Reality Is A Recursive Loop

I get a lot of nonsense pitches based on garbage data, but "83% of Americans have tried a butter board" is a new one pic.twitter.com/q5DYhrP3ll

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 11, 2022

I read this and, hoping to answer the question "What the hell is a "Butter board"?, I read the replies. Getting no further in my search, I turned to Google. And the first thing it wanted to direct me to upon entering the key words "butter board" was...this tweet. 

Venturing deeper into the hinterlands, I found out it's a TikTok phenomenon.  According to no less an august authority than the New York Times.

I still don't know what they are, but that's when I stopped asking.  I knew whatever the answer was, I wasn't interested.

I'd guess 90% of Americans are in the 17%.

— John Fenton (@jhfenton) October 11, 2022

I am quite comfortable in my ignorance.