Author: Emily Kapp

Emily Kapp is a Chicago-based humor writer who has appeared in McSweeney's, Points in Case, Robot Butt, Little Old Lady Comedy, Funny-ish, and The Daily Drunk. You can read more of her work at emilykapp.journoportfolio.com.

I’ll be the first to tell you I couldn’t believe it wasn’t butter. Hell, I didn’t want to believe it. But after nearly a lifetime of living in denial, and an intervention put on by the caring women from Kroger’s dairy department, I finally had to man up to the facts – that this wasn’t the resulting byproduct of churned cow’s milk. This was a liar and a fake. Many people ask me how I didn’t know. How it had never once crossed my mind that maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t really butter, considering it literally says so in the…

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