Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> "Gabby" > writes:
> > That all depends where you live. I don't think I've ever seen 'sticks' of
> > butter anywhere in Canada (but admittedly I haven't been 'everywhere' in
> > Canada). Our choices are 1 lb & 1/2 lb blocks.
>
> I think everyplace I've been in the US uses 1/4 lb sticks as a
> standard, with whole lb blocks usually being available as well.
>
> Interestingly, the actual size of the stick (dimensions, not the
> amount of butter) have varied---when I was a kid, our family packed up
> and moved from Delaware to Arizona, and found that the 1/4 lb sticks
> of butter in AZ didn't fit our butter dishes; the butter sticks out
> there were shorter and stockier. This was in the late 70's (and at
> the time we didn't have Thomas's english muffins, and 1 liter glass
> Coke bottles were vastly more common than 12 oz cans or 2 liter
> plastic bottles).

The same thing happened to me when I moved to Calif. in
1972. The sticks there are shorter and fatter than the
sticks back here in PA. Had to buy new butter dishes
to fit.

Kate

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