From "Parents Are Feeding Their Babies So Much Butter" (NY Magazine).
I was there 40 years before it was trendy. See "Back in the days when boys ate butter like it was candy."
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"Since becoming a parent, I’ve gotten used to scrolling past videos of babies gnawing on everything from bone marrow to full-size steaks."
"But lately, the babies on my feed are munching on a new snack: whole sticks of butter. On TikTok, parents are handing their 1-year-olds blocks of Kerrygold to gnaw on while they grocery shop and freezing sticks of butter to help with teething. To hear these moms tell it, butter from grass-fed cows is 'the best snack for babies no one talks about' and a miracle food that can supercharge their brain development. In one video, a mother films herself putting a pat of butter directly into her infant’s mouth. “My kids love butter and I let them eat as much as they want,” she wrote in the caption. After cutting up slabs of butter as a late-night snack, another mom yells to her kids, 'Come get your treat!'"
From "Parents Are Feeding Their Babies So Much Butter" (NY Magazine).
From "Parents Are Feeding Their Babies So Much Butter" (NY Magazine).
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As a parent of a newborn we had zero time for scrolling past videos of other parents, much less hours of it. Good thing the evil attraction of the tiny screen had yet to be unleashed on the innocent happy public.
I often eat raw butter. I make sure I always have a stick of butter out on the counter, warming up. Great Keto food. Really, the best.
The epiphany of dietary and body fat asynchronicity, and the cholesterol, inflammation paradox stalking horse on heart and health in modern medical.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t butter 100% animal fat?
Getting a head start on that arterial plaque I see.
All we had as kids was "oleo" and while it was OK spread on warm toast, it really shone as a way to remove tar from our hands and feet, which I am not sure what we played in to get it on ourselves, but I sure remember removing it with margarine.
I don't know her position on butter but Maria Schneider's Wikipedia page gives no indication she ever had children.
Such cute boys!
My Dad told me his mother used to give him lard for a treat.
I prefer deep fried butter. Mmm.
Butter is derived from milk. Babies like milk. Not surprised.
Shouting Thomas said “ I make sure I always have a stick of butter out on the counter, warming up.” Look into getting a Butter Bell if you want room temp butter. Keeps it fresh. Butterbell.com. Or Amazon through the Althouse portal.
I am told my Mom used to feed us butter when young. She was from rural Japan, and I guess that was common there.
Better than my youngest. We caught her munching on a raw onion, once.
I remember my grandad, after he had his carotids scraped out, going over to margarine. He swore off butter, and I missed it when we visited. I never bought into the 'butter is bad' story and have eaten butter my whole life, still do - whole milk, too. My daughter loved it as a kid and would ask to eat it, plain.
Kerrygold is highly salted. Salt is what keeps the butter from going rancid, but for me it's too salty. I normally cook with unsalted butter, and add salt 'to taste', myself I like that butter bell idea, @WK. Funny how things go 100% out of fashion, condemned by the experts, and here we are, back at the starting line.
Next up: Trendy moms discover milk from cows!
You don't have to encourage babies or toddlers to eat butter. Just set it in front of them and they will devour it. And, if your kids have teeth, they should be eating meat, especially meat on a bone they can hold and bite off what they can handle. It strengthens and widens their jaw which promotes straight teeth. Saves on paying for braces later on.
This just seems incredibly messy, particularly whenever the baby drops the butter. It's hard to see this as more than a stunt.
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I am a big fan of Kerrygold butter (and the Costco brand grass fed butter). One of my sisters used to eat butter straight when she was young, but it wasn't Kerrygold.
I cannot imagine what it does to your taste buds. Do you crave fats all the time?
I recall reading about a cross country skier who was trekking across the arctic. He would eat butter, claiming it was the most dense source of calories he could carry.
Now do bacon and red meat…
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
"I don't know her position on butter but Maria Schneider's Wikipedia page gives no indication she ever had children."
OK. That was a deep pull.
It's probably better than giving them sugar.
I saw what must have been a dozen hungry babies wearing little, red MAGA caps crawling all over the carcass of a road-killed deer across the road from the gun shop yesterday. The gun shop was packed, of course, it being Valentine's Day.
Hillbilly farm treat 1940s: lard spread sprinkled with sugar on chunks of warm homemade bread. And I have lived to be a healthy 79 always eating real butter, cooking in bacon grease. Genes are everything, my parents on same high fat diet living well into their 90s.
"...The epiphany of dietary and body fat asynchronicity, and the cholesterol, inflammation paradox stalking horse on heart and health in modern medical. ...."
n.n. and STINKY are the same person, change my mind.
’It's probably better than giving them sugar.’
Sugar is the devil.
Sugar is the original gateway drug.
When I was a little kid I made myself butter sandwiches, which I'm sure was fine. Although given the times, at some point in our house that became margarine, less fine.
"supercharge their brain development"
How does anyone know that? I call bullshit.
Peachy, babies fed low fat diets suffer all sorts of nutritional disorders including retarded brain development.
Yancey --my issue is with the idea that eating whole sticks of butter can "Supercharge brain development!"
I never said anything about young children avoiding fat altogether. Of course kids should eat fats.
I can't imagine cleaning greasy baby/toddler drool off of everything.
Enjoy that butter stick while you can Kids. Because when you get older you'll have to cut way back.
I can remember my mother swtiching over to margaine in the last 70s cause it was "healthier". What a downer. Fortunately, she switched back after a couple years. Better to have good tasting "unheathly" butter.
"Jersey Fled said...
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t butter 100% animal fat?"
No. It also contains water and proteins from milk. About 80% fat. If you want 100% fat, or close to it anyway, go for tallow (cow) or lard (pig), both rendered fat. I quit using seed oils for cooking and only use grass fed and finished tallow. It's a good source of fat-soluble vitamins, including A, E and D, which are known to enhance immune function. And it makes foot taste fantastic.
We used to eat cinnamon toast as a kid, which was buttered toast with sugar and cinnamon. So good.
I've snorted sugar off a toilet seat.
"Bob Boyd said...
I've snorted sugar off a toilet seat."
Beware of rats.
Back in the 1960s in Madison, Wiscsonsin, you couldn't buy yellow margarine. The stuff they sold was a white mass in a plastic bag with an orange dye blob which you would knead into the stuff to turn it yellow. During WWII restaurants could serve yellow pats of margarine, but they would be triangular rather than square.
Several things:
My mom used to give us butter-and-sugar sandwiches - brown sugar for a real treat. Unfortunately the butter was actually margarine back then; she's back on butter now. These sandwiches were decidedly a year, though, not part of our main nutritional load.
I second the butter bell suggestion.
European style butter - fermented, that is - is super good, and somewhat higher in butterfat than normal butter. I used to prefer Kerrygold but then switched.
Artic and antarctic travelers drop half a stick(? More?) of butter into their coffee to ensure they're taking in enough dense calories for the conditions they'll be in. This habit does not appeal to me even though I do like cream in my coffee.
And finally, straight butter as a snack grosses me out, for children or adults. I need a vehicle for the butter. Carbs, unfortunately, make a delicious vehicle. Less unfortunately, so do many vegetables - but they aren't as tempting to me as bread, potatoes, rice...
Decidedly a TREAT that is
"When I was a little kid I made myself butter sandwiches"
Was telling myself that, now in my late sixties, I had never made a snack of butter. Completely forgot good old bread-and-butter.
"I've snorted sugar off a toilet seat."
Whether it's Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. fighting to desegregate public restrooms or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. snorting cocaine off of toilet seats, toilets play a key role in the history of the Kennedys.
Real butter is superior to all the vegan butters. I use both in my cooking - depending on what I am making and for who.
Modern vegan butters are not so terrible. the best one IMO - is Miyokos.
Americans should be drinking olive oil.
At 50 years old I discovered that my nutritional upbringing was all a lie. Today I eat 1 stick of butter per day minimum.
It fixed my sleep quality and I have neverending energy.
"Butterbrot" is a word some Europeans use to mean sandwich. Their original "sandwiches" were just a piece of bread with butter on top. For us, bread and butter is usually toast. "That's my bread and butter" also has an idiomatic meaning in English.
Mike Myers, playing his then mother-in-law, made "like buttah" a catch phrase meaning something wonderful. Dude may have had a fetish: it's said he stormed out of a movie shoot because there was no spread on his bagel.
Oh, never mind… lol
butterbot. LOL
@Curious George: "....."And it makes foot taste fantastic. ..."
Hey dude, this is a family blog. ...
I like butter, in its place. But the idea of eating it by itself, and warm no less, makes me nauseous.
Grass fed butter has ~ 50-mg Omega-3s/ 100-g about 0.05%
Cod liver oil has ~20,000-mg O3/100-g about 20%
1T Cod liver oil has 2.8-g of O3 fatty acid (no RDA, Bros DA is 2 to 5-g/day). Plus 1,300-IU of vitamin D (1/4-RDA) plus 4-mg Vitamin A (5x RDA)
My roommate at Texas A&M hiked the Pacific Crest Trail the year before we met. He told of eating a stick of butter by choice, because after several months of high calorie days humping his backpack over mountain after mountain, that was the food in a town store that appealed to him the most. I thought that was crazy, until I found myself on mile 80 or so of the only "century" bike ride I ever made. An 8 ounce bottle of Karo syrup and a large Mountain Dew kept me going all the way to the end of the ride. They say "parts is parts" when talking of Chicken Nuggets, but calories are calories -no matter the flavor - when in a stressful time.
Plugra is better than Kerry, especially on homemade biscuits or pancakes.
My dad told me that in World War II, he and the other pilots in his squadron would eat as much as a whole stick of butter before a big night in the pub, in the belief that it helped moderate the effects of alcohol. Butter was rationed, so it was something of a sacrifice to waste it that way, but he came to enjoy it.
If you want 100% fat, or close to it anyway, go for tallow (cow) or lard (pig), both rendered fat.
Ghee, also known as "drawn butter", is nearly 100% fat, and magically delicious.
It's also easy to make at home by melting regular butter, evaporating the water, and taking off the separated milk solids. These are small quantities of sugars and proteins that caramelize and precipitate out when fried in the ghee. In India they are served to children as a snack after Mom makes the week's supply of ghee.
I had a friend in the mid-60s who ate sticks of butter. We all made fun of him. (Of course, we only had oleomargarine in our house). That friend is still alive, and two of those who made fun of him are dead from cancer.
"Blocks of Kerrygold".
One of my co-workers at the library is a good baker. She once made some amazing chocolate cookies. Asked her about the ingredients. She used *Kerrygold* butter. I mentioned it to my wife who got some on the next grocery run.
It's amazing. Way better than Land O'Lakes which is already better than store brand.
My blueberry pancakes recipe contains butter, olive oil, beef tallow, ghee, and sesame butter. They’re delicious.
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