A Vineyard Moment: Do You Like Butter?
The rain has brought out fields of buttercups all over the Island
Upload your buttercup pictures (or any other spring flower pics you've got) here or email them to mathea.morais@patch.com...Do you like butter?
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Janet Messineo
9:22 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
I saw some buttercups yesterday and I was thinking about how when we were kids we put the flower under our friends chin and said " yes, you like butter!" when it reflected yellow. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?
Mathea Morais
9:57 am on Thursday, May 17, 2012
I have no idea, I'm going to have to do a little background research now. It is one of those things that goes from one generation to the next to the next. And who doesn't love butter?!
Mathea Morais
1:16 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
Okay Janet, all I could find was that no one knows exactly when the whole thing started. There were records of it going back to at least the early 1900s. I did find this interesting article on why you see yellow under your chin (other than liking butter of course!) http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/14/buttercup-glow-revealed-s_n_1147831.html
joy
2:32 pm on Thursday, May 17, 2012
neat