@PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoButter is serious businesslemmy.worldimagemessage-square175fedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down113file-text
arrow-up11.2Karrow-down1imageButter is serious businesslemmy.world@PugJesus@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square175fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•4 months agoBetty Botta bought some butter; “But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter! If I put it in my batter It will make my batter bitter. But a bit o’ better butter Will but make my batter better.” Then she bought a bit o’ butter Better than the bitter butter, Made her bitter batter better. So ’twas better Betty Botta Bought a bit o’ better butter.
minus-square@jdeath@lemm.eelinkfedilink4•4 months agoi think i haven’t heard that in 30 years or something. totally forgot about it! my brain has a funny feeling now
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-24 months agoSame. I don’t even remember where I read it, but when I saw “bad butter,” it came back to me. And I looked it up, of course.
minus-square@BluesF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•4 months agoHuh, that’s a lot longer that the version I knew growing up: "Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter So Betty bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter Betty bought before"
minus-square@samus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoYeah, this is the OG version and has been written in different forms over the years.
Betty Botta bought some butter;
“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit o’ better butter
Will but make my batter better.”
Then she bought a bit o’ butter
Better than the bitter butter,
Made her bitter batter better.
So ’twas better Betty Botta
Bought a bit o’ better butter.
i think i haven’t heard that in 30 years or something. totally forgot about it! my brain has a funny feeling now
Same. I don’t even remember where I read it, but when I saw “bad butter,” it came back to me. And I looked it up, of course.
Huh, that’s a lot longer that the version I knew growing up:
"Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter
So Betty bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter Betty bought before"
Yeah, this is the OG version and has been written in different forms over the years.