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The Daily PollBOG BUTTER IS among some of the 2,000 archaeological items handed into the National Museum of Ireland in the past year.
Butter was sometimes buried in a bog to preserve it, with the practice dating back to as early as 2000 BC.
Maeve Sikora, Keeper of Antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland, says the butter is in fact “still surviving”.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, she described the butter as a “white looking” wax with a “very distinctive smell”.
“It’s often noticed on bogs or it has been in the past because of its colour. So, while the bog is completely brown, the bog butter will be this white material in the middle that the crows are landing on and eating,” Sikora said.
The bog butter is good enough for the crows, but would you give eating preserved bog butter a go?
So today we’re asking: Would you eat Bronze Age bog butter?
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Ah shur if I chance the wife’s cooking, the butter would be no bother!
@Padhraic McLaughlin: I’d try it on the wife first.
@James Leahy: kinky
@orb7eckn: Last Tango in Loughfad, Portnoo.
@Padhraic McLaughlin: you are a brave man
The best thing before sliced bread
@Larry Betts: I had a snackbox from supermacs, Heuston station. Anything after that muck is an improvement.
What a fascinating poll…
I can’t wait to see the outcome…
Jaysus tonight.
@KTH: if you’ve no interest, no need to take part and certainly not comment.
@Tomas Barrett:
No, I’m really interested…
I wonder would people eat 3000 year old butter that was buried in a bog?
Next poll…
Do you like blinking?
@Tomas Ah but that’s not the lifestyle of an internet troll. Let the sad man live!
@KTH: Jaysus Tonight! Genuine must-see TV and the chat show the public really want. HBO – do your thing!
Ehhh no, I eat nothing out of the bog as a rule.
Best Before is not the same as Use By. Be grand.
@ecrowley ecrowley: ‘Best be Fore’ is a recommendation of Westmeath bog butter.
The iron age butter is way better
I can’t believe it’s not butter.
Nothing like some bronze age bog butter on some toast to start the morning. Kerrygold smerrygold
I would imagine it would be a lot healthier than the fake butter you get in the shops now a days besides Kerrygold
@peter kellegher: Is this the butter Trump is always on about? When he was on about draining the swamp, it was really about him getting to that bronze-age bog butter. The truth always comes out in the end!
@SerotoninWars: Amazing how you can turn something around to suit your agenda.
@peter kellegher: T’was just a joke :)
Me bollix
@Fintan Pox: The question was not ‘Which part of your anatomy do you think with?’.
@Fintan Pox: yes you could put butter on your bollix. Whatever your into I suppose.
@Fintan Pox: Fianna Fail broke the country Ask the IMF Bertie Kissers
@reg morrisey:
Sang a la Leonard Cohen…ahem.
You could put butter on your bollix
It’d be a new low as an alcoholic
To search for the divine in the spreadable
And find out it’s wholly inedible
You could put butter on your bollix
But to utter such would defy logic
To take the dairy produce
Just to find a new way to self-abuse
Just an oily mass of shame
Suzanne won’t be coming around again
She was bringing tea and oranges
But now you’re stuck there with 20 sponges
You should have kept your plans symbolic
Now you’ve butter on your bollix
Do doo doo doo :(
I’m normally a big fan of our most ancient foods like Banshee Bones. The modern ethical ones though, where no banshees were harmed in the making of humankind’s greatest snack.
Bog butter is a great band name.
Wouldn’t try it unless its low fat and lowers cholesterol.
So fine gael the so called law and order party picks a senator involved in a scuffle who has to pay a farmer 39000 euro to be a candidate in the upcoming election. It beggars belief.
Ya can’t bate a better bit a butter on de spuds
Last tango in Offaly anyone?
I cant believe its not… Oh wait it is!
I have seen no evidence that the Bronze-agers baked bread. That being so, what did they spread this butter on?
A surefire cure for constipation!
@Padraig O’Brien: “Buttery Scuttery. From to the bog to the table,and back to the bog again”
Probably just as good as ozempic.
You would want to stick a few jax rolls in the freezer for a couple of hours prior to giving the aul bog butter a lash. Given the current price of KerryGold we might all be hunting for bog butter.
If I wanted to end it all probably.
Only if it comes on toast.
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