I am a queer coparenting mama to Dickens Jr. Doodler by day, 911 dispatcher by night. All my favorite shows look better on Tumblr. I am two years and 450K words deep into constructing a fanfic called Ages and I’m never giving up on it. Bering & Wells.
Coming back to say that we had a butter warmer when I was growing up but I didn’t know it had a name – it was just the thing my mom melted butter in when we made popcorn. And we made popcorn a lot – it was an essential part of family t.v. time.
My SIL has pointed out that what my mom used as a butter warmer was actually meant for making Turkish coffee, not melting butter. But now I know there is an actual kitchen tool *specifically* for warming butter and that my mother was ahead of her time.
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<3 I love this so much <3
I have never regretted buying my butter warmer.
omg i didn’t know such a thing existed my life changed today
Coming back to say that we had a butter warmer when I was growing up but I didn’t know it had a name – it was just the thing my mom melted butter in when we made popcorn. And we made popcorn a lot – it was an essential part of family t.v. time.
My SIL has pointed out that what my mom used as a butter warmer was actually meant for making Turkish coffee, not melting butter. But now I know there is an actual kitchen tool *specifically* for warming butter and that my mother was ahead of her time.
Saucy euphemism or not… I need one of these.