Ever heard of the Butter Line?

[kurio@sunny.garden]

@infobeautiful we love olive oil AND olives! 🫒

[calm_bomb@metalhead.club]

@infobeautiful I think this is bullshit. I'm Romanian and we usually cook with sunflower oil. Olive oil is considered a "delicacy" and used mostly in salads, and butter is too expensive for most people to use in cooking.

[michael@westergaard.social]

This is either outdated, wrong, or misleading. After the 1980s it should also include margarine.

[magnus@venner.network]

@calm_bomb @infobeautiful (map does not consider other edible oils)

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@catzilla @raymaccarthy @infobeautiful how confident were you in their ages? Maybe they were actually 90 instead of 100. Nobody cared that much if the local church in Italy put the year of birth as 1917 vs. 1922 on a baptismal certificate completed years after the fact. Parents lied so they could keep their kids out of school. The govt. didn't care to audit them.

[johns_priv@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful As an olive person, I look at butter people with a mix of disgust and curiosity.

[regendans@todon.eu]

@infobeautiful Olive oil for the win! 🪔

[tarofiume@mastodon.uno]

@infobeautiful for liguria is wrong, there is not a single receipts with butter

[thomasjwebb@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful the green area is the flavor zone

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@heinragas @infobeautiful

another map:

olive oil and tomatoes are significantly more healthy than butter and potatoes

but of course there's other factors

[shadsterling@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful makes sense; people in colder places eating more calories

[voguelagalere@mastodon.online]

@infobeautiful Where the butter line and the vermouth line intersect is where you'll find Julia Child.

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@infobeautiful I'm in the olive oil area!

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@infobeautiful the correct answer is butter + olive oil. Making veggies taste good since forever.

[lydialurch@mastodon.social]

@kimlockhartga @infobeautiful This is the way.

[stephengentle@ioc.exchange]

@ShadSterling @infobeautiful Also if you look at the climate, the olive oil region is close to exactly the areas where olives can be easily cultivated.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@kimlockhartga Amen @infobeautiful

[torf@c.im]

@infobeautiful which sense does this comparison make without sunflower and other oils?

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful Huh! I wonder about the Scrapple Line here in the US. I think it runs North-South, somewhere West of Virginia. To the West, nobody has heard of scrapple. To the East, it's a common food.

[captain69@mastodon.social]

@infobeautiful WHAT ABOUT THE REAL BUTTER ? WICH IS SALTED BUTTER !