Butter was a spread made from milk, particularly the fat it contained. Types of butter included yak butter (COMIC: Yonder... The Yeti [+]Loading...["Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)"]) and cocoa butter. (PROSE: Our Flavours [+]Loading...["Our Flavours (feature)"])
One of the three universal constants was toast always falling butter-side down, along with Planck's quantum of action and the reaction of someone entering the TARDIS for the first time. (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13 [+]Loading...["The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)"]) Indeed, on 11 June 2022, the reader of a guide for time travellers dropped their breakfast and the toast landed butter-side down. The author noted this as a fixed point in time and warned the reader to not attempt to avert it or they could destroy the universe. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary [+]Loading...["Time Traveller's Diary (novel)"])
Use of butter[[edit] | [edit source]]
Bread and butter was the combination of bread with butter; (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"]) similarly, buttered toast could be created by spreading butter onto toast. (TV:
) Butter was also seemingly used in chip sandwiches. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"]) Tea could be made with yak butter. (COMIC: Yonder... The Yeti [+]Loading...["Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)"]})
Butter and cocoa butter were also listed as ingredients of Millingdale's "Death By Chocolate" ice cream on their website's "Our Flavours" page. (PROSE: Our Flavours [+]Loading...["Our Flavours (feature)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
As a child, Amy Pond served the Eleventh Doctor bread and butter. He didn't like it and threw it away, saying, "And stay out!" (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
Learning that a Slitheen feared Clyde Langer's cold chip sandwich, Maria Jackson briefly suggested the Slitheen were allergic to butter before Sarah Jane Smith recalled seeing a Slitheen eating a sandwich. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor helped Layla make butter. (AUDIO: Dead Air [+]Loading...["Dead Air (audio story)"])
Tibetans made tea with yak butter in it to fortify them from the cold. (COMIC: Yonder... The Yeti [+]Loading...["Yonder... The Yeti (comic story)"])
Ruth made buttered toast for breakfast on her birthday. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
Butter universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Eleventh Doctor once visited a universe made entirely out of butter. (PROSE: Hello! [+]Loading...["Hello! (DWA 313 short story)"])