There’s no better butter than bog butter

County Meath, Ireland

Ok, bog butter sounds kinda gross, but it’s actually no different from our butter. Made from dairy or tallow/animal fats, it was buried the bog to preserve it as peat bogs have low temperatures, low oxygen and other preservative properties.

Usually they were buried in a case, but this was just placed in the bog as is, perhaps as an offering. Those that discovered it, say it smells and feels like butter, but might taste a little more cheesy. In any case, I don’t think this 2,000 year old, 22 lb hunk of butter is ever going to get tasted. Would you?

Read all about it HERE!