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Prompted by a recent comment in chat from the greatly esteemed ♦TimPost, we know that they have a wide variety of foodstuff in the Star Wars Galaxy, but do we have any canon in-universe confirmations that they have butter?

butter sculpture of Yoda

For reference, I'm aware that they have blue milk (that could theoretically be churned into butter) and that in the SW:III Script, Obi Wan cuts through droids

as if they were made of butter

Note also that the Wookieepedia article on butter doesn't appear to contain any canon sources, only outdated EU novels and comics.

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    Are we restricted to dairy butter, or are nut and seed butters fair game, too? For the purposes of describing the ease of slicing through droids, nut butters work equally well. – Praxis Aug 23 '15 at 16:25
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    @Praxis - Peanut butter would not. You cannot slice through it easily. – Valorum Aug 23 '15 at 16:43
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    That's true, you cannot slice through UK-made peanut butter easily. – Praxis Aug 23 '15 at 16:50
  • It's not a dupe because none of the linked articles in the alleged dupe question have a canon source. They're all from low-level EU novels and comic-books. – Valorum Aug 23 '15 at 22:04
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    @Richard Which do you reckon is easier to slice through: peanut butter or droids? – Rand al'Thor Aug 23 '15 at 22:11
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    @randal'thor - About the same, unless you've left it in the fridge overnight. In which case, the droids. – Valorum Aug 23 '15 at 22:21
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    When I first voted to close, I hadn't noticed that the question asks for canonical sources. The answer to the original question doesn't use canonical sources, so I have reversed my vote. – Wad Cheber Aug 23 '15 at 23:38
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    @Richard The dupe question is not asking for non-canon answers, though (it isn't tagged star-wars-legends). The fact that the answers only cite Legends sources doesn't mean the questions aren't duplicates. – Null Aug 24 '15 at 00:25
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    I’m not sure whether I’m more surprised that someone asked whether butter exists in Star Wars, or that the question is a duplicate. – Paul D. Waite Aug 25 '15 at 13:43
  • @pauld.waite - It's not a dupe though. Not only does the alleged dupe not ask the question, but none of the answers answer the question regarding canon sources. – Valorum Aug 25 '15 at 15:05
  • @Richard: sweet, now there’s only one to be surprised about. – Paul D. Waite Aug 25 '15 at 20:21
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    Butter Yoda was actually sculpted here in Toronto and displayed prominently at the Canadian National Exhibition: http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/cne/2009/08/27/butter_artists_keep_chillin_and_churnin.html – Praxis Sep 24 '15 at 18:11
  • After some consideration, I've decided to reopen. The question asks about canon sources for a specific foodstuff, not just a general descriptor of foodstuff in the SW universe. – Valorum Mar 11 '16 at 16:29
  • As I recall there was a notorious scene involving butter in the in-universe holofilm "Last Tango in Coruscant"... – DukeZhou Jan 05 '17 at 19:21

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Yes, they do.

In the new canon novel Tarkin, we find the following passage:

Teller nodded. “Burned through the pirates’ armor like a knife through butter and blew the ship apart.” He turned to point to toggles on the control console. “Same system here.”

This would seem to indicate that not only is butter found in the Star Wars galaxy but that it's a common enough substance that it's used as a metaphor for something easy to cut through.

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    Congratulations - this is post no. 100000 on SFF! :-D – Rand al'Thor Sep 07 '15 at 12:46
  • Also a metaphorical reference in "Aftermath". Reference to consumable 'nut butter' in "Heir to the Jedi" – NKCampbell Mar 11 '16 at 16:46
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    @NKCampbell - I wanted to avoid references by the omniscient narrator. – Valorum Mar 11 '16 at 16:53
  • @Richard - That raises an interesting question - is the omniscient narrator in-universe? Good news re: Heir to the Jedi - the narrator is Luke. – NKCampbell Mar 11 '16 at 16:58
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    @NKCampbell - It heavily depends on the book. As far as the novelisations are concerned, the narrator is omniscient but seems to be firmly embedded into the SW universe. – Valorum Mar 11 '16 at 17:13
  • or that just our "Human translation" for their substance which most resembles our "butter" :P – Skooba Mar 02 '17 at 21:01
  • @Skooba - Possibly, but that way lies madness. – Valorum Mar 02 '17 at 21:57
  • I don't think that necessarily means that butter exists in their universe in the way that we know it to in ours. What if the butter Obi-Wan and Teller are referring to is a term for a particularly soft alien species that is known to be easily killed with bladed objects? – DCOPTimDowd Nov 30 '17 at 19:06
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    @DCOPTimDowd - There are mentions of blue milk and blue milk cheese. Where you get cheese you get butter. – Valorum Nov 30 '17 at 19:14
  • I'm still not convinced – DCOPTimDowd Nov 30 '17 at 19:24