Vintage Butter

Ireland is agog over the discovery of a cask of vintage butter. Estimated to be some 3,000 years old, the barrel of butter was dug out of a peat bog.

An oak barrel full of butter, estimated to be roughly 3,000 years, old has been found in a peat bog in County Kildare in Ireland.

The amazing discovery was found by peat workers John Fitzharris and Martin Lane who noticed a white streak in the bog.

When they knelt down to examine it, they saw it was a barrel, or trunk, full of butter. It was largely in tact and had a lid.

How, exactly, they determined that the substance was butter is not clear:

The butter has changed to white and is now adipocere, which is essentially animal fat, the same sort of substance that is found on well-preserved bodies of people or animals found in the bog.

One hopes toast was not involved in the identification.

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are not at all sure why this is such a big deal. Having eaten at American school cafeterias over the years, we can attest that many of the dairy products served there were probably older.