• Soviet Pigeon@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      What does o or uh mean? Like “Of”? And it is a big block of salted butter, is butter in USA usually salted? If I want to buy butter here than its not that easy to find a salted one. I usually have to salt it myself if I put it on bread, but what do you do with a 250g block of salted butter? Is it usefull?

      Edit: This are near 450g Butter (I only know 250g). And sticks?

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        6 months ago

        They both mean “of”, typically it would be spelled more like “land o’ lakes”, but they removed the apostrophe probably for marketing reasons. As for the other questions, butter comes in both salted and unsalted, but salted is more commonly bought. Likely because it tastes better on toasted bread/bagels/etc. You’d get unsalted for baking and recipes so you can properly measure the salt. The pack comes with four sticks, not one huge block (though that is rarely available). The sticks are four ounces each, so 1/4 of a pound. Its makes a lot more sense in Freedom Units rather than sane metric units. The sticks have measurement lines on the paper wrapper so you can just cut off a needed amount.

        For more butter facts… well actually no don’t refer others to me hah

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        Yes. It’s an old fashioned abbreviation for “of” such as in “twelve o’ clock” or “will o’ wisp”. They just dropped the apostrophe. Technically speaking, it sometimes abbreviates “of the”.