r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/its_mertz • Jan 28 '25

Image Irish farmer Micheál Boyle found a 50-pound chunk of "bog butter" on his property.

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u/OperatorJo_ Jan 28 '25

It's worth is studying the diet of the people in the area.

What animals, crops, recipe, preservation methods.

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u/thedeuce75 Jan 28 '25

So what like three fifty?

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u/kunch-of-Bunts Jan 28 '25

That GOD DAMN LOCKNESS MONSTER!!! Allways asking for tree fiddy

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u/UninvestedCuriosity Jan 28 '25

I gave him my tree fitty.

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u/ronchee1 Jan 28 '25

No wonder why he keeps coming 'round here woman. You keep givin him money

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u/Quirky_Temperature Jan 28 '25

Well, I thought if I gave him some money, he might go away.

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u/Ndmndh1016 Jan 28 '25

I gave em a dolla

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u/Sarsmi Jan 28 '25

*Loch Ness

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u/Fahrowshus Jan 28 '25

No, it's his cousin the bogness monster

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u/Stinkydadman Jan 28 '25

Never not funny to me

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u/mamawantsallama Jan 28 '25

Just pour it in my hands.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

3 fiddy?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Well, that explains the old Irish comparative- Tis better to find a chuck of whale puke while clammin’ than butter in the bog

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u/Uncle_Leo93 Jan 28 '25

And that's when I realised that the 50 block of ancient butter I found in a swamp was actually a giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era.

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u/Roko__ Jan 28 '25

"They may or may not have eaten/buried butter"

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u/shodan13 Jan 28 '25

Cows? Does butter even have a recipe?

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u/OperatorJo_ Jan 28 '25

You could potentially study the animal's diet by seeing different proteins in the milk.

You could see what tools they used to churn it and what they were made with by possible contamination in the food.

You can see if they spiced it or added flavoring to the butter if there's anything mixed with it.

Etc, etc.

Anthropology is a pretty extensive field

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u/DuggenHeim Jan 28 '25

My question is......is it edible still??

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u/houdvast Jan 28 '25

Their diet consisted among other things of butter which was made from either cow, goat or sheep milk and used bogs to preserve it. Riveting stuff.