No.

Nie.

Thankfully my Polish inlaws don't subscribe to this tradition.

Wow, I'm of entirely Polish descent (even having a grandparent from Warsaw), and I've never heard of this one. My Mom does always make an Easter lamb cake, though.

Are you sure this isn't from (shudder) Paula Deen?

That's disgusting. Butter barf.

Aw come on, it's adorable. (Although at first glance I thought it was egg salad...)

it looks like a butter rodent !

Damn, that's a lot of butter.

We have one of these every year! There is some kind of flag that gets stuck in him too (the flag of Christ? I'm not sure). We buy ours at the store though - where the lambs are rather petite. It's a lot of butter - but it will (eventually) get used up.

Also - first year in memory that we're not having a lamb cake too.

aw, i kinda like the lamb! go, ron!

this is butter abuse and should be reported

That looks awwwwful.

We used to make one of these every year - my grandma had a metal mold that fit together in two halves. Fill each side with a stick of butter that had been left overnight then smash together and chill in fridge/freezer. Before dinner you would run it under cold water to release it and then the kids would all argue over who got to cut off the head to eat on their rolls and who ended up with the other end.

OK, I've seen the little butter lambs for sale at Jewel and Italian delis at Easter time, but this one is PLATTER SIZED. With butter...fur? Wool? What do we call this? And I do believe those are cloves as the eyes and nose. This thing has to be at least three pounds of butter.

Hmmm---apparently some of you have never been around the lambs at shearing time. This looks very much like a curly pile of lamb's wool, and is almost the same color.

I read the instructions: it uses one pound of butter and the platter is a small sandwich platter like you'd see in a diner.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

gross!!!!!!!!!!

This is ridiculous. I am Polish and have never heard of this. Like ever. Kielbasa, yes. Ham, yes, Eggs, yes. Mound of butter, no. Perhaps this is the punch line of yet another Polish joke?

A fast google search would have showed people the tradition of the Catholic Polish butter lamb. http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=239

I have to agree, looks like a butter rat, but its still cute. They actually sell the lambs here at our local Price Chopper and the other stores. Oswego has a huge Polish decedents in our community and the tradition has spread through the entire area among the Catholics.

Butter Lamb is my favorite! But we always bought ours in a mold from the store. And you don't eat it straight. You use it like regular butter. So, not gross.

I live in a very polish community, so I have to say heck yes, we have butter lambs at Easter. We usually make our own (granted, not as large as this one...usually only out of one standard stick).

now for those non-believers who think this is weird, you should come out on Dyngus day!

for a more appealing lamb use a pastry bag to make the wool on the body form, and come on people yes he used a pound of butter for what looked like a crowd but use what works for your gathering

Zumbooruk! Using a pastry bag is a great idea, and easier than pressing the butter through a tea strainer. I think the little guy is charming. I'm not Polish, but I love family and holiday traditions, no matter where they come from.

And FWIW---my Grandmother thought setting a stick of butter on the table was gauche. She wanted butterballs, especially on holidays.

this is BAAAAHd. Get it? BAAAHd?

Those in a hurry might want to consider making a butter Cross to honor the holiday. Directions: Use two sticks of salted butter, cut one stick in half. Place halves beside whole stick. Voila.

Speaking of lamb cakes, does anyone know the reasoning behind the smoking lamb cake?

It was featured on Cake Wrecks this morning, and it's been boggling my mind all day.