Ohio State Fair Butter Cow 2009
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That's butter? WOW!
I had my first of the season corn on the cob yesterday and pulled out the butter - YUM YUM YUM!
"Got Milk?". . .Is that sculpture really made out of butter? If it is, that would be quite amazing!
It's butter. It's 1800 pounds of butter, it's an annual thing.
This butter will become bio fuel.
I hope they keep it cool enough, that is too neat to go to waste.
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Maureen, That is TOTALLY amazing! I can't even imagine having the skill to do that. It is amazing they can do that with butter!!!
Really Amazing! Thanks for posting this, it's great!
Hi Maureen... The Ohio State Fair was the first State Fair I ever attended. It was back in 1988 and I remember getting a souvenir T-Shirt there that had a picture of a sheep on it. The caption said "Sheep Thrills". What a fun time!
Amazing. I so mis going to State Fairs - have been to them all over the Midwest and remember fondly, THE best cream puffs at the Wisconsin State Fair.
Sheep thrills.... I did not see the sheep.
Thanks all for the comments. It is in a refrigerated moisture controlled case... it is real butter. After the talented sculptors have worked on it and it's sat there for the whole fair it is not edible or not desirable as food so it is recycled into bio fuel.
Now that is pretty darn cool Maureen, the sculpture, the medium and how is will be used after the Ohio State Fair has concluded.
Sheep-thrills, you kill me.
Cynthia... "sheep thrills" was Steve Shatsky in Ohio in the late 80's.... Was there an 80s album by some group with big hair called Cheap Thrills? no that is a 60's album ... Cheap Trick is a band from the 70's and 80's?
Absolutey incredibe! I love this - the time and patience put intp this is amazing! I'm so glad you shared it!
Debi
What an incredible sculpture! I've never heard of this. I just recently gave up dairy so this is very overwhelming to me to see all this butter!
Sharon LOL over you being overwhelmed by the dairy. Ohio is NOT that big a producer of milk, 11th in the country but butter cows I believe are common at midwestern state fairs. I don't know if Wisconsin "America's Dairyland (but #2 in production) does one. I was just into junk food and rides when I went to the Wisconsin State Fair twice. This was only my second trip to the Ohio State Fair...
Debi Maybe Sunday I will share my photos of this years sand sculptures from the Dublin Irish Festival.
This year it had a horse, a sheep (hmmmm maybe I can use Steve's T-shirt "Sheep Thrills"), an Irish Wolfhound, a bird and a worm.... We are kind of sculptural in Central Ohio... yes we have the murals in Victorian Village but statues and sculpture are much more common the further out you get. Of course the hare's dancing at Ballantrae.
Thanks for pointing the 'sheep thrills' out Maureen. Oops.
Now your talkin'... I loves me some Janis & the cover art work by Robert Crumb was wild, just wild I tell ya!
Hey I missed the Sheep Thrills at the fair this year and the hogs... we actually walked up and walked away.
I am sure a 1980's T-shirt had to be a reference to music... or maybe that is just something sheep farmers say.
Maureen,
Those are really neat. I used to look forward to seeing those at the Illinois State Fair. :)
Steve
I must have been oblivious to butter sculputure growing up in Wisconsin.
I was kind of a margarine eater.
My mother "bootlegged" margarine from Illinois when I was a kid, you could not buy yellow margarine in Wisconsin when I was real young so we got it in Chicago and carried it across state lines. Here my fathers parents were dairy farmers in Wisconson and we were bootlegging margarine.... we would eat butter at the farm.