Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Hey, back in the day didn't butter come in sticks longer than today's
> little 3.25" stubbies? Seems like maybe they were half-pound sticks --
> same cross section but twice as long. I used marge for many years; when I
> came back to butter it seems like this change had happened. Or am I
> misremembering? Or is this a regional thing? In the middle there, I did
> move to the other end of the country.
>
>
In the western portion of the US, butter sticks are shorter and fatter.
In the eastern side they're longer and skinnier. Each are 1/4 pound but
the dimensions vary. There actually are names for the shape of those
different sticks, but I can't recall it now?