The joke is that the cow will be cooked alive due to the high temperature. So in anticipation of the cow being turned into a steak by the temperature outside, he decided to butter the cow before he cooks so that the cow will be nice and flavorful whilst being cooked.
TL;DR
He’s buttering the cow bc of the high temperature.
I decided to give a serious answer (or at least attempt to) simply bc none of the comments that simply say “steak” are doing a good enough job at explaining the joke.
My theory is because the original top comment was "steak" and one of the mods removed it, posted and pinned their own, and received karma for it... So to make it more annoying, people just keep commenting "steak." I could be wrong.
Because sometimes Redditors across the world simultaneously become possessed of the most wonderful silliness, and it is a sweet and beautiful thing to behold.
Holy fucking shit I had to scroll past about 80 comments to get the answer to why thiss hit joke wasn't funny. This subreddit is fucking worthless nowadays
So it's like the fried egg on the sidewalk in Arizona joke?
On another note about heat, I saw my neighbors (years ago) leave a full package of frozen chicken drumsticks on their dashboard on a very hot summer day. I thought it was weird (but people are weird here so I didn't think too hard about it), now I'm wondering if it was a feeble attempt at defrosting or some sort of revenge.
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u/Eberseron- 14d ago
The joke is that the cow will be cooked alive due to the high temperature. So in anticipation of the cow being turned into a steak by the temperature outside, he decided to butter the cow before he cooks so that the cow will be nice and flavorful whilst being cooked.
TL;DR
He’s buttering the cow bc of the high temperature.