Lettuce with a slightly sweet and buttery flavour.
Characteristics:
- soft, loose head
- thick leaves
- evenly green
- tender
-oily, mildly flavoured leaves
Beth, a character in the webseries Bravest Warriors, is portrayed constantly dreaming of butter lettuce, and is seen in the episode "Butter Lettuce (Ep. 3 Season 1)" fantasizing about butter lettuce in the Holo-Jon.
Guy 1: What the hell is butter lettuce?
Guy 2: Lettuce that tastes of butter. What else, dude?
Guy 1: No shit. Have you actually tried it?
Guy 2: Nah, but I've seen it on Bravest Warriors.
Small and convenient packages of butter you find in restaurants and continental hotel breakfast. Butterlettes are often enclosed in easy to peel containers or wrapped in plastic.