SC - butter

[nancy]

Stephen Bloch wrote:

>From the 13th-century Arabo-Andalusian "Manuscrito Anonimo", a chapter
> entitled "The Customs that Many People Follow in Their Countries":
>         ...  Many people eat butter, and add it to bread, while others
>         cannot bear to smell it, much less to eat it....

I wonder of this is a variant on the "Eaters of the Dead" scenario, with
an Andalusian traveller being exposed to Scots crowdie butter or some of
that loverly Irish bog butter a couple of centuries old...

Adamantius