(smooth piano music)
- Have you ever heard the term truffle butter?
(man gasps)
- That's like a thing you, like truffle oil?
Like the stuff you put on popcorn at a fancy winery?
- Well, you might not wanna put it on popcorn
at a fancy winery.
Um...
- [Man] But truffles are mushrooms.
You know that, right?
- Yeah, but in this term it has something to do with
things comin' outta your butt.
- Whoa.
- Yeah.
- What?
- Yeah, it's a sex term.
- [Man] What? - [Quinta] It's really gross.
- Eww.
- [Quinta] Yeah, I know. - [Man] Quinta.
- I'm sorry I added that to this,
but I thought it was fair that you know
in case you ever came across it.
- Is that gross poop?
- Is poop any other thing but gross?
- Well there's definitely grosser poops you can have.
I feel like the less solid it is
the grosser inherently it becomes.
- Hmm, I'm more of a equality for poops.
I don't like ta...
- Is it like
you have sex with somebody in the butt,
then like...
- The mess around it.
- [Man] Well needless to say I was pretty grossed out,
so I ran a quick fact check and sure enough,
oh god it's even worse than I thought.
No, this is a UTI situation.
This a urinary tract infection just waiting to happen.
I mean, you're begging for it at this point.
Just no, no, don't do this.
No.
This is awful, no.
But I do need to see if the term is legitimate slang,
so I met with Geoff Nunberg,
a notable linguist and slang enthusiast.
Truffle butter.
- Truffle butter.
I don't think you'd want that word to mean
anything than what it sounds like.
- What do you think it sounds like?
- I just think it means truffle butter.
I'm just gonna use that randomly, you know.
Like you know, "You wanna go out
"to the movies tonight, truffle butter?"
- Well I would advise against it.
Do you wanna know what it is?
- Oh I have an idea what it must be.
Go ahead, no I have an idea it has to do with anal...
- I'm sorta more interested in you know...
- Anal, anal, anal, anal...
- So it's you're having anal sex
with a woman,
and then you stop having anal sex
and you start having vaginal sex,
and there is a residue around
this, this all, this area,
and that is truffle butter.
- It's another one of these words that exists,
excuse my saying it, in order to be a dirty word.
- Right, exactly.
- It isn't like you needed a word for that.
It's like what's something really dirty
that we can give a cool name to,right.
There was a lot of thinking that went into that.
- It's because Nicki Minaj and...
- Eww.
- Eh,well, hey.
- I'm just worried...
Now I'm gonna picture that with Nicki Minaj...
- Oh, okay, yeah I understand.
Don't smell it.
- Ew, I'll try not to.
- Don't smell it.
- She made a song, and that's what got truffle butter
into the Zeitgeist for this year.
- I like that you used truffle butter and Zeitgeist...
- And Nicki Minaj.
- In the same sentence.
That was impressive.
- [Quinta] I try, I try.
Thank you.
I don't see it lasting for a long time,
so we'll see what happens.
- Oh wow, we're fresh off the boat here.
- Brand new.
- This is out of a new song now.
- Yeah.
- How's that song go?
- I'm actually not..
- Familiar.
- Yeah.
I've heard it, but I couldn't repeat the rhymes to ya.
- [Man] So I needed to listen to the song
to understand the term,
but I thought it would best to listen
to Nicki Minaj's "Truffle Butter"
while eating actual truffle butter on popcorn.
So I bought some truffle butter, made some popcorn,
too much actually, and while melting the truffle butter
to pour on the popcorn I actually had
a bit of a discovery.
I do get it.
- [Voiceover] Ew.
- [Man] I know ew.
I know, ew.
But I'm just saying that I get it.
I was ready, so I prepared myself to take it all in.
♫Back home pretty ladies like yeah
♫Truffle butter on ya pussy
♫Cuddle buddies...♫
The song was
explicit.
♫That I eat it in the♫
They just said truffle butter on ya pussy.
- [Voiceover] Ew.
- That's what they said.
It was what they said,
but the song was actually pretty enjoyable
despite all that, and as the song came to a close
I was ready to declare my stance
on the term truffle butter.
I guess it's fine.
It's funny to talk about,
but it's super gross,
and it's definitely gonna give a girl a UTI.
Like no doubt about it.
You put poop where poop doesn't go,
people get sick.
That's just...
That's just a fact of life.
You can't put poop where poop doesn't go.
I feel like people shouldn't popularize the term
because I would hate for it to
popularize the act, you know?
You should never want truffle butter on your pussy.
♫Bring up the heat♫
- [Man] That's what they said.
Truffle butter on ya pussy.
You should never want that.
Never, nobody should want truffle butter on their pussy.
You shouldn't even want $11 an ounce
truffle butter on your pussy,
cuz restrooms don't belong there either.