Cream in Cultures
In the 11th century, farmers in ______ regularly paid their taxes to the king in pounds of fresh-churned butter!
Norway!
Some of the earliest butter churn vessels belonged to the Beersheba culture in Palestine, dating to ____ centuries Av. Jc.
6.5 to 5.5 centuries B.C.
Cathedrals in Rouen & Borges, France, have this shared nickname thanks to the Catholic Church's butter ban during medieval Lent.
They both sport the title of "Tour de Beurre" or Butter Towers!
Instead of turning to cough syrup, this ancient Italian empire would use butter to cure things like sore throat! Hold onto your togas!
Rome
The word Butter comes from the Latin, Butyrum.
Butyrum comes from a mix of the Greek words "bous" & "turos", which mean this.
Cow & Cheese
In 13th century Tibet, legend says the marriage of a Chinese princess to a Tibetan King brought the creation of this drink! Step aside, Boba!
Butter Tea, pronounced "Bod Ja" in Tibetan.
The first electric butter churn was patented in this year, the same year Coca-Cola was sold for the first time in bottles.
1894
Bartolomeo Scappi, cook to this leader of the Catholic Church in 1536, created the first butter sculpture, including an elephant out of butter!
I wonder how that would taste on a communion wafer!
Pope Pius V
Butter buried in bogs back in the 1st century is still being dug up today in ______. I wonder how long Lucky Charms would last if they were buried.
Ireland
The diet of cows affects the way your butter turns out.
Wether your cow was fed grass or grain has a direct impact on this eye-catching quality.
Colour!
Carotene in grass makes butter more yellow.
The fat percentage of butter here is 80 %, which is more than 18 % less than this clarified butter in ____.
India (99%)
____ style butter dish uses a bell shaped top, and a bottom dish filled with water (although it doesn't sport the country's emblematic béret).
French Style
In the Mahabharata, an epic from ____ religion, the Kaurava (descendants of the legendary king Kuru) were born from pots of ghee!
Hindu
India remains the biggest producer of butter. Making over _____ metric tons a year. Holy cow!
6 million+ metric tons (about 6.9 total)
__% of milk produced annually becomes butter. That's a whole lot of pats!
33% (a third)
Some butters have Protected-Origins, which promotes and protects the names of certain food & products. For example, Mantequilla de Soria, of _____. Olé!
Spain
AMS - the Automatic Milking System, lets cows chose their own milking times! The country with the most farms with AMS is _______. Hold onto your cheese danish!
Denmark
In 1490, nobles from this country had to ask the Pope to allow butter to be added to Stollen, a fruit bread, during Christmas.
Germany
______ consumes more butter per person than any other nationality, weighing in at about 6kg (13.6lbs) a year.
That's twice the weight of the average Kiwi bird!
New Zealand
Between 1886 and 1917, it was illegal to manufacture this butter substitute in Canada.
Margarine
France's iconic pastry, the croissant, contains __g of butter per pastry - about the same as a AAA battery!
12 grams
After Napoleon III challenged his people with coming up with a butter substitute, chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered the main ingredient for ____. I can't believe it's not butter!
Margarine
In Tibetan Budhism, butter sculptures are used as offerings during Losar, the Tibetan version of this January holiday.
Now that's one way to kick off 2027!
Tibetan New Year
18 warehouses across Canada are part of this stockpile. Mainly used to keep prices stable, the pallets are so heavy they have to be reinforced with steel. Ouch!
National Butter Reserve
One stick of butter weighs __g, the same as a baseball! Butter up!
113 grams