Butter fun facts

Greeks and Romans used to put butter in their hair to make them look shiny.

 

Marigolds were once used to color butter.

 

Butter. :thumb: All righty then.

BDL

 

We consume more than 4 pounds of butter per person per year.

 

"We" being who?

 

Well, read it here....it said Americans but I decided to include myself in there as well if you don't mind .....

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2236187/...s-About-Butter

But then again, maybe I am wrong ? Correct me please if I am ?

 

That's what I was wondering - thanks. I guess Canada is in America, right? But then again, so is Uruguay, Paraguay, Chili, Equator, Brazil....

Personally I know I eat WAY more than 4lbs of butter per year. But then again I'm French, and we eat butter on bread (with jam) for breakfast. Which reminds me - time for breakfast!

 

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Have a wonderful breakfast.....

 

And they are used to feed chickens, so that they appear golden yellow when slaughtered rather then pale white.

 

ha, does that also make the yolks yellower? i heard they feed something to chickens here to make eggs to use in fettuccine, so they look more yellow and don;t have to add coloring. there's a french cheese that's colored yellow with flowers

But back to butter, isn;t there a (?)medieval tower (or maybe more than one) called the "butter tower" paid for by some butter tax or something?

 

It takes about 21 pounds of milk to make a pound of butter

 

Yes it does. In fact that's the only thing that determines the color of yolks: the color of the flowers the chicken eats. Since bright orange yolks are quite fashionable, many farmers make their chicken eat bright orange flowers.

 

And it takes about 2,000 liters of water to produce 1 pound of milk. Do the math. Ouch!

 

First, there's the arithmetic. If 1000 liters of water make 1 liter of milk, then 2000 liters of milk make 2 liters of milk which is 4.4 lbs.

Second, what happens to the roughly 1998 liters of water which don't go into the milk?

BDL

 

Wow I really need to get back to school.

I guess cows pee too?