do you use a butter dish, and where are you from?

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1. I use one of the type that uses water to form a seal. Originally from the midwest.

2. I do use a butter dish (native Californian, family from Kentucky) but I do not keep it out of the refrigerator except in late Fall/early Winter. It’s too damn hot where I live, and I don’t leave the A/C on when I’m not home because *that’s* too damn expensive!

3. We use one that we keep out on the counter. I’m from North Carolina, fiance is from Texas.

4. I’m from SW Ohio and we do this too

5. Yes, I use a butter dish. I am from the South. If you heard most Americans don’t use butter dishes, you heard wrong. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t.

6. My grandmother and father both used them. In high school I would look at the thrift stores for “pretty” butter dishes to give to my gradmother (she loved them).

   Personally I do not use one. I will put the butter on a small plate or bowl if I need it to get soft for something. Just never thought about getting one I guess.

7. I did it growing up but my wife and mother-in-law think it’s weird and disgusting so there’s no easily spreadable room temperature butter for me.

8. No we just used spreadable butter. Apparently other places call this “tub butter” and it’s seen as ritzy? Was always normal to me.

9. I don’t. I don’t use enough butter in my day to day life to necessitate a butter dish. I currently have a tub of margarine in my fridge that has been there so long I don’t remember when I bought it.

10. I keep half a stick in a butter dish and the rest in the fridge.

11. Growing up in Texas, we used liquid butter squirt type and then country crock tubs. When I moved to PA and then Delaware, I’ve only had actual sticks of butter and for that I’ve used a butter dish (or plate).

12. We do. From Iowa/Minnesota.

13. I’ve always used a butter dish. I’m from Florida. My wife and I make clarified butter and leave it out, but still have the butter dish out. Whoever wakes up first will take the butter out of the fridge.

14. Never had one

15. We have 2 glass crystal covered butter dishes that we keep by the toaster, one at a time. After one stick(or half stick) is gone it gets washed and the clean one is put to use. It’s recommended that you only leave out salted butter; unsalted should be refrigerated

16. Yes, born and live in Western Washington.

17. I don’t use a butter dish and have never known anyone else using one. Ohio.

18. Yes. I’m from California and live in the Midwest. We always had a butter dish when I was growing up.

19. I tried using a butter dish sealed by water and could never get it to work right. Plus we don’t really use butter enough (aside from cooking) to bother. Now I buy a small tub of Kerry Gold spreadable butter about once a month & it stays in the fridge.

20. We do, in Georgia, originally from SC. 

21. From CA, but married to a Texan. My in-laws don’t, but I do. My mom and I have matching ones.

22. Yes. From Georgia.

    I keep my butter out on the counter. It’s a plain Rubbermaid one, with a snap-on lid.

23. Yes, from Northern Illinois originally

24. I have one for partial sticks, but it stays in the fridge not out

25. I don’t, I simply don’t use butter often enough to bother with it. I don’t have any butter in my house unless I’m making Christmas cookies. My parents had a butter bell, they were both morbidly obese.

    (Please note I’m not trying to say people shouldn’t eat butter, its just if I eat butter regularly I’d be 300 pounds because morbid obesity runs in my family on both sides)

26. Yes, also upstate NY.

27. Yes, Wisconsin.

28. I keep a butter dish on the counter 

29. I had never even heard of them until maybe ten years ago. Still never seen one in use. I’ve lived in western NY and Ohio.

30. Yes. Oregon.

    In the 80s and 90s my parents bought Country Crock, but once I discovered real butter there was no going back!

31. Yes I do, California

32. California, and pretty much all of my family (all Californians as well, born/raised) use butter dishes as well. During super hot months they’ll (the family in northern CA*) pop em in the fridge but I keep mine on the counter.

33. Born in NoCal and raised in SoCalCA, family has always used a butter dish. I thought everyone did?