Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס: Bog butter!

Bog butter!

Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bogwww.washingtonpost.com Due to low oxygen levels and high acidity, bogs have long been known to preserve everything from butter to corpses.

I'm team "leave it in the bog, don't fuck with bogs" personally

The Old Gods return, but instead of rising from the depths of the ocean clamouring for human sacrifices, they crawl out of the bogs and demand we return their butter.

I always wonder if a family got like 10 miles away and then was like “dang it honey we forgot the butter!”

I swear I submerged it by this shrub, but they all look the same. Ack, where is the butter?

A 22-lb football-shape of butter is a nontrivial amount of butter.

False: this event will be featured in every game of trivia I run for the rest of my life

Samuel Pepys had to bury an entire wheel of good Dutch cheese before fleeing the Great Fire of London after all, so this may have been a similar situation...

They all felt compelled to touch the ancient butter for the picture. Forces Beyond Their Control Compelled Them.

Clark Ashton Smith's classic tale "The City of the Singing Flame" except the flame is a big wad of bog butter.

NOW WE PUT THIS ON THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BREAD FOR THE ULTIMATE FORBIDDEN GARLIC BREAD

Very pleased to learn somebody ate the bog butter so I don't have to

Bog butter infused with bog herbs sounds delicious

it was bog milk when I buried it

I for one would like to see an expansion of bog based dairy products

The bog giveth

Someone had a Kerry Gold stash up in Meath.

They should DNA test it and find the surviving descendants of the cows (or whatever) the original milk came from and get them together with the butter for a photo op and… I think that’s enough.

“everything from butter to corpses”

Is...is it...edible?

Yes!

It’s the only appropriate spread to use on your morning bog roll. 🤣

I hit the line button a bunch of times but it only recorded the one. I lol'ed in line at the grocery store.

There’s bonus points available if you were in either the dairy or “paper goods” aisle at the time..

If I were there I would be both horrified and also very tempted by the prospect of trying some.

oh no thank you

But think of the charges!

@gavia.bsky.social big bog news

omg!!!

The two grafs after “It’s actually not that uncommon of a find for turf cutters in Ireland, either,” are absolutely crazy lol

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