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Would you eat the bog butter?
There is no butter I will not eat. I would eat the bog butter.
No, I am terrified of the bog butter and would not eat it.
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Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
Jack Conway of Ireland has found a 22 pound lump of butter estimated to be 2,000 years old in a peat bog.



This happens a lot:

quote:

Bog butter is just that: butter made from cow’s milk that’s been buried in a bog, though, after thousands of years, it often has the consistency of cheese.

It’s actually not that uncommon of a find for turf cutters in Ireland, either. As Smithsonian magazine noted, a 3,000-year-old, three-foot-wide barrel stuffed with 77 pounds of bog butter was found in 2009. Even more shocking, turf cutters found a 5,000-year-old wooden keg containing 100 pounds of the butter in 2013.

People have actually been stumbling upon bog butter for at least two centuries. In the 1892 edition of the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, the Rev. James O’Laverty recounts finding a lump that “still retains the marks of the hand and fingers of the ancient dame who pressed it into its present shape” and that “tastes somewhat like cheese.”

In her article “Bog Butter: A Two Thousand Year History” in the Journal of Irish Archaeology, Caroline Earwood wrote: “It is usually found as a whitish, solid mass of fatty material with a distinctive, pungent and slightly offensive smell. It is found either as a lump, or in containers which are most often made of wood but include baskets and skins.”

The bog keeps the butter preserved and, often, edible. But would you eat it? Would you eat the bog butter?

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Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
That's where I buried my smegma collection

Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014

I wouldnt eat that bog butter, personally.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
Wow, a Joementum post in GBS. :confused:

No, I probably wouldn't. If someone paid me though I'd definitely consider it!

Captain Splashback
Jan 1, 2007

BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
SPLASHBACK HOLDINGS LTD
PUCKINS AND PRINTERS PURVEYORS
I would eat it. Totally

Captain Splashback
Jan 1, 2007

BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
SPLASHBACK HOLDINGS LTD
PUCKINS AND PRINTERS PURVEYORS
How many chances do you get to eat 3 000 year old food!?

The Protagonist
Jun 29, 2009

The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.
I read this as dog butter, which I guess is also possible.

I will not answer the question though on either count

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound

Serviette posted:

I would eat it. Totally

Same. gently caress it, why not?

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

Serviette posted:

How many chances do you get to eat 3 000 year old food!?

you can eat rocks that are millions of years old

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
essence du cum sock

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons
I've eaten hog batter

Captain Splashback
Jan 1, 2007

BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
SPLASHBACK HOLDINGS LTD
PUCKINS AND PRINTERS PURVEYORS

treasure bear posted:

you can eat rocks that are millions of years old

Yeah, but nobody's going to serve them to me with 3,000 year old toast

TheBlackDuke
Jan 18, 2015

Assuming that after consuming the bog butter, you would acquire any unusual properties that it possessed, yes.

And yes otherwise too.

Captain Splashback
Jan 1, 2007

BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
SPLASHBACK HOLDINGS LTD
PUCKINS AND PRINTERS PURVEYORS
I never heard of bog butter before. Thanks OP. Now I've got something new to add to my gourmand bucket list

Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
I ate bog butter and all I got was this swamp rear end

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

everything is 13.8 billion years old. when i have a pudding, i think, wow this has been on an incredible journey, then i eat the pudding

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
I'd give it a try, assuming the first taste was free.

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker
it's probably cursed by an irish witch or something, of course i wouldn't eat it

edit: an irish bog witch

Pitdragon fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jun 15, 2016

ChrisHansen
Oct 28, 2014

Suck my damn balls.
Lipstick Apathy

treasure bear posted:

everything is 13.8 billion years old. when i have a pudding, i think, wow this has been on an incredible journey, then i eat the pudding

And the journey continues. Maybe one day a part of that pudding will become bog butter!

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
Is it going to make me sick? If not, then yeah, I'd probably give it a try. Deriving nourishment from the labor of someone from three thousand years ago sounds hell of rad to me.

Bloodfart McCoy
Jul 20, 2007

That's a high quality avatar right there.
Would use it as lube for my loving-machine.

naem
May 29, 2011

Joementum posted:

a whitish, solid mass of fatty material with a distinctive, pungent and slightly offensive smell

wow racist much??

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer
Bog Butters is my drag name

Lamebot
Sep 8, 2005

ロボ顔菌~♡
smashmouth eat the bog butter

Oh Don Piano
Nov 4, 2009

treasure bear posted:

everything is 13.8 billion years old. when i have a pudding, i think, wow this has been on an incredible journey, then i eat the pudding

*opening a koolaid jammer*"...namaste"

12gaugelobotomy
Apr 25, 2012

The Protagonist posted:

I read this as dog butter, which I guess is also possible.

I will not answer the question though on either count

I read also dog butter and am slightly disappointed that wasn't the actual topic.

No on dog butter yes on bog dutter.

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I want to pet the dog butter....he a good boy.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

naem posted:

wow racist much??

that smell is wet dog

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



treasure bear posted:

you can eat rocks that are millions of years old

i eat rocks all the time to help with the digestion of various grains and fibrous plants

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
Ancient bog butter seems like it would be a material component for a mid-level spell in Dungeons & Dragons.

Captain Splashback
Jan 1, 2007

BY APPOINTMENT TO HER MAJESTY
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
SPLASHBACK HOLDINGS LTD
PUCKINS AND PRINTERS PURVEYORS

Business Gorillas posted:

i eat rocks all the time to help with the digestion of various grains and fibrous plants

What are you? Some sort of alligator?!

GAYS FOR DAYS
Dec 22, 2005

by exmarx
Yeah, I would.

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


attractive woman lying on beach: would you mind rubbing this suntan lotion on me?

man: i'd be happy to!

candid camera announcer: she doesn't know yet, but we've secretly replaced her suntan lotion with bog butter. let's see what happens next!

criscodisco
Feb 18, 2004

do it
I ate some swamp lasagna I found once, so I don't see why not.

jazzyhattrick
Jul 1, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
What were all these ancient irishmen doing that involved throwing so much butter into the bog. Whatever it was i'll bet they were drunk.

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015


jazzyhattrick posted:

What were all these ancient irishmen doing that involved throwing so much butter into the bog. Whatever it was i'll bet they were drunk.

it's an old irish trick; bury your butter and your women in the bog so the vikings won't get em

King of Bees
Dec 28, 2012
Gravy Boat 2k
I eat everything g else I find in a bog. So why not?

afeelgoodpoop
Oct 14, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

MiracleWhale
Jun 30, 2015



don't let siege time get in the way of me time

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Blood Shart
Sep 23, 2010

I thought the thread was going to be about dog butter. This is a real let down, whelp only thing left to do is kill myself I guess.

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