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

[cellio]

It occurs to me now that I had always assumed that the name "Butterball" was a reference to the noun "butterball"

That seems to track with what they're implying. We'll see when they respond to my email. Meanwhile, another commenter says no butter; they use vegetable oil for the fat.

(Oh, and hi and welcome. Are you here via the random-journal link? Just curious since we have no friends or interests in common, and the topology of LJ can sometimes involve strange twists.)

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

I found you on kayre's friends page, which I found through...well, I've lost track. That we have no friends or (explicit) interests in common is a plus, as far as I'm concerned. I can't imagine a worse friends list than one in which everyone thinks, looks, and lives the same way. (Actually, I can imagine something worse- a friends list in which everyone has everything in common, and no one can write an interesting sentence.)

Thanks for the welcome. I'll add you to my list. You are invited to add me back.

[cellio]

That we have no friends or (explicit) interests in common is a plus, as far as I'm concerned.

I agree. I always enjoy finding interesting people I wouldn't have found via referrals, or being found by them. Learn new things; see viewpoints you're not already intimately familiar with; expand your horizons. With the overwhelming numbers of angst-ridden 13-year-olds on LJ, though, random search is unlikely to produce the desired result. :-)

[profane-stencil.livejournal.com]

Friend of a friend of a friend of a friend (etc.) tends to work well for me- most people have at least one interesting friend (provided you avoid the teens and goths and exhibitionists, who tend to be easy to find, anyway...).