Me? I would call it 8 tablespoons of butter, half a cup of butter, or a stick of butter. Never in my whole life did I think anything of this until a little over a year ago when someone referred to it as a cube of butter. Um, what? Since the I've heard it all over the place. Is this regional? How does that butter look even remotely like a cube? Let's get really specific and just call it a rectangular prism of butter. I really don't have a problem with this, it just makes me curious. So, what say you? Cube of butter? Stick of butter? Four ounces of butter?
6 comments:
its a stick. But i think rectangular prism may catch on...
Most definitely a stick of butter. Possibly half a cup, but only if I'm reading a recipe. Cube... only if I have already eaten a lot and it is now cube shaped.
It's a stick. I'd be lying if I said I haven't heard anyone call it a cube before, but those people obviously failed geometry.
It's a cube. But I'm from Idaho.
Huh. I was totally like "It's a cube of butter" which is embarrassing because I'm a math major. But my mother is from Idaho so I'll blame it on her.
I call it a stick. However, several older recipes I use (mostly from my grandmother, who was from Idaho, mind you) call it a cube.
Post a Comment