While looking for some new hardware for my kitchen, I ended up at Anthropologie. The cyber version, not the brick-and-mortar one because all the neat stores are not HERE (yes, I'm talking to YOU, Title Nine, IKEA, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods). Before checking out with my five new knobs, I trolled through the clearance bin and found the most twee butter dish. We eat butter at Chez Green Girl. Margarine is for sickos. In the Dairy State we're all about the real deal. We eat butter to the tune of at least a pound or more a week. I always keep a stick of better on the counter, nice and soft for spreading on toast, bread, English muffins--Paula Deen would feel right at home here. For $12 I could buy this adorable stoneware butter dish with a cover in a color that would match my redecorating.
Of course I clicked "Buy now."
No, I did not read the fine print. It's a freaking butter dish, right?
Then the UPS guy brought it to my front door a week later and I tore into the box, delighted with my five new knobs and perplexed by the butter dish.
Behold:
That, friends, is my new butter dish. Next to the butter dish is a stick of butter. In Wisconsin all butter comes packaged in sticks measuring a half-cup each. I've never seen it any other size or shape--except packaged as a whole pound block.
See how the butter is way too big for the butter dish?
Why would you design a butter dish perfectly sized for a half stick of butter?
And yet they did:
DETAILS
One pat or two? This festive stoneware container holds a half-stick of butter beneath its lid.- Stoneware
- Dishwasher and microwave safe
- 2.5"H, 6"W, 4"D
- Imported
Had I bothered to read the fine print and not made my decision based solely on the picture, I wouldn't be stuck with this ridiculous version of a butter dish.
Half stick indeed. A pox on you, Anthropologie, and all of your silly proportions. Us real girls need actual sized kitchenware, not the diet-sized crap. (Or spinster-sized, come to think of it--this would be perfect for my grandma...)
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