Who is right, me or DH? Crucial butter question!

[JaneS]

I am about to make hot cross buns and DH is going out to get some ingredients. We need butter, but are currently (no, I'm not going there ...) arguing terminology.

I say it's a 'pat of butter'; DH says the correct term for a block of butter is a 'brick'. WTF?

Please reassure me that butter comes in pats, not 'bricks'?!

Hope you're feeling the importance of this one, btw ...

Are we all agreed that

Butter = the good stuff of life

Hybrid spreadables/margerine concoctions = tragic

?

Oh actually, I am not after consensus.

It is A Proclomation.

So says Queen of all correct Answers.

I only like Lurpak

I eat a lot.

at caramel. I second your proclamation!

winter - fair enough, you've got me craving fresh-baked bread slathered with melty butter now, which is a) crap for my diet and b) about the most inappropriate thing I could want in this weather!

Thanks girls, I'm glad I'm not the only one to ban 'spreads' from the house. We were given a lovely butterdish for our wedding, 16 years ago and have had butter ever since. Not good for the diet, but good for the soul.

That's that settled.

I don't have this problem with my dp as he's not a native English speaker so whatever I say it is he just accepts

Another family here who calls them a 'block' or a 'pack'.

"We believe that there were 48 pats to the pound, meaning that nothing has really changed ? a pat was 1/2 tablespoon, 1-1/2 teaspoons, 1/3 of an ounce, or 9 grams."

so.. it isn't a pat. a pat is much smaller.

never heard of a brick though!

A pat is a small quantity, such as you might spread on your toast.

A 250g block of butter is just that, a block, or perhaps a pack, of butter.

A brick is something you build your house with.

So how big is a knob?

9 inches.

Maybe in your house, Hecate!

Oi, you mean bastards, you've turned my nice domestic butter-query thread into a sordid knob discussion!

AND I haven't bloody had any since before Lent ... have pity, have pity!

That's an odd thing to give up for Lent, LRD. Most people give up a food or drink...

Btw, vegetarian, my DH isn't a native English speaker either, he's Russian. Being petty about minor vocabulary disagreements is my way of pretending that the fact I can't speak his language at all is really more or less irrelevant, you know?

I just couldn't resist the straight line, LRD, sorry. [bublush]

Indeed, Hecate, indeed. Could you convince him of that for me, please?

It's fine Ellen, I'm blaming Hecate, mainly because I can.

If he's given it up for lent, then I can think of far better uses for your gavel, frankly!

And yes, you can blame me, my shoulders are broad

That am, erm, lovely image there, thanks!

Yes. Can always rely on me to lower the tone.

Sorry about that.

not really

I'm not positive this was a sparkling intellectual debate before that except to me, so I wouldn't worry!

The problem with spreadable butter, IME, is that it isn't actually spreadable.

Indeed. And seems to be a magnet for crumbs, too.