Do you roll your corn on the cob directly onto the stick of butter?

[Anonymous]

I don’t like corn. My DH thinks I am unAmerican 😊

[Anonymous]

We just cut the end off a stick of butter, peel it a little at the top but leave the wrapper on so you can hold it, and use that for the corn. It would have never, ever occurred to me to roll my corn on top of a full stick of butter like OP is describing.

[Anonymous]

No. I didn't know people did that. Just like you don't dip your toast in the jam pot.

[Anonymous]

I use a knife. Had friends over a couple of weeks ago tho and they rolled their corn right in our stick of butter, I thought it was weird but I let it go because we like them.

[Anonymous]

We don't put anything on our corn, we just eat as is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the replies. Sounds like most don't do it and, if you do, you wouldn't do this outside of your home.

If a close family member (MIL or FIL) did this in your home, would you reprimand them for it, or just decide that the loss of a $1 stick of butter a few times a year is something you are OK with (or maybe you'd just never serve corn again LOL)?

Not exactly the same situation, but the reason we have individual ramekins of jam at breakfast when my in-laws visit is that MIL’s long time BF always got butter and toast crumbs in the jam. Now everyone gets their own little container and he thinks we are fancy. You can do this with butter for his corn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would never do this at someone else's house!

At home, we do it. It destroys a stick of butter and is super messy, but we do it.

Same. I know we do it at home but it seems really rude to do it at someone else's house unless they tell you to and they're set up to deal with the mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the replies. Sounds like most don't do it and, if you do, you wouldn't do this outside of your home.

If a close family member (MIL or FIL) did this in your home, would you reprimand them for it, or just decide that the loss of a $1 stick of butter a few times a year is something you are OK with (or maybe you'd just never serve corn again LOL)?

OMG. You would call out an elder like that? That's even more rude than the original act. Wowza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do it at our house. When it’s sweet corn season we have the partially smooshed “corn butter” in the fridge between used. Definitely wouldn’t do it at anyone else’s house unless they explicitly told me to.

This is the right answer.

[Anonymous]

I don’t use butter. Unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the replies. Sounds like most don't do it and, if you do, you wouldn't do this outside of your home.

If a close family member (MIL or FIL) did this in your home, would you reprimand them for it, or just decide that the loss of a $1 stick of butter a few times a year is something you are OK with (or maybe you'd just never serve corn again LOL)?

OMG. You would call out an elder like that? That's even more rude than the original act. Wowza.

I would cut my elders a little slack (such as not alienating them over wasting a stick of butter), but I would make sure my kids followed our rules, not their grandparents'. If reminding them that we don't do that bothers the ILs, that's on them.

And yes, I would probably not serve corn on the cob again.

[Anonymous]

I melt my butter in the microwave (only takes about 30 seconds to melt, maybe less) , pour it over the corn, and add old bay mmmmm good!!!

[Anonymous]

Growing up, yes. We had a dedicated "corn butter" stick for the summer that we rolled corn in. It's so easy and convenient!

My husband's not a fan though, so in our house, we butter the more, ahem, polite way.

At someone else's house, I would do what they do. If someone has a corn butter stick, great! If not, I'd just butter with my knife. It's FOR SURE rude to just plop your corn into a pristine stick of butter as a guest!! That's crazy.

[Anonymous]

Tupperware had a yellow gadget for this called a "butter hugger" that my parents used when I was a kid. Not sure what happened to it. They still have these cute bamboo corn-shaped plates for serving cotb that make it easy to put butter in the plate and roll the cob in it. At my own home or away I would not roll the cob in a stick of butter - I would cut a portion and use a knife to apply, or put it on my plate and roll it.

[Anonymous]

In my house, everyone has their own butter stick. We happily roll away.