If you think it’s butter but it’s not ...

In Greece, you can make funny mistakes when buying food, like the time that we thought we were buying Ross chocolate milk and it turned out to be Goat’s milk — hey, it looked like chocolate milk to me ... except maybe for the outline of the goat on the label — a big swig of that and out it came ... pronto.

Bitam Classic Lard ... mmm mmm good

Well, we experienced something similar this trip. Marina bought butter in a bright gold foil package (just like at home) and we were having a nice breakfast with eggs, bacon and toast ... I put butter on the toast but said ... you sure you bought salted butter??? ... this stuff tastes like nothing and is just like fat. Marina tried it too and she didn’t like it much either so we put it back in the fridge and thought it was unsalted butter and we’d just need to add salt to it ... and all would be fine.  

A couple of days later we used Google Translate to come up with Salted Butter at the grocery store and we asked for some help. She showed us a package that had salted butter ... then we asked what the gold package was ... it was Lard.

So .. if you think it’s butter but it’s not ... it’s Lard. At least in Greece.