is for sale at the Marc’s on State Road in Cuyahoga Falls if you’re interested. I found the item a strange thing — why would you want your butter shaped like a lamb and you’re just going to slice it up anyway? — but a quick Internet search taught me that it’s a traditional butter sculpture accompanying the Easter meal for many Russian, Slovenian and Polish Catholics. It’s especially big in Buffalo, NY (?). The eyes are often peppercorns and a white banner with a red cross on a toothpick is placed on its back. You know, when you do things for your whole life you often don’t question them, but when you’re on the outside looking in, a lot of traditions just seem very very odd.
It’s like the lamb cake.You slice that up in a similar fashion.You don’t buy these lamb shaped items to think you are cutting into a real lamb.Your whole take on this was kinda off dear sister.
It’s not the slicing. It’s the concept of making a sculpture out of butter, whatever it is, be it lamb, cat or moose. Lamb and bunny cakes are cute (but inedible if they have coconut frosting — yech!!!!) — it’s just butter I don’t get.
Being the Polish, Hungarian, Ukranian I am very familiar with lamb shape butter and the cakes. In fact I’ll be having some lamb cake on Easter. You would not like it though because it’s carrot cake with vanilla butter cream and yes coconut sprinkled on top.