Question about Irish butter

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I have not been a fan of Irish butter.

I've tried it in the past and not been impressed. So these days I just buy regular American butter, always the unsalted version, and never have problems with it.

A while back there was a discussion here about the need to freeze butter or it would go bad. No, that's not necessary. Trust me. I leave my butter on the kitchen counter all the time, and I have NEVER experienced a problem. On very warm days it gets a bit molten, but in my experience butter never goes bad. Not even the unsalted version, which is all I've ever bought in the past ten years.

Sometimes a quarter pound stick lasts a month or more. Sometimes less than a week. I suppose if you take a lot more than a month to go through a stick of butter you should refrigerate it, but if that's the case, I want to have a serious discussion with you about how you live your life. And you still don't need to freeze it. Nor do you need to freeze the other sticks in the pound of butter you bought at the time.

This is not intended to discourage anyone who thinks Irish butter is better. If that's what you think, then go for it. You aren't wrong. Nor am I.