Jack Conaway was cutting peat for fuel in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, back in 2016 when he made a stinking discovery. Buried twelve feet underground was a twenty-two pound lump of butter estimated to be about 2,000 years old. The surprising thing about this finding is that it is not all that surprising. Hundreds of specimens of so-called “bog butter” have been located across the Emerald Isle. I’ve even seen one. It’s on display at the Butter Museum in Cork, Ireland, near the old