Butter fun facts

[friedzucchini]

Pioneer wives moving Westward learned to make butter on the march by using the motion of the wagon to churn their butter.

 

[friedzucchini]

Butter contributes only 3% of the total fat in the U.S. food supply.

 

[friedzucchini]

In Quebec, Canada, a law existed until July 2008 which stated that margarine must be a different color from butter.

 

[french fries]

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

 

[petalsandcoco]

Marigolds were once used to color butter.

 

[boar_d_laze]

Butter. :thumb: All righty then.

BDL

 

[friedzucchini]

The world record for butter eating is 7 quarter pound sticks of salted butter in 5 minutes by Donald Lerman.

 

[petalsandcoco]

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

 

[french fries]

"We" being who?

 

[petalsandcoco]

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 ?

 

[french fries]

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!

 

[french fries]

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[petalsandcoco]

Have a wonderful breakfast.....

 

[ed buchanan]

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

 

[siduri]

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?

 

[just jim]

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

 

[french fries]

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.

 

[french fries]

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

 

[boar_d_laze]

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

 

[french fries]

Wow I really need to get back to school.

I guess cows pee too?