Do you like butter?! How did we all know to do this and other silly stuff?

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DebiMoonfae@reddit

I have no clue what you are talking about and this image makes it even more confusing

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It's supposed to be done with buttercups. You hold a buttercup under someone's chin and ask if they like butter, the reflection of the yellow from the buttercup on their skin indicated if they were telling the truth. Silly childhood games.

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Far_Comfortable1192@reddit

Iowa, USA 80s & 90s, we used dandelions for "do you like butter" and "mama had a baby and its head popped off"

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silentknight111@reddit

I've never heard of this in my life until today.

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I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit

Huh... Are you from the US? Maybe it's a regional thing. I grew up in upstate NY and everyone knew this, my parents, aunts and uncles did this to all the kids. At school, all the kids seemed to know what it meant or caught on quickly. And now I do it to my kids, nieces, and nephews.

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Bakingsquared80@reddit

I grew up downstate and have never heard of this

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One-Earth9294@reddit

https://i.redd.it/6xjpilw8xjpe1.gif I honestly don't know if you guys are doing a bit here Either way I'm dying laughing.

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Bakingsquared80@reddit

May I see it?

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silentknight111@reddit

I grew up in Ohio, lived there until I was twenty.

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mattreyu@reddit

There's 39 native species of buttercup in Ohio

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GimmeFalcor@reddit

That’s awesome. Ohio spring is beautiful.

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silentknight111@reddit

I've seen buttercup, just never heard of the game mentioned here.

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LegallyRegarded@reddit

from ny and im clueless still

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BlacksmithThink9494@reddit

CA and never heard this.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Grew up in Texas and we used to do this. You ask them to smell the flower and you smoosh it into their nose and leave a bunch of pollen on them.

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mrwynd@reddit

I grew up in the south west and never heard of this (Arizona, Nevada, Colorado).

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Dark-Empath-@reddit

Grew up in the UK and everyone knew this in my area.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

I'm an American, grew up a military brat, never spent any time in upstate NY or New England, but I knew about this too. I'm an older Xennial though.

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I_AM_DEATH-INCARNATE@reddit

There goes that theory. Seems like it's just one of those things, hit or miss, that some people experience and others don't There was a thread about funny/violent children's songs and I didn't know half of them. But there was always a kid who knew everything. Every joke, every song, every game. Strange how it all works

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msbizzaro@reddit

I grew up in southern Ontario, Canada- we all did this as kids

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msbizzaro@reddit

I grew up in southern Ontario, Canada- we all did this as kids

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Christie318@reddit

Same.

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werdnurd@reddit

I heard of it but never understood it. I still don’t really get it. Wouldn’t it be the same for everyone?

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Combatical@reddit

From my shoddy memory it was actually kind of a prank. You asked the question put the butter cup up to someone and they went to smell it and you'd push it on their nose. Leaving behind yellowish pollen? Kinda like the pool stick chalk trick.

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werdnurd@reddit

Oof, the things we did to amuse ourselves because we weren’t allowed back inside.

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Combatical@reddit

Right? I remember hoarding all of my halloween candy and hiding it in a fort I built in the woods with some other neighborhood kids.. The ants man.. So many ants..

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silentknight111@reddit

seems like it would just depend on the lighting and how it was reflecting at the time

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

Same. Never heard of this either.

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TransportationOk657@reddit

I'm right there with ya. I have never heard this expression before. I was a little creeped out when I first read OP's comment and then saw the picture. Thankfully, there was someone to provide an explanation.

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melanthius@reddit

They also weirdly assume I know what a buttercup flower looks like.

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draculasbloodtype@reddit

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus#/media/File:Ranunculus\_macro.jpg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus#/media/File:Ranunculus_macro.jpg)

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Liathano_Fire@reddit

I only knew to smear dandelions on my skin. I had also never heard of this buttercup thing.

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DebiMoonfae@reddit

And kids lied about liking butter?

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Seldarin@reddit

Yeah, it'd make a little more sense if the picture was a buttercup instead of a dandelion. Although what we called buttercups were actually buttercup sorrel, so I guess maybe dandelions are called buttercups somewhere.

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11229988B@reddit

Correct answer

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itadapeezas@reddit

LOL!!! If you don't know the context then the image is just so bizarre!😂😭 When we were little, we would take those little yellow flower things and hold them under our chin and if it turned yellow under your chin that meant that you liked butter lmao.

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DebiMoonfae@reddit

Lol, how odd

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itadapeezas@reddit

Super lol.

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WideTechLoad@reddit

Yeah. Is this some AI bullshit? I am very confused.

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mattreyu@reddit

Wasn't the point that you used buttercups and not dandelions?

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redditprofile99@reddit

Yes, absolutely. Lol

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hahahahahahahaFUCK@reddit

I don’t think I’ve seen a buttercup in about 15 years. :(

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themrsfreeze@reddit (OP)

In SoCal we had dandelions.

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mattreyu@reddit

California has their own buttercup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus_californicus#:~:text=Ranunculus%20californicus%2C%20commonly%20known%20as,habitats%2C%20including%20chaparral%20and%20woodlands.

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pickoneforme@reddit

no, a buttercup is when you fart in your hand and make your friend smell it.

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Thatonegirl_79@reddit

Nah, that's a cup of cheese

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Powerful_Wombat@reddit

Maybe regional but we did it with dandelions in the PNW, probably because theyre eveeeeerrryyywhere around here

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DullNeedleworker3447@reddit

Same for me, also in the PNW. Dandelions galore.

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peggysue_82@reddit

We did it with both, my backyard growing up was flush with dandelions and buttercups.

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the_orange_baron@reddit

Agreed, this test will reveal whether the girl likes foppish big cats

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Ambitious_Toe_4357@reddit

Foppish feline fellows

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Johnykbr@reddit

I had an award i would give it. This joke just keeps getting better.

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Katerade44@reddit

This is how I will forever refer to lions. Thank you!

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shetalkstoangels_@reddit

Yes

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

Parents

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No-Muffin-874@reddit

Did anyone else tell a story about making a wish and putting another type of plant(I don't know the name)in your "friends" mouth sideways, telling them to close their eyes, and pulling it out real fast, leaving them with tiny black seeds in their mouth? Awesome.

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Sun_Sprout@reddit

No that sounds like a good one though!

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FreezingRobot@reddit

Mama had a baby and it's head popped off!

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RalphWaldoEmers0n@reddit

Brings me back to walking to school Reminds me of “you can pick your nose and you can pick your friends but you can’t pick your friends nose” lol

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DazzlingBullfrog9@reddit

But you can't wipe your friends under the couch

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_its_a_SWEATER_@reddit

Atmosphere?

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

https://i.redd.it/487wsirnthpe1.gif

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Fedantry_Petish@reddit

*its = possessive pronoun it’s = contraction

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BeeswaxingPoetic@reddit

Yep. This immediately followed the dandelion smearing. And if the stems were long enough, we made a bracelet by sticking one end inside the other hollow end.

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deemarieforlife@reddit

Long lost memory right there, haha

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denim_skirt@reddit

Child lore! I think it's fascinating! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore

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Big_Monday4523@reddit

Yay! I can avoid working on my accreditation. Because I've found my next topic to hyperfocus on instead for the next few days or weeks.

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m0h3k4n@reddit

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they-walk-among-us@reddit

Grew up in NZ and did this as a kid.

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Donnie_Barbados@reddit

One of the cool things about having a kid is when they start school and you find out all this stuff is still going. Just being handed down from older kids to younger kids since all the way back when.

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mybadalternate@reddit

We did the same here in Canada. Wild how something so specific and odd like existed across the world before the internet.

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Corn_Beefies@reddit

This must have been more of an Albany expression.

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introextra-@reddit

Not from the US so no clue what you’re talking about, but why does it involve Spock’s daughter?

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No_Proposal7812@reddit

We didn't have buttercups in South Florida so we used dandelions. If there were buttercups in S Florida they weren't in our yard. I went to visit cousins in NY as a kid and they had buttercups. They did the same thing That kid tribal knowledge travelled even without internet

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Polybrene@reddit

You're supposed to use buttercups though. B For 2 reasons. 1: the pun. 2: buttercups are reflective.

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Acceptable-Double-98@reddit

Its amazing how I thought we were only the ones who did this lol

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APOC_V@reddit

Damn. That’s something I haven’t thought about in ages.

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APOC_V@reddit

Damn. That’s something I haven’t thought about in ages.

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APOC_V@reddit

Damn. That’s something I haven’t thought about in ages.

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APOC_V@reddit

Damn. That’s something I haven’t thought about in ages.

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cloudydays2021@reddit

I feel like I read this in a book once - maybe a Babysitters Club book? Anyway it didn’t make a damn but of sense to me then and it still doesn’t. I asked my mom about it at the time and she was just as confused.

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essinsee@reddit

I hadn’t seen this “face turn yellow” thing. We asked if a buttercup smelled like butter then jammed it in the person’s face when they went to sniff so it would leave yellow pollen all over their nose.

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ObligationJumpy6415@reddit

Yep, but it was always that when they sniffed the flower the petals get sucked closed on their nose and the pollen gets left behind.

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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

This was something that I’d heard of and seen people do, but I never understood why or what you should be looking for when doing it

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Plane-Fan9006@reddit

Has to be 45 yrs since I've thought of this. Core memory unlocked. Thank you so much for the huge smile!!!

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heyitscory@reddit

I didn't know it was a thing until I saw Tootle do it in a book, Tootle was a story about following rules and doing what's expected of you disguised as a story about trains. I would not feel so similarly duped and disappointed until I read Atlas Shrugged a couple decades later. Seriously, I'm autistic, so it's baffling how someone could write a sci-fi story about *TRAINS* with *that* much sex in it, and still be that aggressively boring and dumb.

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2nd_St@reddit

Did you also trick them into opening their mouths just to stick a dried dandelion in it? The ones with the wind-blown seeds. Not that I did or anything, um, just asking for a friend….

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Time_Sprinkles_743@reddit

🙄

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Time_Sprinkles_743@reddit

all my friends did this!! 🌼

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