@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoButter is serious businesslemmy.worldimagemessage-square181fedilinkarrow-up11.22K
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•1 year 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@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 year 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@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year 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@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year 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.