Dave Bugg wrote:

>
> > At least it is still a pound package.
>
> I may be missing something, but what's the big deal? Sounds like a good idea
> to me. I hate having to re-wrap a messy portion of butter from which I have
> taken a measure.

Who would have thought that people were too stupid to figure out how to cut a
stick of butter in half. Maybe it would have been cheaper for them to just
change the package and provide written instructions.

FWIW. most butter here is sold in one pound blocks. Some of the better quality
butters are also sold in half pound blocks. Not surprisingly, they are half as
big as the one pound blocks. Very few brands are sold in sticks. In the grocery
store where I usually shop they have 5 or 6 brands of butter, some of which
sell salted and unsalted. Two of them also sell half pound sizes. Only one
(premium) brand comes in boxes of sticks, both salted and unsalted.
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