Never Fall Out with your Bread and Butter
Blog Entry: Wednesday 19 May 2010
Butter is as much part of our vocabulary as our baking and has been used in many a proverb to dispense some much-needed wisdom. We have gathered together five of our favourites from around the world to remind us how to live well – with butter!
From the Dutch: “Eat butter first, and eat it last, and live till a hundred years be past.”
From Poland: “Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter and in wine.”
From the Danish: “Butter spoils no meat, and moderation injures no cause.”
From Russia: “One can’t spoil porridge with butter.”
From Morocco: “Evening promises are like butter: morning comes, and it’s all melted.”
Our final choice is the most popular, with most countries from around the world having some variant on the phrase. “Fine words butter no parsnips“ basically means that actions speak louder than words, which we think is very good advice!
Do you have a favourite butter proverb? Please share it with us in the comment section below.
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