Ancient, still-edible chunk of butter unearthed in Irish bog

Fox News ^ | Published June 14, 2016 | By James Rogers

[Red Badger]

The 2,000 year-old bog butter found in Emlagh Bog, County Meath on June 1 (Cavan County Museum/Copper Tree Photography).

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Would you eat ancient butter? A 2,000-year-old 20-pound chunk of butter has been unearthed from a peat bog in Ireland, which is said to still be edible.

The large lump of butter was discovered by farmer Jack Conway while cutting turf for fuel in Emlagh Bog, County Meath on June 1. The strange rugby-ball shaped object was buried about 16 feet down in the bog.

Conway quickly realized that he had found what is known as ‘bog butter’ and contacted the nearby Cavan County Museum. “It’s very noteworthy,” Savina Donohoe, curator of the Cavan County Museum, told FoxNews.com. “Butter, a long time ago, was very valuable – it was seen as a luxury.”

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!...............Gods-Graves-Grease...........................

[leaning conservative]

Mmmmmmm.........2,000 year old butter. No thanks! ; )

[minnesota_bound]

If it is not Bog Butter then it isn’t real butter.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Is it better bog butter?

[Peter ODonnell]

Sure, it would be grand with some nice boiled taters and a slice of ham.

[gigster]

It’s Mo Better Butter...

[JonPreston]

Who doesn’t use a bog when stashing butter?

[Bobalu]

I ain’t eatin it! :-(

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Now we need to find some 2000 year old waffles..........................

[Red Badger]

But it’s ORGANIC!...........................

[Red Badger]

Bog butter better be better butter....................

[Red Badger]

Taters weren’t around in Ireland 2000 years ago.
They are a New World vegetable.......................

[loungitude]

still be edible

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You first.

[Jim from C-Town]

I think I got dysentery just thinking about it.

[hanamizu]

I wonder who tried it to see if it is “still edible”? Reminds me of a story Solzhenitsyn told about reading in a Russian newspaper about some miners who found some ancient frozen salamanders and immediately ate them “with relish”. He new that, of course, the miners were prisoners of the gulag as who else would eagerly eat 1000 year old salamanders.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Basting bog butter better be better bog butter baster.

[RevelationDavid]

lol

[SpaceBar]

I can’t believe it’s bog butter.