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Pacific -Yes 10 6.37%
Pacific -No 14 8.92%
West -Yes 5 3.18%
West -No 7 4.46%
Midwest -Yes 24 15.29%
Midwest -No 23 14.65%
Central South-Yes 8 5.10%
Central South-No 4 2.55%
Northeast -Yes 30 19.11%
Northeast -No 12 7.64%
Southeast -Yes 10 6.37%
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Old 04-05-2022, 05:48 PM   #1
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Poll: Do You Like Butter?

Where did you live as a kid? And did you, at the time, know of the "butter preference test" whereby the examiner would hold a dandelion or buttercup under the chin of the subject to make the butter preference determination.

Definition: Kid: <11 years of age.

Null hypothesis: Uniformly distributed, as are dandelions.

I split the blue into north and south. Draw the line somewhere above Texas and below Minnesota. And I like this map, BTW, because it makes Minnesota look bigger than Texas, hehehehe!
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We did it in the UK with a buttercup.
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Northeast and buttercup
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Old 04-05-2022, 06:08 PM   #4
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Midwest and do not remember a butter preference test. Never heard of it until now.
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Old 04-05-2022, 06:19 PM   #5
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There is a really vague memory there.
I said yes for the area I lived in back then.
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Northeast / buttercup
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I was raised in the Midwest and remember the "buttercup test". Mom bought margarine but called it "butter". I can take it or leave it- when I'm served good bread I see no need to butter it and I hate it when I buy a pre-made sandwich and find that the bread has butter (more likely margarine) on it.

I do keep it around for baking and for BF to put on his toast when he's here.
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Northeast and never heard of it.
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We did that "test" in Michigan as kids all the time. I had no idea what it was about, but 2 kids gave me the test back when I was less than 10 years old.

I do like butter, but have no idea what the "test" was about. Maybe to stick yellow pollen on chin?
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Sorry to leave out the rest of the world...interesting to know it was likely an import (or an export?)
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Northeast, Buttercup. Never heard of doing it with Dandelions.
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Never heard of such a thing. What is the purpose? And how can you possibly tell if someone likes butter by holding a flower under their chin?
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Northeast and never heard of it.
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Northeast, Buttercup. Never heard of doing it with Dandelions.
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Same here.
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Never heard of such a thing. What is the purpose? And how can you possibly tell if someone likes butter by holding a flower under their chin?
As I recall, if you liked butter you would see a reflection of the yellow from the buttercup on the skin under your chin, meaning that you liked butter. The absence of the reflection meant you didn’t. Just a silly kids’ thing.
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As I recall, if you liked butter you would see a reflection of the yellow from the buttercup on the skin under your chin, meaning that you liked butter. The absence of the reflection meant you didn’t. Just a silly kids’ thing.
Thanks. I've learned something new today. And, for the record, by the time I was 11, I had lived in every one of those regions except the green one.
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Kid's thing for sure. Not a problem though. No pain was ever felt.

Unlike some other kid games -
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Never herd of the test, but I love butter. Warm bread a butter - yum. Pastries and biscuits where they fold in butter for flakiness - even better. Unfortunately, I’m not supposed to eat it. Oh well, everything in moderation.
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Pacific Northwest, we did it with dandelions probably because they were much more common than buttercups.
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