Giant Slab of Bog Butter Recovered in Ireland

Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 17, 2024 | editors / unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland's northwestern coastline, according to a report in The Irish News. Bog butter is dairy or animal fat that has been placed in cool, oxygen-poor peat in order to preserve it, or perhaps as a gift to the gods. "The bogs would have acted as a cool place, almost like a refrigerator and the butter would have stayed there until it was retrieved by the farmer, or perhaps in this case the local community, and then subsequently was lost for one reason or another," said archaeologist Paula Harvey, who examined the site where the butter was found. She said that the farmer, Michael Boyle, and his companion stopped digging when they spotted the unusual object. "He got a very distinct smell of a cheesy butter from it and quickly realized that it was butter," Harvey explained. A small piece of wood was found on the mass, suggesting that it may have been placed in a box that has since decomposed. The butter is currently being analyzed at the National Museum of Ireland.

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Look for the special sale at Whole Paycheck...

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Where is “SE adia”?

[Ann Archy]

YUM !

[Yardstick]

3200 calories per pound of butter, so that stash would sustain a person for about 100 days. Worth the effort to set it aside!

[Yardstick]

Hillary “Bog Butter” Clinton

Kinda catchy...

[Johnny Wumbo]

Those hand puppet Boglins toys from the 80s kinda remind me of her
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiEBENqptEI

[BobL]

Still better than that John Kerry butter.

[telescope115]

I can’t begin to imagine what microorganisms are crawling around in that glop.

[dfwgator]

That’s good stuff.

[BipolarBob]

East of SW adia. They may have meant Asia. Eye ooze spelchek.

[NautiNurse]

“It does taste like butter, an unsalted butter at that. I had a sliver and I’m still here to tell the tale,” said archaeologist Paula Harvey.

[dfwgator]

“If you think it’s butter, but it’s snot!”

[Bonemaker]

“Giant Slab of Bog Butter Recovered in Ireland”

A slab of Irish “bog butter” has been posing aa president for 4 years.

[Bonemaker]

“Hillary “Bog Butter” Clinton”

With leg cylinders of large curd cottage cheese.

[SunkenCiv]

His would be called “Kerrygolddigger”.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[Bonemaker]

😀

[Salamander]

Archaeology people are strange birds.

They’ve tasted ancient honey and wine so a glob of cruddy butter isn’t out of reach.

:D

[Larry Lucido]

I thought it was overpriced too. Only bought it once.