This is a thing?!

[pikhq@social.treehouse.systems]

@twipped yes, it's a Thing. dairies east of the rockies and west of the rockies ended up using different machines for packing butter

[artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay]

@twipped until a few years ago, trader joe's sold west coast butter on the east coast. i definitely preferred it, but my favorite packaging format continues to be 250g paper-wrapped blocks. unfortunately they're not used in the us very frequently.

[faithisleaping@anarres.family]

@twipped It's totally a thing. And Canadian butter usually comes in a 0.5 kg block, not 1/4 lb sticks. We have different butter containers here.

[ret@furry.engineer]

@twipped definitely thought these were LED COBs at first.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@twipped yes. It was super confusing when I first moved to the west coast.

[ananas@jorts.horse]

@twipped
I thought these were SMT LEDs at first lol

[ananas@jorts.horse]

@ret @twipped

Same

[willi@hachyderm.io]

@twipped how to sell different products for items almost identical in volume and function? nice wendor lock in leason here, thanks.

[robz@toot.robzazueta.com]

@twipped West coaster here...

The one on the right looks exactly like the butter I'm familiar with.

The butter on the left looks like the fancy Kerrygold stuff my wife buys for her *amazing* homemade bread.

I assumed it was a European or Irish thing...

East coasters - is it the opposite for you?

[twipped@twipped.social]

@robz it was, the first time I saw the shorter bricks after moving from michigan to california, I was like "tf is this? I don't have muscle memory for measuing this."

[robz@toot.robzazueta.com]

@twipped absolutely wild. Back when we weren't so connected as a country, our standards were weirdly regional.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@twipped

[ the metric system enters the chat ]

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@crowbriarhexe @dianea @twipped

There's almost a 1% difference in volume.

[twipped@twipped.social]

@ricko wait, what?

[twipped@twipped.social]

@ricko oh you mean the three different color road bins?

[paveljanicek@mamutovo.cz]

@twipped Me, an European, who was hoping that at least the "stick of butter" is consistent across all of the USA:

Also me, an European: Well, the Americans will do just about anything than switch to the metric system!

[nyanbinary@infosec.exchange]

@twipped soooo... is this a spectrum, where the further you go west the butter gets smaller? How small is Hawaiian butter?

Or is it a binary? If so: Where is the cutover??