If someone ever asks you how you are, you’re feeling on top of the world, you can say Alles in Butter (or im butter in some German dialects). It’s German for “Everything’s great” — literally, “All is in butter.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Everything’s Butter”
In German, if somebody asks you how you are and you’re feeling great, you can say, alles in butter, which means everything is in butter. It means you’re feeling terrific.
And the idea is supposedly that back in the old days, German restaurant owners would advertise that their kitchen only used the most expensive type of fat, which was butter.
So alles in buta.
Alles in buta.
Everything is in butter.
Oh, danke schön.
That’s very nice, Martha.
Bitte.
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