[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

No, this is so much better!! I'm thinking of ordering.........

http://www.butterbell.com/

They've been selling them on QVC for a couple of years. It looks intriguing, but then I think about summer and the A/C being off while we are at work until the timer goes off in the afternoon. You try it, then let me know if the tablecloth survives the meltdown, and if it does, I'll get one also.

Originally Posted by krisk

my dad used to put wrapped butter in restaurants in his armpits

I've never done quite that, but have been known to warm the pre-packed butter pats between my hands for a minute or so, in the hand that is in my lap. Good manners would suggest that one should balance them on the edge of the saucer that is under your coffee or tea in order to warm, but in the US, we hardly ever have saucers anymore. How common and pedestrian.

Originally Posted by wodin

Hmmm, you don't have the right answer. You’re supposed to butter the bread before toasting it so it gets, nice and toasty brown. And you toast in on a griddle and have some cheese and maybe a slice or two of Spam between two pieces of the bread. Then you submerge the whole thing in a flat bowl of cream of tomato soup, an’ eat um all up!

As I've posted many times before, my mom was a beautiful, independent, liberated woman. However, she was a terrible cook! Her idea of grilled cheese was to rip some cold margarine onto torn plain white bread, then slap on pieces of cheese (usually sans cellophane wrapper), then put it under the broiler until the smoke alarm went off.

So imagine my delight when Tim made me a grilled cheese when we were first married. He butters and browns the bread, then turns it over, re-butters it, then adds the cheese. So it is toasty inside and out. You can actually feel your arteries hardening, which is analogous to deliciousness as the smoke alarm was to doneness.

Originally Posted by NormHart

I never had real butter until I left home. Mom didn't believe in the stuff. I have never purchased margarine since I had my first taste of the real thing.

We never had butter either. Only margarine, and when "I can't believe they want us to think it tastes like butter" came out, Mom went to that. I love butter!