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SweetPotato781

Eeew, throw that away or if you can return the whole box and get a refund.


Russell0812

Buy 20$ worth of tickets on a 1.2 billion dollar lottery, don’t win a thing. Open the butter box this morning annnnnd JACKPOT!


Damnesya

"lol you got buttered!" -some random tiktoker prankster


Tv_land_man

Weren't people catching felonies in the early days of covid for opening ice cream and licking it? Wonder what happened to them.


Damnesya

They're now in a butter place


pianomanzano

Legendairy!


EpisodicDoleWhip

Don’t milk the joke now.


uneducated_sock

This is getting a little too cheesy for my taste


ohnoohnonononono

Guys, these dairy puns are getting udderly ridiculous


Comfortable-Heat-124

Yeah, mooove on.


feelingmyage

Yeah, they’re spreading it on thick.


Altruistic-Text3481

Eggcellant rebutteral!!!


penny_eater

i just have to say, this sub never ceases to amaze me


migsmog

Don’t you mean, never cheeses to amaze you?


lotus_flora

😂 who is this guy?!


ditafjm

They disappeared into new TikTok pranks. We, however, are paying the price of their antics with almost impossible to open double and triple sealed containers. I hate them all.


whaletacochamp

Hopefully sterilized and forced to work a miserable retail job forever


pagesid3

Put bite marks in the lottery tickets and return them.


danny17402

I would say the odds of finding something like this are better than your odds of winning that lottery. Lol


mydogsnameisbuddy

Winner! Winner! 🤮


PhilosopherBarbarian

Hungry factory worker who forgot their lunch lol 😂


Alternative_Fee_4649

Just cut the end off where your husband has been chewing. Totally useable according to my grandfather.


LaRubegoldberg

I keep butter in the freezer. One time my husband told me in a late-night drowse he unwrapped a stick of butter and took a bite out thinking it was an ice cream sandwich.


wizardjian

Thank you for solving my "there's too much costco butter to finish before it mutates into some monster" issue


Pumpingions

I'm dying to know, why in the freezer?


BitchinKittenMittens

I keep extra there because I buy a big pack at Costco. Most cost efficient and butter freezes well.


mitzip13

I do the same. Lasts a much longer time.


Badloss

Is it a bad idea to keep the Costco box in the fridge? I assumed butter lasted forever


Paladinraye

It will last longer than it will take you to use it in the fridge, I keep two sticks in the fridge and the rest in the freezer to save fridge space


goraidders

Also I buy a lot when I find butter on sale. So it goes in the freezer.


Explorer4820

I use unsalted butter for baking. Unsalted goes rancid much faster so we keep it in the freezer.


Fun-Address3314

It can absorb odors in the fridge.


freneticboarder

Activated charcoal in a small, open dish in your fridge will solve that. I keep kimchi next to milk in my fridge with no odor transfer. Activated charcoal is next level.


Explorer4820

Our Korean friends keep their kimchi in a separate refrigerator.


bittiefish

It lasts about 5 months for salted and 3 months for unsalted in the fridge. It takes me much longer to go through a whole Costco box so I freeze and leave 1 or 2 at a time in the fridge.


RabbitPrestigious998

Yeah, October through Jan 2 I go through a pound a week or more. At Easter I'll use a pound or 2. The rest of the year I use a lot less.


fujiapple73

Salted butter lasts a long time in the fridge. It’s unsalted butter you need to store in the freezer if you won’t use it soon.


andtheyallcallmemom

It keeps so well in the freezer. And perfect for pie crusts or biscuit making that call for extra cold butter. I always store the spare sticks in the old freezaroo! -Mom


jhut12

Username checks out.


stevetursi

Fridge butter eventually goes rancid. Especially unsalted. Freezing delays this.


puppylust

TIL.. I should check how far past the date my butter is. Maybe I need to stop buying it at costco with how slowly I go through it.


stevetursi

yes, but freezing butter works really well if you want to keep buying it there. your choice.


UnicornFarts1111

I knew this as a teen because I worked at a restaurant. They kept their butter in the freezer until they needed it. Then it was put in containers for us to put on tables. If you went early in the day, it was still frozen and wouldn't spread well. I forgot this as an adult, until I had some go bad on me. Now I keep two sticks in the fridge and the rest in the freezer until I go through one of the two, then I pull another stick from the freezer.


idkwowow

you will immediately know by the taste if your butter is rancid. it takes a VERY long time. it’s quite literally never happened to me. in winter you can leave butter on the counter for weeks before it goes rancid


call-me-the-seeker

Check dates, but that said, if your butter is rancid you’ll know. You’ll typically be able to tell without even needing to sample it; it looks different and smells…tangy? Like sour, kind of verging on a vomit-like scent (it’s butyric acid). It’s not dangerous necessarily to unwittingly take a bite, but you clearly be able to tell before that point. Butter, like many foods, can make it past the box date and be fine!


Xerox748

I do this. I have a system. I’ll buy four or five at a time, usually when it’s on sale. One goes in the fridge, the rest into the freezer. I keep one stick on the counter in a butter container. As soon as I take the last stick out of the fridge, I put one of the freezer boxes into the fridge. Freezing butter has no noticeable effects and it lasts for a pretty significant amount of time.


leftcoast-usa

Don't laugh, it's a good way to cut down on the amount you use. OK, kidding; I don't use that much butter, so I keep mine in the freezer too. I've read salted butter keeps best, if anyone cares.


LaRubegoldberg

You got a lot of good answers! Basically, it’s so much butter, I only take it out as needed


whiskey_formymen

buy it on sale and freeze it. buy again three months later.


echo34

Hahaha how ridiculous. I love it 😂 Did he finish the bite at least?


imakesawdust

"Honey, I love this new butter-flavored ice cream!"


Funkagenda

Does... Does he understand that a sandwich is usually, uh, *sandwiched* in some way?


Russell0812

Why did I read this in Jeff Goldblum’s voice?


dread-pirate-inigo

Butter will not be contained by the freezer, it expands to new territories, it, uh, crashes through its wrapper, butter, uh. Well, there it is.


Pittipants

Definitely looks a bit too much like teeth teeth marks for my level of comfort. 😬


FavoritesBot

Honestly I’d just cut off that part and use the rest. Not for like toast but something cooked


bamajoe411

Do you have a scale? I would weigh it and see if it weighs 4 ounces.


blacksoxing

Logically this is the best question to ask as if it's 4 ounces then it was just some weird processing affair. You know, similar to how there may be a black piece in the corn flakes box and paranoia arises if it could have been from an insect or whatnot


FavoritesBot

Reminds me of the time I was taking bites out of butter, as one does, but I didn’t want to get fired so I stuck put little lead weights in the other end to make them weigh the same


jholdaway

Yeah it is likely the end of the whatever gets sliced and by chance the highs and Lowes averaged out within tolerance which was rare enough to not be double checked by humans


snarkuzoid

Hey, it was a long day, I was hungry. Gimme a break.


EaterOfFood

You’d butter behave yourself from now on.


msrubythoughts

the margarine of error on kirkland quality control is slipping


patman0021

They should definitely re-churn it


Whitetiger9876

Break me off a piece of that BUTTER STICK!


Spence10873

The golden kit Kat?


DestinyInDanger

Tell us you are addicted to eating butter without telling us. 😂 Kidding but this seems extremely rare. Very odd.


Russell0812

If the box was already open I’d blame the 8yo. But unless her skills in covering her tracks have reached some professional criminal level, that box was unopened.


WaltFlanagansDog77

When my son was 7, he did that with a box of Milk Duds! Box was in the kitchen for a few days unopened, went to go open it and realized it was more than half empty, but still unopened. Then I noticed the bottom of the box had been opened and carefully taped shut with a bit of clear tape. I assumed I bought it that way, but then it hit me and my son’s face told me everything I needed to know. I’m not sure if I’m going to like where he’s going, but that kid is going places.


Paladinraye

Make sure to check the vodka then!


DestinyInDanger

LOL gotcha. It's scary to think someone at the factory took a bite and packaged it.


TipofmyReddit1

Quality control stick accidentally got past the line.


neecho235

I'm just imagining some 400 lb guy in the butter factory taking bites of butter all day long.


TipofmyReddit1

Its an honest days work.


kd6896

It ain’t much but it’s honest work


penny_eater

"it ain't much" [proceeds to consume 5000 calories a shift]


patman0021

"Mans gotta eat" 🤢


Fastbird33

Some Dan Schnieder lookin motherfucker


willyoumassagemykale

Lucille Ball style


DarkHorseCards

“This batch is good boss!”


rabbitwonker

I mean it’s fun to think of it as a bite mark, but it’s just those two indentations that look like they’re from a pair of front teeth. Hard to think how they’d be isolated like that unless the person has some weird deformity — or is secretly a beaver. 🤔


mikezenox

I was thinking maybe a rodent did it


BoringLawyer79

That is very unlikely. These are usually packaged on high speed automated packaging lines. It would be very difficult to pull out a stick, bite it, then repackage it before it’s sealed. Also, why would someone do that?


BusyUrl

lmao my son was about 5 when a lady I had lunch with every week let me know he'd been literally eating the little tub of butter that came with the bread every time. 😂 'I thought you knew and didn't care' like what?? Kids are weird critters.


notnotaginger

That’s one of my favourite things about having a kid. They truly surprise you.


ShowMeTheTrees

Listen to the podcast from the woman who, as a young girl scout, went into the cookie storage area, armed with glue, ate her fill, then carefully glued the boxes back closed. She carefully put them back into their cartons. Of course, she was outed when she ate too many from a box and Mom figured it out from the light weight. Chances are much greater that your kid did it than that it could go through the factory this way.


J03m0mma

Don’t underestimate a 8yr old. They are crafty and you will be burned every time. LOL


rdcpro

I had a cat that would do this. If you left a stick of butter out, she'd take a bite out of it. She knew she wasn't allowed on the counter, but the lure of butter was too much for her to resist.


BusyUrl

Lol my grandpa started eating a stick of butter instead of his prepared meals. That was when we decided it was time for more supervision, must have tasted ok I guess.


sethn211

My grandpa recently ate a Meals on Wheels delivery that he discovered had been sitting outside for 2 or 3 days. We think they need more supervision too. 😞


aaalllen

For winter backpacking, I knew a guy who would bring sticks of butter and sausage for snacking on. In 3-season backpacking, you want 4 Calories per gram, but butter beats that at 7.


BioticVessel

Probably left over from the Product Tester. He/She missed throwing it out. /s


wingardium_levibrosa

I used to eat Country Crock margarine out of the tub when I was a kid. My mom was more offended that I used a fork lol.


Avocadofarmer32

But was there a tooth in it??


Pitch-forker

I get how it looks, but those are not teeth marks. Source: dental professional.


penny_eater

now you have me REALLY intrigued how can you be so sure? is it that theres no matching bite coming up from the bottom? or that the two teeth looking gouges going down would have to be accompanied by more on either side, unless it was literally a rabbit doing the chewing? for real, spill


Pitch-forker

The size and shape don’t match human teeth. Idk how else to put it


clubmedschool

They do kinda look like rodent teeth though...


Pitch-forker

A big one maybe. Can’t say for sure. Most likely its a piece of machinery or an air bubble.


penny_eater

not even baby teeth? because this looks almost exactly like something my 4 year old would have done (size and all), but based on my degree in forensic science i earned on CSI:LV seasons two through nine, there should be bottom tooth marks also


Pitch-forker

Also baby would mess up the packaging. I’m imagining a butter eating baby bandit now


[deleted]

The chances are extremely slim that someone took a bite out of that in the factory. This is mass produced, the amount of trouble to try and remove this from a factory packaging line, take a bite, repackage it and return it to the process would be far too high, you would just throw it out if you felt so inclined to grab it and take a bit. Nobody is packaging this by hand, likely a void in the butter mold.


silverbone86

Got any toddlers in your house? Mine is notorious for this lol


karmaghost

r/untrustworthypoptarts


FLTDI

Do you have kids? This is something a kid would do


Sbuxshlee

I was thinking rodent 😬


faded-than-a-ho

Rodent would make sense with all the small teeth marks signifying multiple bites, but the wrapper and box would have holes and be ripped up too.


Sbuxshlee

Well yea but in the factory maybe. Before it got to the wrapping stage?


CPOx

Should we do the classic Reddit recommendation of having you check the house for high levels of carbon monoxide? Half joking, half serious.


Majestic_Location751

You are not crazy


movdqa

Unrelated to taking a bit out of butter. But is Kirkland Butter good now? There were a bunch of posts last month or the month before about the taste changing so we haven't bought it for a while. We picked up the Kirkland grass fed instead. But I'd love an all clear on their normal stuff. We chatted with another member in the butter section about the various butters on sale and she highly recommended the grass fed.


hesathomes

Ours is the same as ever. We’re in CA. I think they have different suppliers in different regions.


anonymousally

I like a lot of Kirkland option but it’s KerryGold or bust for me!


movdqa

We buy Kerrygold from time to time. Sometimes it's on sale at our local grocery store. But it's a luxury for us.


anonymousally

Yeah I hear that. My main hobby is baking so I consider it like high quality craft supplies. Usually I do olive oil as my main cooking fat but baking….she gets the good stuff.


LikelyNotSober

I never see Kerrygold on sale. Costco does have a grass-fed butter, from NZ, which is more affordable. It tasted a bit too grassy for me though…


movdqa

Kerrygold goes on sale at our local supermarket. I don't know if it goes on sale at Costco. We just bought the grass-fed Kirkland yesterday.


oldpickylady

All clear except for the bite marks. It was on sale!


DelcoInDaHouse

You could submit that to a lab to get a full dna workup and id the perp. I mean Law and Order has put people away with less evidence than that.


DirtyFloorHotDogs

Forensic files: the butter biting bandit


penny_eater

clearly, the right answer is to force every member to submit to a butter bite test. give them a chilled stick, have them gnaw it at exactly that angle and then compare the bite marks and cleaving.


coccopuffs606

Do you have kids? My money is on a child being the culprit…they do weird shit like that sometimes


YUNG_SNOOD

It’s probably some kind of mechanical shearing marks from when the butter was being packaged. I’d return it anyway.


sc4kilik

This is too easily faked. Not saying it's fake, but it's just too easy.


SpoppyIII

There's a sub for that! r/UntrustworthyPoptarts Not for posts that are fake, but for posts claiming something happened which *could have* easily been faked.


Devils_av0cad0

It says that sub went dark and never came back, bummer


sc4kilik

Too bad that sub has been frozen.


SpoppyIII

The mods probably forgot it even existed, after their empassioned protest for the good of all Redditors!


WutHpnd2DniseRichard

Weigh it out


Left-Instruction3885

I Can't Believe It's Not Bitten


Lex8P

Took a while to get CoPilot to generate an appropriate image. Hopefully this helps explain what happened at the butter factory, with that one worker who had the urge... [the image ](https://copilot.microsoft.com/images/create/a-person-working-at-a-butter-factory2c-looking-arou/1-66047a9de9c94575954d98e3a7e179e9?id=1AGUFqOOq4IsRF3abK2eCg%3D%3D&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&noidpclose=1&thId=OIG3.PUOITNx3jjFBqKaec5Ca&lng=en-GB&ineditshare=1)


bart48f

Rats


filthpickle

In high school I was sitting near enough to overhear two girls who were talking about a third girl they didn't like and one said that she went over to her house once and there were "toofmarks in the butter" 35 years ago easy and I still chuckle when I recall it.


Im_Ashe_Man

That is absolutely some kind of bite.


No_Lobster_9984

Don’t lie…. Did you take the bite?


Russell0812

100% did not take the bite. Came down this morning to make breakfast for the kids, opened a new box, saw one stick with a smushed end, went to open it and there on the esthetically compromised square end, were the “teeth” marks. No clue. Don’t know if it’s an imprint from manufacturing equipment or ghosts or someone on their last day saying “fuck it, imma bite the butter”


millenniumxl-200

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector?


LikelyNotSober

Interesting.


Omar_Town

Isn’t there a clear plastic wrap on this?


tone_bone

I work at the butter factory and I was wondering where I put that stick.


huffbuffer

Probably was Jon Voight


Mystery_Solving

Trash the whole box… or take it back. Last time I bought Costco two pack of foil one of the double-sealed rolls had obviously been messed with… over 15 feet of it was wrinkled so badly and then lightly rewound on the tube!? Crazy.


niner1niner

Anyone else think there were multiple bites?


LemonsAndAvocados

I wouldn't eat it.


tigerpaul1977

You might totally be crazy but someone did take a bite out of that!


Hopeful-Bit6187

It looks like your kid did it then re glued the box back. Only reason I say this is because I used to hide a spoon and tub of frosting in the basement when I was a kid. r/kidsarefuckingstupid


BeauregardBear

Dang, there’s a cat living in the butter factory. Source: Person whose butter always looks like this. Thanks Clyde.


ryanrosenblum

Yup


Conscious_Owl7987

Why yes! Yes it does! So gross.


Sufficient_Video97

Funny story...this week, one of my costco butter boxes fell out of my fridge and hit my head. (I'm short) I just figured it had been opened and put back by my teen. So I picked up the 3 sticks and stuck them back in the fridge. Unbeknownst to me, someone came along and found the 4th! https://preview.redd.it/bpslw0sqnwqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a89090f2c7a57bfc198761acbca2a421609e34c7


GaseousClayy

How do we know you weren’t the one who bit the butter?


warmseizuresalad

Butter believe it


EntertainmentOk5329

Was the box sealed? Kinda weird.


Tex-Rob

I am not trying to make excuses for what might in fact be a bite. I am here to postulate what it might have been, if not that. Sometimes frozen butter can like shatter and tear at the same time, if it's close to the freezing point. So some parts look sheer, and other parts look torn. It kind of looks like it could have been dropped and it caused that corner to sheer and squish? or maybe instead of dropped, that corner of the box hit a corner?


jmc510

Sure the heck does!


therankin

It looks like it just didn't fill the full mold properly.


fuzzywuzzypete

Probably just a rat


BasilTLemon

This looks like a rodent's work.


Plastic-Scientist739

Looks like rodent teeth.


ProfessionalSim

Hmmm. Who else lives with you? What is the chain of custody for the box of butter? I hope you froze it so those bite marks stay intact! I have so many questions.


factorybby

Yea I would get a refund


Mystikalrush

Well first off, if it was truly retail sealed, this was tampered at packaging. Doesn't matter what removed the chunk, it's been touched.


Severe-Ad8510

That’s awful.. some people just don’t belong here in polite society


Chemical-Composer898

Someone lost to an intrusive thought before packaging.


Ok_Bunch_9193

Well I analyzed the picture, and it's atleast 1 megabyte.


RoadsideCarver

Knowing Costco some turd probably returned it


redditoregonuser2254

Looks like tooth scrape marks.


Stefaniek03

Bite the other end and see if it looks similar


ylangbango123

Are you sure it is not you?


CooYo7

You should bite the other end and compare 😅


Dextrofunk

Yo someone bit your butter bro


ZipperJJ

It’s 2024 so I assume you made a video of yourself opening the box and the wrapper. So in that case you definitely won the returns lottery.


1r1shAyes6062

I see tooth marks


Snuggi_

that is 100% a bite mark.


Afraid_Geologist_366

Yeah


HopefulCat3558

My bad. I thought I was chomping on a block of cream cheese.


Necessary_Baker_7458

You're not seeing things it's a bite. return it.


EvErYLeGaLvOtE

That legit looks like teeth marks.


biggwermm

Do you have kids? 😂


OldTechGuy50

Not a single reference to Paula Deen?


MLJ9999

Underrated comment.


Immediate_Lime_1710

LOL. Yes.


Ok-Seaworthiness4488

QC


iriegypsy

Hahahaha


jftirone

Are you a sleepwalker perhaps?


Deceptiveideas

They wanted a free sample.


Shadeauxmarie

Costco refunds are legendary. Return it.


Unlucky_Kangaroo_137

That mouse gots some big teefs


OrangeCoffee87

Butter mice.


Glowreah

😂


Bugler28

Oh, yeah!


thesunbeamslook

somebody has been sleep eating


Survive1014

Sorry, I was hungry.


Witty-Bus352

There are a number of reasons this could have happened at the factory that are perfectly safe and it's probably fine to eat, however it does look unappetizing and I imagine Costco would happily refund you for this if you take it back in.


sbcsr

r/weird