It's just a butter, but: On butter

It's just butter, liquid solid gold that comes out of cow's milk, gives us life and nutrition. Sorry vegans.

Last evening I had butter and bread for snacks, quite literally pieces of untoasted bread dipped in melted butter. I wasn't hungry, the reason for the snack was to not let myself go all-in at the grocery store, a hungry shopper is a careless shopper. When you go buy in a full stomach, your brain is not in a scarcity mode so you can take your time to choose things you may or may not want need in the long term instead of the immediate desire to fulfill the need to eat.

Oooof. Just bread dipped in warm liquid salty butter. So goddamn good. It should have been embarrassing, shameful even but it was not. It was bright and joyous, I felt like I was a a appreciating whatever had been given to me by the gods. I felt thankful towards the cows, and thought about a scene from the Shiva series. When he's high out of his mind and so very hungry, all he can get his hands on is butter and bread, and he consumes that. That's when he appreciates fully the existence of the cow, kamdhenu, and as the lord of Nandi. He realizes that the simple pleasures of life are in simple things and not those that need deep understanding of philosophy or great intellect. He becomes happy and decides to...do what, perhaps assist his folks with something they'd been asking for but he'd been rejecting, or perhaps even to go back to his regular bode. Or something to that effect. Surely shiva must also have enjoyed butter and ghee, just dipping bread in them with nothing else going on. After all he is a projection of our human form and image, so why should he be any different?

It was glorious, that bit of warm butter that I dipped the soggy bread into. No wonder most desserts are basically some form of butter or another, combined with a tonne of flour and sugar. Because butter is life.

In 'the books' they talk about rivers of ghee, milk and honey in the heavens, clearly they considered it so important.

I've been accused of going overboard with the butter, my fried toasts are swimming in a vat of butter before they absorb all of the yummy liquid, the eggs that I fry are poached in butter instead of 'frying'. In dal and vegetable when I get the chance, the amount of butter I'm comfortable putting is 'slightly more than absolutely the most amount of butter you think you should eat'. Because that butter I can see, understand and internalize. The invisible butters and other fats and sugars in other foods, we cannot see and therefore cannot prepare our body for.

And of course, when I'm around everything tastes better. Because I put in more butter than anyone else dares, more spices, more salt. I can go overboard with the salt sometimes, the fries from yesterday were a bit of a failure...too salty, and unevenly salted. Why not make that the topic of my next post, since I'm in desperate need of coming with bs topics to write on.