FROZEN BUTTER

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Summary

A comedian explains his unconventional reasoning for needing frozen butter at a wedding, humorously linking it to the timing of dances and speeches. He contrasts this with the common issue of room-temperature butter melting into a "pool of glop" before it can be spread.

Structure

1Introduction of the "frozen butter" concept
2The partner's reaction and misinterpretation
3Explanation of the wedding timeline and butter melting
4The problem with room-temperature butter
5Reiteration of the need for frozen butter due to body heat
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FROZEN BUTTER And when I told her the first thing that I wanted that was important to me, she sang the word autism at me. that started a fight 'cause she goes, what do you want? And I was like, "I need the butter to be frozen." She was like, "what are you talking about?" And I was like, what am I talking about?" Okay, um, I need the butter to be frozen because we're gonna have three dances and three speeches, and then that'll give the butter time to melt. I think we've all been to weddings before where there's dances and speeches and the butter is room temp, and by the time it's time to eat, it's just this pool of glop. And that's not what we do. That's not what we do in this family. So I need frozen butter. Plus there's gonna be 60 bodies in there, and so all that body temperature is gonna be melting the butter even faster. If you don't have it frozen at the top, then when the warm bread lands, people won't put their knife through it and be able to spread it edge to edge, and we won't have a nice lunch. And she goes autism and fucking sang it at me.

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And when I told her the first thing that I wanted that was important to me, she sang the word autism at me. And fucking sang it at me. Okay, um, I need the butter to be frozen because we're gonna have three dances and three speeches, and then that'll give the butter time to melt. I think we've all been to weddings before where there's dances and speeches and the butter is room temp, and by the time it's time to eat, it's just this pool of glop. And that's not what we do. That's not what we do in this family. So I need frozen butter. Plus there's gonna be 60 bodies in there, and so all that body temperature is gonna be melting the butter even faster. If you don't have it frozen at the top, then when the warm bread lands, people won't put their knife through it and be able to spread it edge to edge, and we won't have a nice lunch. And she goes autism. And fucking sang it at me.