove it in, and that it was a bad design by the Butter Buddy.
Well it is a bad design, they could have easily accommodated both shapes, but they didn't do their homework.
You don't say "elgin", you just say butter. Butter buddy is designed for sticks of butter, not western butter lumps.
@@_PatrickO you're joking right?
@@jesses30 No. We don't invent new names for the normal stick of butter because some fat cats on the west coast couldn't buy the right equipment in the 1920s. There seems to be no reason at all that they keep packaging butter differently on the west coast. People need to get over historical tribalism and grow up. Imagine being so mentally ill, you defend a different size of butter because a rich guy cut corners literally 100 years ago.
@@jesses30 Unfortunately not. Why would you pass up the epic 'Western Stubby' in favor of 'western butter lumps'? Why, why, why?
I read the title as "Butter sized border" and thought this would be about the smallest state border.
Me too, I was quite disappointed at first 😂
Lol same and after watching this i thought how did he upload and i watch this?
me2
@Spatzayay we found a new bot! Beep bup boop beep boop
@@minecrafting_il nah look at his content (just the titles don't give him any views obviously). I think it's a person just spamming content annoy people. They clearly have a lot of free time on their hands
this is a nice video about bricks
Bricks of Butter
HEY THAT WAS THE PATENT VIDEO
Butter Bricks
piss bricks
can we declare a war on bricks?
Having recently moved to California from Florida, I was shocked to find that something as familiar as butter was different. Thank you for finally putting my curiosity at ease.
“No cap fam, that hits different” might just be the worst thing I’ve ever heard on this channel.
I love it
Me too!
Not.
I don't know, "Yeeted a meeting" might be worse.
For the past 20 years I've wondered why the butter I buy here doesn't match the size of the butter sticks my mom bought at "home". I can't believe the answer just landed in my lap. Thank you.
I don't know if this is a joke or a serious comment
@@normiewhodrawsonpaper4580 it’s probably true. If I moved to the western United States without watching this video, I’d probably be thinking the same thing. I never even knew they made butter in different shaped sticks
I just moved to the midwest recently (two months ago) and was confused why the butter sticks were longer here, but not enuf to seek out why... Then this vid was suggested to me by the algorithm and explained all i needed to kno and then some heh
as a Ukrainian viewer I find this fascinating
I moved from Michigan to Arizona and have been confused for over a decade.
This is proof he can make a video about literally anything and get thousands of views. I look forward to his video on drying paint.
that's next week i believe.
@@_ikako_ No, next week is growing lawn. Maybe the week after.
@@lonestarr1490 oh my bad, I read the schedule wrong
I thought it was to be about boiling water. It's a fascinating subject.
I’d rather have a comprehensive video on the making of and different types of BRICKS!
2:39 NAtional BIScuit COmpany.
Nabisco.
Holy shit I never realized this
I grew up in New England and when I moved to California and bought butter I just assumed the dairy industry just decided to change the shape... this makes way more sense...
1: I'm genuinelly surprised Texas doesn't have its own butter-standard.
2: That butter-lord working in Biblical butter-quotes into his official Federal document slayed me.
I don’t know why Texas is included in the west on HAI’s butter map. We have long quarter-pound sticks, at least in Houston
We kinda have both here in Texas. I never understood why there was 2 different kinds, just chalked it up to brand differences
We have both here. I know Houston and East Texas are more the fans of bigger butter, while Austin and San Antonio are about equal with both types.
It wouldn't be the first time that HAI got something factually incorrect.
I second the point that around Houston they aren't the shorter variety.
I've lived in the Texas Panhandle my whole life and I've never seen anything other than an Elgin
"Is that a Western Stubbie in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"
Western Stubbie? No, I'm packing an Elgin-style.
OMG, those East Coasters are barbarians. I've always had my suspicions, but now I have proof.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Nah you're packign one of the eastern half sticks. I know because you replied.
Both 😏
@@Three_Random_Words you know what the original definition of barbarian is, right?
That was actually insane to learn for me. I'm from the Panhandle of Oklahoma and we both shapes of butter at stores. I thought everyone had both types of butter for all my life until I went to college.
I live in Texas and its the same here.
i'm from central oklahoma, and i've never seen the stubier sticks in my life.
i live in north carolina and ive seen both here, although long sticks are much more common of course
this content is great for ADHD viewers, the pacing and semi-satirical delivery is perfect for retaining the viewers attention, well done
As someone that probably has ADHD, yes, yes it is. I've been bingewatching this channel for days.
You didn't have to call me out like that.
As someone with adhd I feel very called out right now
This has been one of my favorite channels for years
As someone with adhd, I’m here because of a discussion on FB about butter shapes.
Also, originally from the Chicago area and have to say that his pronunciation of Elgin is incorrect and driving me nuts as I’ve never heard it pronounced that way.
I’m also not going to stop calling that other shape the weird shaped butter.
"and like JFK not being assassinated, that changed in the 60's"
Bruh.
too soon
That blew many's mind tbh
@@whafflete6721 including JFKs
Blake no he just repeated inStall’s joke
I love how can HAI can lose their sanity over butter stick sizes
@Brownskikuca This guy is spamming these comments everywhere, so just report him and move on.
Edit: He’s gone! *Good.*
@@christopherrichardson3757 what did they comment about
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 Probably an Islamic propagandist
@@brandenr6073 nope. I looked at his channel and hes a religion hating Authleft communist
@@br8973 then wtf?
Potential content for yearly correction video: I’d imagine the Elgin stick and Elgin Butter Tub Company are pronounced with a soft g, like cotton gin or the alcohol gin, since that’s how the Illinois city Elgin is pronounced.
And the Elgin Watch Company
he mispronounces a lot of things. even dictionary words.
As a Chicagoan, I flipped out over this.
While the town of Elgin in Scotland is pronounced with a hard G.
Thanks for this information. I grew up in Minnesota, the literal and historic home of "Land O' Lakes", and then when I moved to California a few years ago, discovered that my familiar 1 lb. brick of butter box 🎁 could not be found.
HAI is great for getting explanations for things you notice but are not important enough to research yourself. Now my curiosity is satisfied.
In the most ironic attempt at cultural appropriation, Land-O-Lakes got rid of the Native American but kept the land.
🤦
I was wondering how far I would have to scroll before finding this comment. Good to see HAI recognizes the inherent claim that the Native Americans have to this country's butter...
@@dave200204 Considering the North Americans had no dairy production whatsoever (aside from occasional use of dog milk), maybe we could consider the butter industry as some sort of reparations. There were no real viable dairy animals in North America.
Land'o'Lakes was nonsensical from the very beginning. xD
@@NozomuYume What definition of "reparations" are you using lol
HAHAHA MY SIDES XDDDD
I find the "waterboarding the gingerbread man" part way funnier than it should be
Stop, it’s the BIA!!!
"Do you know the Muffin Man."
Shrek Reference
He must be butter because he is on a roll.
And arousing.
I've lived in the west my whole life and only recently moved to chicago. The butter thing surprised me way more than it should have but I just had no idea the entire east side had weird long butter.
I had no idea I was missing this knowledge. A couple years ago my local grocery store replaced their store brand butter shape with a longer, more slender version I'd never seen before. Apparently they merely started selling east coast butter here in the west.
Here in Germany and probably the rest of Europe we have bricks of butter that weigh 250g and have markings for every 50g so you can cut through the packaging to get the right amount of butter.
yeah the sticks have markings for cutting in the butter in the US too
same in Australia, there are a couple of different shapes but all 250g, and 50g markings.
Your comment made me actually get up and check out my butter, and no, I don't think this holds up for the entirety of Europe, here in Poland butter is actually 200g (at least the brand I have) and I've never seen any markings like that, I usually estimate where to cut if I have to
What are you talking about? I may have missed it but don't think it exist for major makes of butter in France and the UK.
Same idea, different units. Our sticks of butter are 1/4 lb (113 grams) and are divided into tablespoons - a unit of volume - because why not.
My home city (Cork in Ireland) has its own butter museum. Its actually butter than what you would think.
WOW! Can’t believe I missed it when I was in Cork in ‘77...
Well, the Irish sure do know their butter.
I see what you did there with the dad pun . And you're right the joke was butter than I'd thought it would be
Take my like and get out.
Really? Is it too small to be a tourist destination? I also missed it when I was there in 2019.
Growing up in Southern California, I saw the long "Elgin" style most of the time up through the mid-to-late 90's. The "Western-stubbie" became much more prevalent after that, but both versions are available at most grocery stores today.
Yes, I lived in california for most of my life and recently moved to michigan. The butter size threw me off and I wasn't sure if I was just imagining it or not
Surprised that you didn't at least mention that most people in the US have probably eaten a few of the National Biscuit Company's products (under the rebranded name...Nabisco).
It became WHAT
@@spookyplaguedoctor5714 NaBisCo... Kind of like how 3M is Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (with a huge history of accidental discoveries/inventions, like Post It notes).
_It's a non-stop disco_
_Bet you it's Nabisco_
_Bet you didn't know, woo-oo_
- System of a Down
@@kray3883 Or maybe how Nat'l Cash Register became NCR?
@@kray3883 or like how banana companies involved in banana republics changed their names to dole or something so they couldn’t be held accountable for past actions
Are we just gonna ignore "waterboarding the gingerbread man"
Apparently
yeah
yes, but no.
He have it coming
i guess so lol
I misinterpreted the title as "Butter-sized Border". I literally thought there was some kind of niche - the size of butter - in the US border.
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Imagine watching this in like 2100 and hearing this man say “the butter company decided to Yeet a meeting with peters”
that was def the gayest thing ive ever heard
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The logistics of Butter Airlines
How to operate an airline on butter. Step 1: develop a turbine that runs on butter....
Funnily enough I live right on that border, so I can go to the store and see both sizes side by side. Never realized not everyone could do that.
The G in Elgin isn't pronounced that way. That G is pronounced like how it would be in the word Gin. Like a Gin and Tonic. So the towns name is El Gin for the sake of phonetics.
I'm from Chicago, and it never occurred to me that someone would pronounce it with a hard G. really threw me for a loop.
Literally paused the video to comment to my wife and then saw your comment!
@@ZuperZocker Same - just paused to comment 🤣
My soul died a bit each time he said it haha
@@bisepost Having been on the Milwaukee district west line Metra train to Elgin many times, I can confirm that Elgin is pronounced with a hard g.
Finally, a video about soft bricks.
They taste a lot better than the hard bricks.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 hol' up
I lived in North Carolina for most of my life then moved to Arizona. I never paid attention to the butter. After watching this video I had what I can only describe as a flashback moment realizing the difference between the two different butter sizes.
I genuinely appreciated this video. I moved from Wisconsin to California and was like “WTF?!” the first time I bought butter there. Now I understand it.
I couldn’t even focus once Sam said “El-ghen” instead of “El-Jin”.
I know! I came here to shame his pronunciation. There is however a city in Texas called Elgin, that is pronounced El-ghen. Perhaps that's where he gets it from?
Thank gawd somebody else picked up on that. Sam I used to like you 😭😭😭
For real living right by Elgin I was like did he really just say it that way lmao
Well he might have thought it was pronounced like the Scottish town and the ultimate namesake of the historically difficult Elgin Marbles, which is very definitely /'ɛlgɪn/ 'el-ghin'.
THANK YOU
as someone that has lived near Elgin, Illinois all my life, hearing it pronounced "el-gin" and not "el-jin" is very odd
I believe that Sam lived in Scotland for a while. Elgin in Scotland is pronounced with a hard g. That will be why he pronounced it like that. He probably didn't even think it could have a soft g.
@@davimurph It's more than just a Scottish thing - the name Elgin, which has also become a place name and a street name, etc., throughout the Commonwealth/former Empire, is _always_ pronounced with a hard "g". Except, it would seem, in Illinois (which doesn't even pronounce its own state name the way the rest of the world would, so that probably explains a lot).
@@stanrogers5613 and I'm sure the residents of Leicester, Gloucester, and Worcester don't mind AT ALL when Americans tell them that they don't know how to pronounce the names of their own hometowns, either. In the context of THIS video, it's correctly pronounced Elgin (/ˈɛldʒɪn/ EL-jin), which two seconds of research online would have cleared up. But of course I see your point...proper place-name pronunciations should come from what the REST OF THE WORLD (i.e. you) thinks it should be, not from what the ACTUAL people who live there TELL YOU it has been their entire lives. 🤨
@@frankkay6457 I kinda have a little problem with that with certain words. For instance, in my state, the small city of Buena Vista is pronounced Bue-nah Vih-stah when it’s clearly been pronounced wrong since it’s not English… It hits a nerve at times lol When its like that, locals can continue to mispronounce the words but I doubt they’ll have a right to correct a hispanic when it’s clearly two Spanish words 🤷🏻♀️
Now we need a video on how it became “el-jin” in Illinois. Why do we get it right in Des Moines but mess up so badly in Des Plaines?
Our stores here in NC sometimes have the western stubbies butter. When there is a holiday that will be the only butter left on the shelf. So many of our recipes call for a stick or two sticks of butter, I think people don’t realize the stick just holds the same amount, it is just a different shape. I got butter at $1 a pound last Thanksgiving because that western stubbies butter was way marked down and no one would buy it.
As someone who lives on this butter divide albeit the western side(plentywood MT), I can say that I've seen both types of stick through my entire life, we also have 5 to 1lb butter rolls that I believe are made by huderite or Amish communities that are rather popular for locals to purchase
You know the pandemic has raged on too long when I excitedly watch a six minute video about the variation in size of butter packaging.
And it’s really raged on too long when you’re watching it 9 months after it was uploaded.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
The pan....oh! Right! Totally. The pandemic, is definitely why I'm here and not a innate curiosity for the mundanely weird. >,>
I'd be watching this even if the pandemic never existed
Everybody who's even remotely familiar with northeastern Illinois: "EL-JIN!!!!!!!!!! JIN!!!!! LIKE THE DRINK!!!!!! J-J-JIN!!!!"
We have Elgin watches, too, so I wonder why the soft G pronunciation is not prominent.
Me, as I watch this in Elgin.
El-ghen.
I love that this vid is triggering the FIBs
@@adambaxter2038 can confirm
1:51 "Butter and honey shall HE eat..."
I live in Oregon and grew up in Georgia, and in both states, I've observed both butter shapes.
You figure the National Biscuit Company would be named NBC in the future. Nope. It's Nabisco!
They don't want us knowing that they're secretly NBC in disguise.
I was today years old when I realized that Nabisco was short for National Biscuit Company. 🤯
You misspelled “Mondelez International”
Ah yes I wish we would use the old school way of push words together more often. Wm. =William, Ass’n=association, or Na-Bis-Co instead of NBC
Proof of this is the logo seen at 2:59 - this is the same logo that's incorporated into the cookies of an Oreo.
The butter-shape-divide actually extends up into Canada too. Speaking of Canada, there's a whole controversy/conspiracy going on there right now about hard butter, just in case you wanted another absurd butter-related topic to cover… 🤔
Wait, there are things _going on_ in Canada? Never thought that.
EDIT: Just reading an article about it on BBC news: Buttergate :D
I've heard of this! I had heard that it might have to do with the feed not being what it usually is, but that was just the last time I looked into it.
Don't you guys sell milk in bags?
In BC most of the butter seems to be sold in 1lb blocks. And almost none of the butter dishes you can buy on Amazon fit it.
As for milk, I've never seen a bag. Just 4L plastic jugs, paper cartons, and glass bottles.
@@schwig44 At least in Ontario they do, here in Manitoba milk is sold in 4-litre jugs (and I think that applies to the rest of Western Canada as well)
Fascinating -- a few months ago I encountered a box with stubby sticks of butter here in New York at a Whole Foods, and found it intriguing, as I'd never encountered butter packaged like this. I would have never imagined it was the standard way of packaging butter in half the country.
According to the map he’s shown several times in the video Texas should have western stubbies but I live in Texas and we have eastern longies
We get a choice of the two the last three years (between SA and Houston). Thanks to this video, I now know country of origin of the new stubbies.
Yeah I live in Teaxs too and I can't remember seeing butter in western stubbies even when Iived in Nevada and California then again maybe I never paid attention.
Not sure if different parts of the state get different versions, but I've grown up and lived my life in Houston and have only ever seen the long sticks. Might be different in the other large cities in the state.
@@rictusnithor5602 I once encountered the western stubbies in Houston, but it was some brand I never heard of before, apparently from the west. But all major brands in Houston are eastern Elgin sticks.
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.
👏😋 very gud lol
Yo this Slaps
I need a beat for thid
That's even better if you say it in a British accent
I thought it was betty bought butter but the butter was bitter so betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better
yes
0:40 47 pages, pfft
It's double spaced with footnotes, more like 10 regular pages
In Canada (or at least the part of I'm from) most of our butter just comes in full, 1lb blocks (technically 454 grams) wrapped in thin foil.
Yes, it's like that where I am in Canada as well. It was very confusing for my teen who was making frosting for the first time and the US recipe called for 1 stick (1/4 lb or 1/2 c) and they put in the full pound and wondered why it just tasted like slightly sweetened butter and not buttercream frosting.
This video is relevant to my interests.
Something you can be happy about.
Moved from the east coast to the west coast a few years ago and this absolutely rocked my world. Now that I know the reason behind it I get homesick for butter sizes.
This is the best of hai's videos and it is amazing
National Biscuit Company is the predecessor name of Nabisco, in case you didn't recognize it.
Anyone remember the "Yo! You work out?" California dairy commercials?
As someone who moved from the East Coast to the West, I have legit been wondering about this since I moved here. Thank you, Sam. You have answered what Google couldn't.
4:34 “ah yes Tenneskansas and New Jerland”
We have both sizes at the store I go to in Arizona. Never knew it was a regional thing, I always thought it was just a preference when buying.
I've lived in far south, south central, or north Texas most of my life, and have never seen "Western stubby" shaped butter here.
When we moved to Arizona for a couple of years in the 80s, I remember my mother being annoyed that she had to buy a new butter dish, and couldn't find one that matched our dish set.🤣
Quarpoubusti is even funnier to the three of us that know you were calling back to a Nabisco joke that got cut from the script.
Most of HAI's jokes are obvious, surface-level quips, so it's nice to see he's evolving.
Lol
"Creamy cow juice."
I see HAI is being paid by the margarine marketing board.
1:08, that dude put on so much butter.
Topics like this are what makes this channel so good
Elgin is pronounced "El-jin". As in, "I'll have a gin and tonic".
I'm pretty sure he (and other youtubers) purposefully mispronounce words to get people to comment on them. Just an easy way to get more engagement.
Between this and that time he said that Willard airport is in “Willard, Illinois” they’ve done Illinois towns dirty at least twice now!
Only regionally, and not by the people it was named after (unless later generations locally changed the pronunciation). Everywhere else, it's pronounced with a soft g.
In Canada they pronounce the g like good. There's an Elgin near me pronounced like gin and it threw me off when I heard the Canadian version
@@thatonedog819 Also in Canada most regular butter comes in full-size bricks. Butter wrapped as separate quarter-packs in the box is more expensive.
Elgin is pronounced L-Gin ( like the spirit). Its a city near Chicago.
ah, i miss chicago :(
i grew up in like the algonquin/crystal lake area so i was only 20 mins from elgin. i miss being near the big city
I was gonna comment the same thing. Guess you gotta be from the are to know that
If it's a placename from the French, that does make sense.
In Europe we have the shorter fatter sticks of butter, But they come wrapped in a thick foil instead of having cardboard on it. I have also never seen butter sold in multipacks and only seen them sold individually
I always wondered why every butter dish seemed way too long with how short a stick of butter was. Also why sticks of butter on packages of mac and cheese looked so long. I just thought it was a historical thing
I can't believe I'm admitting this: this video is one of the most fascinating that's ever been posted on the HAI channel
3:04 Sam, please, don’t put my ears through that again lmao
It really did hit different, huh
Especially after that one segment from the brick video.
4:19 is worse
Fun fact: The stubbier size has less surface area to volume ratio, so it requires less packaging.
Good point!
4:42 - "Waterboarding the gingerbread man"
Here in California, you can often find both if you're looking for it. Source: we normally get the shorter butter but we recently got the longer butter
We also have Kerrygold which seems to be it's own thing. At least that's what I get, so none of this video was relevant to me.
Even on the east coast, I see and purchase both forms of butter. Perhaps we're not as divided as we think
I was going to say, I lived in Oregon and honestly don't know if I ever actually saw the shorter sticks. I know you could get them but they didn't seem that common. Maybe by West Coast he means California?
@@sc9160 it really depends on the brand I live in California and see the longer sticks more often but I’d definitely seen a lot of the shorter sticks as well
@@sc9160 I live in Oregon and while I'm not totally sure, I think we always get the longer sticks too. I don't ever remember getting butter sticks that looked as short and stubby as the ones shown here.
0:55 theres 3 mistakes on this map, Tennessee and Arkansas are one, the weird part of Maryland is it's own state and Delaware and New Jersey are one.
also Iowa doesn't have it's lil nub sticking down into Missouri!
This is the best hai video, it just simply doesn’t get better than this
Next time on HAI: The correct pronunciation of "Elgin, Illinois."
This channel is always churning out the facts and has a small margarine for error.
It really butters my biscuit.
Yes, but this video was butter than most.
Careful, don't wanna spread yourself too thin
last time i came this early my girlfriend told me that it was okay and she still loves me for my personality.
lies! you don't have a girlfriend
@@MichelleObamasBBC HOW DID YOU KNOW?!!
Girlfriend? What is that?
@@prasoongupta12 he was watching you for years.
@@solusxb its something to have the seks with. As somebody who does the seks everyday, naturally I am bit of an expert on such things.
be in the middle of the east and west coast and you get both in stores!
We still use Firkins in the UK for cask beer. It's 9 gallons of beer or 1/4 of a barrel.
There's also Pin, 4.5 gallons; kilderkin, 18 gallons; barrel, 36 gallons; hogshead, 54 gallons; butt, 108 gallons; and the tun, 216 gallons. These are all UK gallons and are specific to beer, wine versions are slightly bigger.
As an Illinoisan I am greatly offended that you pronounce Elgin as "El-ghen" and not "El-jin"
As an Illinoisan, even though this state sucks, that does in fact grind my gears
See you in the correction video.
I am also deeply offended. Sam better apologize in an end-of-year corrections video.
I live in Elgin County in Ontario, and we pronounce the hard G.
In Texas it’s El-ghen so perhaps Sam comes from a state where Elgin is pronounced that way
This puts a major dent in the possibility of creating a giant butter wall across the Mexican border.
well the entire border is in the western zone, so that’s very well possible
@Spatza begone bot these comment are for butter
I think we'd need some bigger sticks anyway.
The stubbies were useful whenever you only needed like half a stick of butter for a recipe and you wouldn't have to open an entire stick of butter. I miss them, they were useful, but I live in Florida now instead if New Mexico and I haven't seen my short friends in a while.
I've spent most of my life in Rocky Mountain states with a 16 year foray on the east coast. I have only had eaten Elgin butter my entire life, until recently when the grocery store ran out of the brands I usually buy and I had to get a different one, it was a Western Stubby.
I live in Houston where I have only seen that style. I wonder if El Paso has different
I noticed this when I moved to California! So strange and people looked at me like I was crazy when I said "no, this butter is a different size!"
Your map is wrong. I live in Texas, and they sell both here. But the longer sticks are MUCH more common.
Now, hang on a minute...
I live in California. For at least the past five years, we've had the Elgin sticks, at least in the store I go to.
This appears to be a much less solid "border" than the Hellmann's/Best Foods one.
I can add the important data point that in Colorado, a butter-border state, butter is available in both packages. But I think from now on, ima spring exclusively for western stubbies.
its pronounced "el-jin"
source: live there
OMG, every time he said it, I was like "It's El-jin". Not from there, but my dad was born in St. Charles and my grandma lived there for most of her life.
BAHAHAH ME TOO
As a born and bred member of the Elgin community, I feel like I need to point out that the city is Elgin (as in gin like the alcohol) not “gin” like ginkgo. Also, our forebears also made world-class watches back in the day.
no one cares
I have a butter dish with portion markings for both eastern and western butter sticks. I probably wouldn't have bothered except a) I like weird shit like that and b) I was tired of half-used butter sticks falling out of the butter box in the fridge. (Also, I shop at Trader Joe's a lot and their butter comes in the western shape.)
One of the most fascinating butter-related videos on the net.
Slight correction: texas uses the long sticks too. On the map it shows we use the western stubbies
Yes! Somebody says this. I was like am I crazy or something? This is the butter I know. But since I moved to the west coast that does explain why the butter is shorter
Here in Phoenix, we have the long buttersticks.
@@61rampy65 My guess is that it has to do with supplier location, rather than where it's sold. I'm in Colorado and we have long sticks but they aren't made here (at least the butter I buy isn't).
"According to a 30 page USDA report on US milk production, that I never imagined having to read" lmao!
@Spatza I'm an atheist, and grown adult. You're weird.
@@markchurch524 He’s a spammer, so just report his comments. I have reported about a dozen of his identical comments so far.
@@christopherrichardson3757 Done.
I was really confused at first cause I'm from Arizona, yet the butter my family always bought was long and skinny. But then I looked it up and Imperial (the brand my family always bought) sells it that way everywhere.
East Coaster (Vrginia) here. Both formats are available locally. I use the shorter sticks as (a) I don't refrigerate my "daily" butter ("French" butter keeper) and (b) a full stick goes rancid before I can use it.
Here in Aus our bitter comes in a little rectangular tub so we don’t have to crumple up the packaging
We have plastic tubs too
that's spreadable butter, that always comes in tubs, unlike the "unspreadable" butter that comes as wrapped up slabs.
@@xander1052 yeah
where is Aus do you get butter in tubs? mine are wrapped in paper.
Here in Aus ?? Now it's getting really confusing ;-)
I swear, the more I watch educational RUclips, the more I understand the references from Music Man.
I was going to say, I'm pretty sure that is the only time I've heard reference to a "firkin"..... aaaaaand now the song is stuck in my head.
@@kittawa Is the line “firkin and the flypaper”? I’ve been singing that song for 50 years, but don’t really remember that word!
@@samiam619 I just had to look it up again because I couldn't remember at which point in the song firkins appeared.
I've seen it online as either, "Cash for the noggins, and the piggins, and the firkins" or "Cash for the noggins, and the pickins, and the firkins." But don't have access to the music book itself so don't know which is the correct version. :)
@@samiam619 If you want to have a listen, it is from the Rock Island opening song from The Music Man.
Everything comes down to Music Man.