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the texture word so good we forgive it for describing a college dining hall.
means Rich, smooth, and soft in a way that suggests butter — whether literally tasting of it or just having that melting, luxurious quality.
from Straight from butter, which travels back through Old English butere to Latin butyrum and Greek boutyron — often read as 'cow cheese,' though that ancient breakdown is debated. The dining-hall sense is a separate thread entirely: that 'buttery' comes from butt, the large cask, by way of Old French boterie — a room for storing butts of wine and ale. So the spreadable buttery and the boozy buttery are unrelated cousins who happen to share a name.
- medieval room
- originally where wine and ale were stored, not butter
- oxford slang
- still means a small campus snack bar
- diacetyl culprit
- the chemical that makes microwave popcorn smell buttery
- saddle praise
- leather called buttery is luxury's highest compliment
lurpak — danish butter brand, 60% of uk butter market share
kerrygold — irish butter, #1 imported butter in usa since 2010
president butter — french butter brand from normandy, exported globally since 1947