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This Baby Loves Butter

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Kate really loves butter. From Cheeseslave.

Anne Marie's daughter Kate loves butter. Really, really loves butter. Like "eat it straight out of the wrapper" loves butter. Kate completely puts my love of butter to shame.

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13 Comments:

people eating sticks of butter has to be one of the grossest things ever. don't get me wrong-i LOVE butter, but that picture totally make me want to gnar all over everything. anyone remember that god awful tv commercial where that woman sits there devouring one? oog, i feel nauseated now...

i used to do that when i was 5 or 6. i would sneak into the kitchen and take a bite out of a stick before putting it back in the fridge. ooooh my mom screamed when she found the nibbled butter sticks... although it was a mystery as to who was nibbling them, at least for a while.

I, too, used to do that -- or something similar. Never ate right off the stick, but I used to cut off large chunks of the stick and down them. Seems like a thing kids do. I'm sure she'll grow out of it -- but will hopefully retain a healthy appreciation for butter.

I'm not sure what anyone else thinks...but that's gross and most definitely not "cute." Don't get me wrong, I love butter...but that's nasty.

Now, biting it right off the stick is just poor table manners and will get you a stern look from Nanny. However, putting your teeth through a cool chunk of good butter (think a pat of something Irish floating on top of a piece of crusty bread) is a pleasure that I bet all of us here can appreciate. Moderation in all things, including moderation.

That makes me cringe.

Looks like margarine...even better...

I used to eat crisco shortening out of the can when I was a kid. One day I got caught and haven't had it since.

A whole stick seems horribly unhealthy, but I readily admit to habitually cutting small chunks of pure butter to savor if it's already out for some socially legitimate purpose. And sometimes if I'm just craving a little bit of salty, cold richness that melts sweetly on the tongue.

I have heard stories that 'back in the old days,' 19th century/early 20th century) I guess when people had less money for treats and kids were less active that it was common to give kids sticks of butter to eat--sometimes rolled in sugar. Also, instead of cake, kids would get slices of bread spread with like icing-style amounts of butter--like an inch thick, then sprinkled with sugar.

Before all of us go, eww...we've probably eaten this much butter, knowingly or not in some restaurant dishes--I bet I did on some of the street jacket potatoes I ate in the UK!

The best part of that photo is that the kid is sitting in the shopping cart, in the store! I would have loved to have seen a baby chowin on some butter at my last trip to the supermarket!

that's pretty nasty, but the wrapper really looks like cream cheese, not butter.

She's so cute, but she's starting off on the wrong foot healthwise!!

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