not technically helpful...

[cellio]

I was trying to find out if Butterball turkeys actually contain butter, so I went to their web site. I could find nothing about ingredients/additives on the site, but I found this in the "about us" section: "In fact, the Butterball name was chosen to characterize a new, special breed of broad-breasted white feather turkeys, not because the turkeys contain butter, as many mistakenly believe."

Just a few more words could have removed the ambiguity. So it's a mistake to believe that the turkeys contain butter, or (what this technically says) that it's a mistake to believe that their name has anything to do with the possible presence of butter? Having failed to disambiguate with the resources they provide, I sent them email.

Odd detail: while they have a domain name (the obvious one, in fact), customer support has an AOL address.

Update: Reply received; no butter. (See comments.)

Comments

[dsrtao]

The solution is vegetable oil, salt, water, and sometimes MSG. (If it contains MSG, it will be mentioned on the packaging.)

ConAgra owns all sorts of things, including Hebrew National and Slim Jim.

[cellio]

Thanks. I don't have the turkey and thus its label (I wouldn't buy a non-kosher bird), and wanted to figure out before Thursday if I'm going to have a problem at my parents' house.