When I hear the word munchy I think crunchy but that isn't always the case. Sometimes I get the munchies for soft things like some fruits or soft pretzels! Or ice cream. Oh I love ice cream. There's never a bad time for ice cream, in my opinion. Have you ever had frozen grapes? It's not that strange and if you haven't tried frozen grapes I highly recommend it. Frozen, they have a slightly different texture and they are good! Of course, I'm a lover of grapes in many forms. Anyway. Sometimes the munchy I want isn't crunchy but just as delicious as some of the louder ones.
There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.
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