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Post by AnastasiaBeaverhausn on Aug 1, 2018 2:56:07 GMT
I buy the 4 box packs from Costco. We just moved so I made a Costco run and picked more up. Have you seen this? It's really freaking me out. They made the sticks fatter but much shorter. My whole sense of what I know is all off kilter. I thought maybe butter is shaped differently in Texas than in Michigan where I moved from. Then I realized I bought a butter dish from Target yesterday and it was long and thin like sticks of butter that I know. Is Costco just allowed to change the shape of stick butter like that? It's really freaking me out. But then I unpack boxes all day so I don't have much going on in my life! 😂😂
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Post by gotranch on Aug 1, 2018 3:03:50 GMT
Ha, ha! They did that to the butter at Sam's Club too. It's been that way at least 6 months now. It still throws me off too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 3:23:52 GMT
I haven't encountered that yet. AnastasiaBeaverhausn, I use my butter dish by placing the butter in the cover and using the bottom as the lid. It fits the larger Kerry Gold blocks better this way. |
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 1, 2018 3:30:01 GMT
So I am guessing the cylindrical butter we get from a local dairy would really mess with you then.
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Aug 1, 2018 3:33:49 GMT
Hi fellow Michigander (or I guess it would be ex now) I just had to buy butter at Whole Foods this week and theirs was like that too. It’s just wrong, I think. I haven’t bought it at Costco lately, but now I am prepared.
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Post by lucyg on Aug 1, 2018 3:33:57 GMT
If you used the right Costco butter (Kerrygold from Ireland, in half-pound blocks), you wouldn't have this problem. You'd have a different butter storage problem. More like mine.  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 1, 2018 3:40:08 GMT
I always buy my butter at Costco and I haven’t seen it that way (yet). My guess is that it can probably be merchandised better or fit in the coolers more efficiently in the other size.
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Post by LeaP on Aug 1, 2018 4:21:21 GMT
It seems to be regional. In NYC I grew up with thin sticks, here in Los Angeles most are stout sticks. Now that we use less butter, sometimes I go for the European block of butter. Mmmm butter.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Aug 1, 2018 4:30:15 GMT
They only sell Island Farms or Dairyland butter at my Costco. You have more fun with your butter sticks than I do with my bricks.
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Post by caangel on Aug 1, 2018 4:46:01 GMT
It seems to be regional. In NYC I grew up with thin sticks, here in Los Angeles most are stout sticks. Now that we use less butter, sometimes I go for the European block of butter. Mmmm butter. I'm also in so cal and have been buying fat butter sticks at Costco for years. |
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Post by worrywart on Aug 1, 2018 4:53:11 GMT
Yup, I always remember Costco butter being in shorter sticks!
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Post by quinlove on Aug 1, 2018 5:04:47 GMT
I haven't encountered that yet. AnastasiaBeaverhausn, I use my butter dish by placing the butter in the cover and using the bottom as the lid. It fits the larger Kerry Gold blocks better this way. This is genius ! Thanks. |
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Post by littlemama on Aug 1, 2018 12:16:05 GMT
What the heck? I need my butter to be in the standard size and shape it always has been. I can estimate Tbsp without looking at the guide!
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Post by scrappyesq on Aug 1, 2018 12:18:06 GMT
I just want to know WHO thought this was a good idea???
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Post by idahopea on Aug 1, 2018 12:23:14 GMT
It is a regional thing I've lived in several parts of the country and it depends on where you live. I promise you will get used to it and adjust your visual perspective!
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 1, 2018 12:24:18 GMT
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Post by JustTricia on Aug 1, 2018 12:33:17 GMT
Are there measurement markers still on the packaging? Are they the same weight as the longer sticks, just different shape? Trying to picture it in my brain and how you would measure out an amount.
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Post by ddly on Aug 1, 2018 12:38:52 GMT
Trader Joe’s butter is like this. I use a small vintage Pyrex refrigerator dish as my butter dish. I usually cut the thinner sticks in half.
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Post by caangel on Aug 1, 2018 12:52:19 GMT
Are there measurement markers still on the packaging? Are they the same weight as the longer sticks, just different shape? Trying to picture it in my brain and how you would measure out an amount. Yes, yes |
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Post by annaintx on Aug 1, 2018 12:52:51 GMT
Our Costco butter has been like this for years. We are in TX. There are markings on the sticks so it's not a big deal, but it did take getting used to.
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Post by Monica* on Aug 1, 2018 13:25:21 GMT
It is a regional thing I've lived in several parts of the country and it depends on where you live. I promise you will get used to it and adjust your visual perspective! Yes. I grew up in LA with the short stout sticks. When I moved to KY, I remember thinking how odd the long thin sticks were. But now I'm so used to them that when I go home to LA, the short chubby sticks looks so odd to me now. I wonder why there are regional differences. We need butter unity now! |
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Post by AnastasiaBeaverhausn on Aug 1, 2018 13:29:25 GMT
It is a regional thing I've lived in several parts of the country and it depends on where you live. I promise you will get used to it and adjust your visual perspective! Yes. I grew up in LA with the short stout sticks. When I moved to KY, I remember thinking how odd the long thin sticks were. But now I'm so used to them that when I go home to LA, the short chubby sticks looks so odd to me now. I wonder why there are regional differences. We need butter unity now! This might be one issue we can all get behind in such divided times!! |
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Post by mustlovecats on Aug 1, 2018 14:11:06 GMT
I store my butter in a butter bell so that it doesn’t matter what shape the butter comes from the store in!
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Post by trollie on Aug 1, 2018 14:13:35 GMT
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Post by AngieandSnoopy on Aug 1, 2018 14:21:17 GMT
The thing is, all my butter storage containers are made for the long thin sticks so there isn't any getting used to it, it has to fit!
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Post by pattyraindrops on Aug 1, 2018 14:34:37 GMT
The thing is, all my butter storage containers are made for the long thin sticks so there isn't any getting used to it, it has to fit! I'very never had that problem. I've had both shapes many times over the years. I think all have been made for the long, skinny sticks. The short ones always fit, they just don't take up all the length. |
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 1, 2018 14:40:42 GMT
Weird, our butter has apparently always been short fat sticks, (according to the article) I don’t recall ever seeing thin butter sticks. But our fat sticks fit in all the butter containers I have.
I buy Darigold, Tillamook and Costco butter. Even in the olden days when my mom bought Nucoa margarine in sticks it came in fat sticks. What a weird thing, I couldn’t imagine what had happened when you were saying it didn’t fit in your butter containers. I was imagining cubes of butter instead of sticks,
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Aug 1, 2018 14:44:33 GMT
If you used the right Costco butter ( Kerrygold from Ireland, in half-pound blocks), you wouldn't have this problem. You'd have a different butter storage problem. More like mine.  That is my FAVORITE butter. So yummy! |
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Post by Nink on Aug 1, 2018 14:54:11 GMT
Regional size differences for butter make about as much sense to me as regional differences for Best Foods/Helmans, Carl’s Jr. /Hardee’s.... Why?  🤷♀️🤦♀️ |
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Post by seaexplore on Aug 1, 2018 15:00:02 GMT
No clue. I open the package, take out the butter, use it. Lol
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