Minnesota State Fair's butter sculptor retires after 50-year run

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Why have an artist at all? I’ve googled it and found that there’s already a number of results for 3D printing with butter.

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Start spreading the news
I’m leaving today
I want to be a pat of it…

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Not Iowa?

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Yup, the princesses get to keep their butter head. Many of them host community corn roasts and use the heads to season the corn!

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I’m going to be really disappointed if her replacement isn’t Olivia Wilde.

“After the fair, each Princess Kay Finalist takes her sculpture home”

Do they really? As delighted as I’d be to see my likeness in butter… that would fade pretty quickly once I have to find something to do with it.

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It’s the midwest. We have many ways to use butter up relatively quickly. Heck, my grandma’s sugar cookie recipe calls for a full pound just for a single batch.

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That is the… THIRD most Minnesota thing I have ever heard.

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That job has pretty low churnover!

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