American butter is shit tbf

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    Betty Botta bought some butter;

    “But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!

    If I put it in my batter

    It will make my batter bitter.

    But a bit o’ better butter

    Will but 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 Botta

    Bought a bit o’ better butter.

    • jdeath@lemm.ee
      4·
      8 months ago

      i think i haven’t heard that in 30 years or something. totally forgot about it! my brain has a funny feeling now

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Same. I don’t even remember where I read it, but when I saw “bad butter,” it came back to me. And I looked it up, of course.

    • BluesF@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 months ago

      Huh, that’s a lot longer that the version I knew growing up:

      "Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter

      So Betty bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter Betty bought before"